Theoria cum praxi et bonum commune (Leibniz): System theory, informatics and a wise society for all
Rathaus Tiergarten, Berlin-Moabit (photo: Wikimedia Commons) The Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) invites the group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” to present itself at a one-day colloquium of their two classes (Natur- und Technikwissenschaften; Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften). The group is a joint endeavour of the Arbeitskreis of the LS, the Research…
Ethics for computer scientists
Besides other commitments when being in Vienna, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of the BCSSS “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” Research Group, gives for invited faculty on 14 October 2015 a seminar at the Institute for Design and Technology Assessment of the Vienna University of Technology. Its title is: Preparing Next Generation of Software…
The Turing machine model and “natural computation”
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of our recently established Research Group on Emergent Systems, Information and Society, will visit Vienna and give a talk on A Taxonomy of Computation and Information Architecture. The question is how the turing model of computation relates to self-organisation of natural systems: Are they different or do they…
„Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society“. A talk at IDIMT by Wolfgang Hofkirchner
In September Wolfgang Hofkirchner, leader of the BCSSS Research Group “Emergent System, Information and Society”, was invited to this year’s Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) in Podebrady, (Czech Republic) to talk on „Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society“. For further information about IDIMT 2015 please click here!
BCSSS contributes to the International Society for Information Studies Summit 2015
The Bertalanffy Center was – besides many other organisations – co-organiser of the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015, held at the Vienna University of Technology and including a floating part on the Danube. The focus of that event that attracted almost 400 people, mainly scientists, but also entrepreneurs and activists, was on…
Social scientists discuss norms and values in today’s society
The ten members expert group at Margaret Archer’s Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) met for the fourth time to discuss problems of so-called “social morphogenesis”. This time the meeting was scheduled for the first week of January at the Cardiff Business School which is part of Cardiff University in Wales….
Mechanisms as causes for societal development
Social scientists are inclined to talk of social “mechanisms” to designate that which brings about effects in the course of development. “Mechanisms” are the causes for the reproduction of society and its transformation as well. However, “mechanisms” are not strictly deterministic as mechanical causations might be. They depend on the…
The Morphogenetic Project and Self-Organisation
Margaret Archer, the Director of the Centre for Social Ontology at the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, is the leader of the so-called Morphogenetic project. The morphogenetic approach is a social theory attempt to understand change in society in the perspective of critical realism (follow that link: http://cdh.epfl.ch/page-37105-en.html). The usage of the term…
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