BCSSS Lectures “Uncommon Sense in Thinking Society”
Lectures by Michel Saint-Germain and Franz Hörmann’ The Bertalanffy Center invites to attend the 2 lectures: – Michel Saint-Germain, Professor emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa: “The result-oriented organisation: a critical look from a Bertalanffian perspective” (paper, presentation) – Franz Hörmann, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics,…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner invited to Oxford to talk about sustainability from the perspective of complexity
The Japanese Uehiro Foundation and the Oxford Uehiro Centre invited Hofkirchner to the 2010 Uehiro/Carnegie/Oxford Conference on Information Ethics: Future of Humanities. He is going to speak about “Sustainability and self-organization: sustainability seen in the perspective of complexity and systems science and ethical considerations”. Other speakers include Toru Nishigaki, Rafael…
Lecture by Carl Smith
DBL Interactive – A new on-line tool for Bringing Bayesian Networks to the world, Carl Smith (School of Integrative Systems, The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA; President Elect of the Australian Bayesian Network Modelling Society) DBL Interactive – A new on-line tool for Bringing Bayesian Networks to the world Bayesian networks…
Manfred Drack invited to a talk at the IFK
The International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) invited Manfred Drack to give a talk on: Weiss, Bertalanffy, Riedl – A Viennese School of System Thinking in Biology
Chroust and Hofkirchner attending IASCYS General Assembly in Chengdu
Chroust and Hofkirchner attended the first General Assembly of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from 25. to 27.10.2010. The School of Business and Administration of the Sichuan University hosted the event. Chroust and Hofkirchner gave lectures, Chroust on “Systemic aspects of choosing…
Ervin László and Edgar Morin first members of our BCSSS Scientific Council
The board of the BCSSS unanimously appointed Ervin László and Edgar Morin members of the Scientific Council of the BCSSS. They are the first ones appointed to the council. Ervin László published in 1972 “The Relevance of General Systems Theory” for Ludwig von Bertalanffy on his 70th birthday, “The Systems View…
FWF Grant for Manfred Drack
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) approved a three years grant proposal by Manfred Drack in co-operation with the BCSSS. The title of the project is: Systems in Biology.
First German translation of Edgar Morin’s method
Morin E. 2010: Die Methode: Die Natur der Natur. Vienna: Turia + Kant. German translation of Edgar Morin’s first volume of “La Méthode”. Translator: RE Zimmermann. Ed: W. Hofkirchner.
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