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Author: Chris Jenks , John Smith
Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, the authors present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.
Part One: The Interdisciplinary Field
Chapter 1. Complexity Theory: a positioning paper.
Chapter 2. From Descartes’ Conjecture to Kant’s Subject & the Computo.
Chapter 3. Autopoiesis in Cognitive Biology.
Chapter 4. Emergentism, Evolutionary Psychology and Culture.
Chapter 5. Prigogine’s Thermodynamics, Ontology and Sociology.
Part Two: Critical Developments
Chapter 6. Modernism and Determinism: Linear Expectations and Qualitative
Complexity Analyses.
Chapter 7. Complexity Theory as a Critique of Postmodernism.
Chapter 8. Cognition and the Renewal of Systems Theory: redundant idioms and
disputed positions.
Chapter 9. The evolution of intelligence, consciousness and language: implications for social theory
Chapter 10. Complexity, Language and Culture: social systems in qualitative, i.e. not formal terms.
Part Three: The Fields of Complex Analysis: Contemporary Complexity Theory.
Chapter 11. The Ethics of Pragmatism: Politics and post-structuralism in transition after the complexity turn.
Chapter 12. The Topology of Complexity.
Chapter 13. Re-interpreting Global Complexity as an Ontology: Human Ecology
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