Yearly Archives: 2011
“Ludwig von Bertalanffy 110″ Events
The BCSSS has organised two events on the occasion of the anniversary of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s birthday. • Public Lecture David Pouvreau, author of “The Dialectical Tragedy of the Concept of Wholeness – Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Biography Revisited” (2009), … Continue reading
European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) to be organised by the Bertalanffy Center
Robert Trappl, Professor emeritus at the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University of Vienna, was the convenor and chief organiser of the EMCSR held in Vienna every 2 years since 1972. After 20 conferences he handed … Continue reading
Scientific Council Extended
The Board of the BCSSS has nominated another four distinguished researchers as members of the Scientific Council. In alphabetic order these academics are: Prof. emeritus Mario Augusto Bunge from McGill University in Montreal, Canada; he was born in Argentine and … Continue reading
Call for Post-Doctoral Scholarships 2012 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Professor John Collier (Philosophy and Ethics) informed us about a Post-Doctoral Research Scholarships at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) open to a broad range of proposals in information theory, complex adaptive systems, related areas in biology, cognitive science and … Continue reading
Correspondence between Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Joseph Henry Woodger donated to the archive
Dr. Marshall W. Allen generously passed to the BCSSS the entire collection of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s letters to Joseph Henry Woodger (1894–1981) which he formerly received from Woodger in person for his respective studies. Thus the archive was supplemented by … Continue reading