Heinz von Foerster Symposium
Peter Fleissner’s presentation on “Systemic Thinking in Simulation Models – A Report from the Workbench” From 16 to 19 November 2007 the Heinz von Foerster Gesellschaft organized the 3rd International Heinz von Foerster-Congress “Systems / Systemics” (with special sections on Ernst von Glasersfeld and Gordon Pask) at the University of…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner speaks at Duino Castle, Italy
Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to participate in a workshop at Duino Castle, Italy. The title of the workshop was “Information – Theory and Practice”. It was organised by physicists Hans Grassmann and Gerhard Luhn, and philosopher Klaus Kornwachs and sponsored by Isomorph srl and Qimonda. The three-day workshop held 19-21…
“Berliner November 2007”
BCSSS participates at the conference “Berliner November 2007” (7.-10.11.2007) The “Berliner November” is organized by, the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kybernetik (GFK), the Leibniz-Sozietät, and the Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information (GPI) and takes place in Berlin from Wednesday 7.11. to Saturday 10.11.2007. Venue on Wednesday and Thursday is the Humboldt-Universität…
Wittgenstein Symposium
Peter Fleissner on “Information Society: A Second ‘Great Transformation’?” From 5 to 11 August 2007 the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium on the “Philosophy of the Information Society” took place at Kirchberg am Wechsel. Peter Fleissner gave an invited speech on “Information Society: A Second ‘Great Transformation’?” where he analyzed the…
Austrian Chapter of the Club of Rome
Peter Fleissner’s introductory speech The Austrian Chapter of Club of the Rome together with the German EU Presidency organized a workshop on “Life in Cyberspace – The Creation of Social Capital in Virtual Worlds”. On June 26 2007 Peter Fleissner presented there the introductory speech on “Social Life in Virtual…
Lists of content of BCSSS archive now online
In the section Research – The Bertalanffy Archive, lists of all the letters, books & journals, and miscellanea which were found in the Bertalanffy estate are now available for download.
“General Systemology”
David Pouvreau and Manfred Drack wrote an article with the title: On the history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “General Systemology”, and on its relationship to cybernetics. Part I: elements on the origins and genesis of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “General Systemology” It is available online. Click here.
Thanks to Charles Francois
We are grateful to Charles François, the editor of the “International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics”, who donated part of his library to the BCSSS. In February 2007 we were able to open the boxes, which were containing lots of volumes of system theory journals and proceedings together with the…
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