Dear Colleague
I am writing to you today to let you know of a new 'complexity' book: Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from the North and South, edited by Fritjof Capra, Alicia Juarrero, Pedro Sotolongo and Jacco van Uden. The book will go on general sale on 16th January (2007). However, a $10 discount is being offered to those who pre-order today. This edited volume contains the following essays:
EDITORIAL - Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from the North and South - Alicia Juarrero, Pedro Sotolongo, Jacco van Uden & Fritjof Capra
Section 1 - Sources of Complexity: Science and Information
1. Complexity and Life - Fritjof Capra
2. Ecology, a Dialog between the Quick and the Dead - Robert E. Ulanowicz
3. Complexity and Environmental Education - Carlos J. Delgado Díaz
4. Key Issues Regarding the Origin, Nature, and Evolution of Complexity in Nature: Information as a Central Concept to Understand Biological Organization - Alvaro Moreno & Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo
Section 2 - Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications
5. Why We Cannot Know Complex Things Completely - Paul Cilliers
6. From Paradigms to Figures of Thought - Denise Najmanovich
7. Complex Dynamical Systems and the Problem of Identity - Alicia Juarrero
8. Complexity, Society, and Everyday Life - Pedro Sotolongo
Section 3 - Organizational Implications
9. Emergence Happens! Misguided Paradigms Regarding Organizational Change and the Role of Complexity and Patterns in the Change Landscape - James Falconer
10. Modeling of Social Organizations: Necessity and Possibility - Raimundo J. Franco Parellada
11. The New Complex Perspective in Economic Analysis and Business Management - Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Elena Olmedo Fernández, & Juan Manuel Valderas Jaramillo
Section 4 - Global and Ethical Implications
12. Complexity, Ideology, and Governance - Roger Strand
13. Globalization and the Complexity of Human Dignity - Ken Cole
14. The Consolations of Uncertainty: Time, Change, and Complexity - Carl A. Rubino
If you would like to pre-order this book securely online then please visit: http://isce.edu / Reframing_Complexity/ - you can also access the full volume editorial through this site.
Or, if you prefer, it will be available through all good book stores (including Amazon and Barnes & Nobel) in the next few weeks.
Further background:
Havana's Instituto de Filosofia's First Biennial International Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory, was held in January 2002 in Havana, Cuba's capital city. The seminar was aimed at familiarizing Cuban researchers and professors in a more direct way with some of the current trends - and widespread scope - of the expanding field of complexity thinking, affording them the possibility of personal contacts with some of the people engaged in that effort. The seminar was attended by specialists from fifteen countries, ranging from Chile to Australia along the West-East axis, and from Norway to South Africa along the North-South one. There were participants from developed and underdeveloped countries.
This book contains selected papers from the 'Complexity 2002' seminar, edited by Fritjof Capra (author of 'The Tao of Physics', 'The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems' and 'The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living'), Alicia Juarrero (author of 'Dynamics in Action'), Pedro Sotolong, and Jacco van Uden (author of 'Complexity and Organization'). The papers have been organized in four parts:
I. Sources of Complexity: Science and Information;
II. Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological implications;
III. Organizational Implications;
IV. Global and Ethical Implications.
The papers in Part I can be said to approach the phenomenon of complexity at a very basic level. Here the issues being addressed revolve around the very fundamental question of why the complexity sciences are so important: What are the most fundamental lessons to be learned from studying complex systems? Papers included in Part II engage in a broader, philosophical investigation of some of the most general ontological, epistemological and methodological implications of the complexity approach, showing how very old questions are currently being reformulated and/or reinterpreted in the light of complexity thinking. Papers that appear in Part III address various important issues about the links between complexity and social, organizational, business and management questions. Finally, Papers in Part IV return once again to more global implications of Complexity thinking, this time dealing with Ethical and Globalization issues of contemporary world.
ISBN: 0976681463
Pages: 280
Editors: Fritjof Capra, Alicia Juarrero, Pedro Sotolongo, and Jacco van Uden
Publisher: ISCE Publishing
Binding: Hardback
Price $65.99
Kind regards
Kurt Richardson
Director, ISCE Publishing
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