Smith, John A. 1947 Apr. 16- creator Jenks, Chris. text enk Londres (Inglaterra) Routledge 2006 monographic eng vi, 302 páginas The interdisciplinary field -- Complexity theory: a positioning paper -- From Descartes'conjecture to Kant's subject & the Computo -- Autopoiesis in cognitive biology -- Emergentism, evolutionary psychology and culture -- Prigogine's thermodynamics, ontology and sociology -- Critical developments -- Modernism and determinism: linear expectations and qualitative complexity analyses -- Complexity theory as a critique of postmodernism -- Cognition and the renewal of systems theory: redundant idioms and disputed positions -- The evolution of intelligence, consciousness and language: implications for social theory -- Complexity, language and culture: social systems in qualitative, i.e. not formal terms -- The fields of complex analysis: contemporary complexity theory -- The ethics of pragmatism: politics and post-structuralism in transition after the complexity turn -- The topology of complexity -- Re-interpreting global complexity as an ontology: human ecology. general John Smith y Chris Jenks. Incluye referencias bbiliográficas e índice. Ciencias sociales Filosofía Comportamiento caótico en sistemas Sistemas sociales Sociología 0415336503 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006003145.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006003145-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006003145.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006003145-d.html Co-BoUCM 130821 spa