A great and generous mind passes on: Charles François and his legacy
In the beginning of August, sad news reached us about the passing of Charles François, a long term colleague and friend to the BCSSS. He passed away on July 31st in a hospital in Buenos Aires in the loving prescence of his family. François was one of the most important…
The ISSS Conference 2019 – A buzzing hub for the BCSSS and scientists throughout the systems sciences
After both deep conversations and playful workshops at the American Society for Cybernetics Conference, Ray Ison (BCSSS Board member) and Angelika Schanda (BCSSS Program Manager) traveled south, from Vancouver, British Columbia to Corvallis, Oregon to attend the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). This…
“Systems Thinking” at the First Summer School of Thinking by the Montparnasse Initiative
Stefan Blachfellner represented the BCSSS together with Helene Finidori at the first summer school program by the Montparnasse Initiative – School of Thinking, which was hosted by the Center for Research and Interdisciplinary (CRI) in Paris, France from 12th to 18th July 2018. The summer school focussed on the exploration…
New Volume of the Springer Book Series “Translational Systems Sciences”
We are pleased to announce the online publication of Volume 13 of the Springer Book Series “Translational Systems Sciences” by a team of authors of the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Philosophy. Update September 2018: with now more than 600 downloads! Under the title “General Systemology – Transdisciplinarity…
“General Systemology”. New volume of the Springer Book Series “Translational Systems” by the BCSSS Research Group “Systems Science and Philosophy”
In 2018 the next volume of of the Springer Book Series “Translational Systems” will be published by Dr. Jennifer Wilby, Julie Billingham, David Rousseau and BCSSS Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner, all leaders of the BCSSS Research Group “Systems Science and Philosophy”. With the heading “General Systemology. Transdisciplinarity for Discovery, Insight,…
The Future Information Society. New Book release
“The accelerated technological development of the modern society is not accompanied by an equally rapid growth in scientific insight, let alone foresight, into the impact of technology on the levels of society other than that of technological organization. […] The public use of the notion of “information society” has been reduced…
The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science presents a corner stone of its research agenda with the recently published Special Issue of Systema: General Systems Transdisciplinarity
The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science presents a corner stone of its research agenda with the recently published Special Issue of Systema: General Systems Transdisciplinarity, guest edited by Debora Hammond (Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University, California, USA; Past President, International…
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