Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 1998

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 1998

A systems approach to studies of creativity and consciousness.
March 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION A system tan be characterized as a pattern of elements in mutual interaction, where the boundaries that delimit it are dependent on the activity under consideration. There are many proposed psychological systems--some...

A systemic view of cognition: a contribution of Indian philosophic thought and tradition.
March 1, 1998... Keywords cognition; biology; consciousness; mind; manager; Upanishads; problem-solving INTRODUCTION Maturana (1980), in his seminal article on Biology of Cognition, makes the following statements about cognition, cognitive systems and...

Confucianism in action: recent developments in Oriental systems methodology.
March 1, 1998... Keywords systems methodology; methodological pluralism; East and West; cross-cultural learning; comparative systems studies; cultural influences; Oriental socio-cultural settings; Confucianism INTRODUCTION In 1986 the editor of a...

Thermodynamics and logical openness in general systems.
March 1, 1998... Keywords general systems; openness and closedness; dissipative structures; moving boundary problems; constraints; degrees of openness; undescribability; metric in models space INTRODUCTION The possibility of a theoretical analysis of...

Complex Systems Model of South-North Korean Integration.
March 1, 1998... Complex Systems Model of South-North Korean Integration. Edited by Yong Pil Rhee. Published by Seoul National University Press, Seoul, Korea, 1996, 283 pp. ISBN 89 7096 579 3 North and South Korea were separated in a postwar agreement between...

Beyond Heredity and Environment: Myrtle McGraw and the Maturation Controversy.
March 1, 1998... Beyond Heredity and Environment: Myrtle McGraw and the Maturation Controversy. Edited by Dalton G. Thomas and Victor W. Bergenn. Published by Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1995, 301 pp., ISBN 0 8133 2153 0 The eminent developmental psychologist...

The epistemology of the social sciences according to Michel Foucault (1926-1984). (Design of the Modern Inquiring System, part 14)
March 1, 1998... The Epistemology of the Social Sciences According to Michel Foucault (1926-1984): Part XIV of `Design of the Modern Inquiring System'(1) Michel Foucault was a contemporary French philosopher/ sociologist who died in 1984. His epistemology of...