Humanism under attack
In the framework of cooperation of the Bertalanffy Center with the Centre of Social Ontology, one research project was finalised (Social Morphogenesis – the proofs of the 5th volume are currently verified) and a new one was commenced. During the first week of January, the same group of co-workers at the CSO, International Advisory Committee…
Systems approaches to Information Ethics
Next week Tomáš Sigmund is guest at our center. He works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems Analysis that belongs to the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics at the University of Economics, Prague, and is preparing for his habilitation. Currently he is focusing on theoretical systems approaches towards information…
Transhumanism – Netizens – Information in Evolutionary Systems: Three sections at Gothenburg June 2017
The BCSSS Research Group on “Emergent systems, information and society” calls for papers and participation in three sections of the International Society for Information Studies Summit that will take place in Gothenburg from 12 to 16 June 2017. That Summit is the follow-up conference of the one that was held…
David Rousseau, Leader of the BCSSS Research Group “Systems Science and Philosophy” for 3 three years at the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
On the 19th and 20th of December 2016 David Rousseau, leader of the BCSSS Research Group “Systems Science and Philosophy”, visited the University of Hull for meetings with the leadership and senior members of the Centre for Systems Studies (CSS) as well as the editor of the journal “Systems Research…
Amber Elkins | PhD Scholar from Texas visits the BCSSS
In November 2016 Amber Elkins visited the BCSSS, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the fields “Epidemiology & Biostatistics” in the School of Public Health and “Industrial and Systems Engineering” of the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. As Expert in Computational Systems Modeling she supported BCSSS Managing Director Stefan…
The emcsr avantgarde 2016 Book of Abstracts is online!
Dear friends and colleagues, rejoice with us! The emcsr avantgarde 2016 Book of Abstracts is online! First of all we would like to apologize for the long time that passed until we finally can announce the completion of the genuinely exciting emcsr 2016 Book of Abstracts. All the more we…
Visiting Students and Outgoing Scholars | Cooperation with the Jiaotong University, Xi’an
Thanks to the cooperation with the Jiaotong University in Xi’an and a scholarship from the Chinese Research Council the BCSSS welcomed a new Phd student in autumn 2016. Liang Wang will stay in Vienna for two years. During his research on the notion of “Information” the BCSSS will support him…
The Vivarium. Forerunner of today’s Systems Biology
The Vienna Vivarium accommodated from 1902 the “Biologische Versuchsanstalt”, which in 1914 was incorporated into the Academy of Sciences. It was founded by Hans Przibram and others and one of the most popular scientists was Paul Kammerer whose research can be interpreted as a forerunner of epigenetic inheritance. Gerd Müller,…
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