| Hofkirchner W. (Ed.) 2005: Mark Davidson: QuerDenken! Leben und Werk Ludwig von Bertalanffys. Peter Lang, Wien. German version of: Davidson M. 1983: Uncommon Sense – The Life and Thought of Ludwig von Bertalanffy.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. |  |
Hofkirchner W. 2005: Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Forerunner of Evolutionary Systems Theory. In: Gu J., Chroust G. (eds.) The New Role of Systems Sciences 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)
Ossimitz G., Lapp C. 2006: Das Metanoia-Prinzip: Eine Einführung in systemisches Denken und Handeln. Hildesheim: Franzbecker.
Pouvreau D. 2006: Une biographie non officielle de Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972). BCSSS, Wien. (pdf-download)
Pouvreau D., Drack M. 2007: On the history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “General Systemology”, and on its relationship to Cybernetics – Part I:Elements on the origins and genesis of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “General Systemology”. International Journal of General Systems 36: 281-337.
Drack M., Apfalter W., Pouvreau D. 2007: On the Making of a System\r\nTheory 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.
Chroust G, Drack M, Müller K. 2008. Vienna – The Systems Archive – Dream or More? Pages 595–599 in Cybernetics and Systems 2008 – Proceedings of the 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research EMCSR, edited by Trappl R. Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies.
Hofkirchner W. 2009. “Community” – Where to from Here? From “networked individualism” towards “community networks”. Journal of Sociocybernetics 7:62-72.
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 C, Rauchenschwandtner H, Zehetmayer B. Vienna: Löcker.
Schliefnig M. 2010. Ein computationales Modell für die Allgemeine Systemtheorie (Computational General System Theory). PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology.
| Morin E. 2010: Die Methode: Die Natur der Natur. Vienna: Turia + Kant. German translation of Edgar Morin’s first volume of “La Méthode”. Translator: RE Zimmermann. Ed: W Hofkirchner. |  |
Chroust G, Schoitsch E. 2010. Systemic aspects of choosing basic architectural patterns in systems design. Pages 18-24 in Proceedings of 2010 General Assembly of International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, edited by Gu J, Xu J. IFSR and IASCYS.
Hofkirchner W. 2010. Teaching transdisciplinarity: the case of ICTs and society. Pages 26-29 in Proceedings of 2010 General Assembly of International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, edited by Gu J, Xu J. IFSR and IASCYS.
Zehetmayer B. 2010. Eine österreichische Version der Biopolitik: Wo der Anspruch alles erklären zu können wissenschaftliches Vorankommen erschwert. Pages 431-446 in:Verdrängter Humanismus, verzögerte Aufklärung. Auf der Suche nach authentischem Philosophieren. Philosophie in Österreich 1951–2000 Band VI, edited by Knoll R, Benedikt M, et al. Vienna: Facultas.
Hofkirchner W, Schafranek M. 2011: General System Theory. Pages 177-194 in Philosophy of Complex Systems, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 10, edited by Hooker C, Gabbay D M, Thagard P, Woods J. Amsterdam etc.: North Holland. Personal copy available on request.
