... – knowledge which is instantiated in texts, which in turn become integral to collections, and libraries. Hierarchy theory has its origins in the tradition of thought which has been sustained over time in process philosophy, natural philosophy and non‐reductionist complexity theory. This tradition...

...Luke Tredinnick Purpose This paper aims to explore the influence of complexity theory on the development of the web. It seeks to critique the role of complexity theory as a governing metaphor in the discourse of the web, and to examine whether complexity theory is able to provide an adequate...

... conversations, but this is yet to be considered at any depth in LIS. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Bonna Jones can be contacted at: bonna.jones@rmit.edu.au In the traditions of natural philosophy, process philosophy and latter day complexity theory, the question of reductionism begins...