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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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M. MULEJ observes that the reduccionist view of issues leads frequently to a variety of intricated and unexpected consequences, that may introduce new issues, many times difficult by themselves (1991, p.316-17).

Only by applying good criteria to determine the interdependence of causes, conditions and consequences can oversights be avoided.

MULEJ also underlines the necessity to guard oneself against superficial use of pseudo-system thinking, as for example:

- mastering fictitious wholes, but no factual wholes

- thinking "holistic", but behaving and acting "fragmented"

- use simple-sided ("tunnel vision") or merely dialectical understanding and enclose oneself unwittingly into such views

- dividing conceptual labor instead of networking

According to MULEJ, problems at the planetary level, for instance, are objects of "Conferences… arranged by the United Nations and make good conclusions, but actions are blocked by single-sided, tunnel vision kinds of interests"(p.326)

In conclusion, MULEJ proposes an "ethics of interdependence"

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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