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With
this book Mark Davidson, writer, journalist and former professor for
communication science at the California State University in Dominguez
Hills, has set a monument for Bertalanffy and written an easy readable
introduction to System Sciences. He describes a school of thought that
is particularly suitable to meet the challenges of the global
information age.
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Hofkirchner
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For a Knowledge-based Society. Proceedings of the First World Congress
of the International Federation for Systems Research, Kobe, Japan,
CD-ROM (ISBN 4-903092-02-X). (pdf-download)
Pouvreau D. 2006: Une biographie non officielle de Ludwig von
Bertalanffy
(1901-1972). BCSSS, Wien. (pdf-download)
Pouvreau
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Systemology", and on its relationship to Cybernetics – Part I:
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281-337.
Drack M., Apfalter W., Pouvreau D. 2007: On the Making of a System
Theory of Life: Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's Conceptual
Connection. The Quarterly Review of Biology 82: 349-373.
Drack M., Apfalter W. 2007: Is Paul A. Weiss' and Ludwig von
Bertalanffy's system thinking still valid today? System Research
and Behavioral Science 24: 537-546.
Zehetmayer B. 2010: ... aber vom Menschen wissen wir nichts. Zur
systemischen Anthropologie Ludwig von Bertalanffys. Pages 197-212 in Transformationen der kritischen Anthropologie, edited by Zehetner
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