... System Model (“VSM”), Stafford Beer's systemic methodology for enterprise management (Beer, 1985; Jenkinson, 2022). It thereby contrasts farming models and their ways of seeing. Design/methodology/approach The interdisciplinary methodology synthesizes insights from five domains: epistemology...

...Raquel Marta Purpose Conceptually anchored in Morin’s complexity paradigm, this study aims to address the knowledge construction process in social work. It introduces epistemologically interactive social work and proposes poetic epistemological turbulence – a transdisciplinary framework comprising...

... the project within the highly transdisciplinary research landscape of the period, which is argued to be significantly due to the constructivist epistemology widely adopted across disciplines. Design/methodology/approach The paper mainly benefits from methods of architectural history, specifically archival...

...Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi Purpose Based on the reception of the principle of self-organization, the core of Heinz von Foerster's operational theories, I hypothesize how Heinz von Foerster's theory can be an orientation model for the epistemological problem of complexity. I have chosen this study...

... Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cybernetics Organizational structures Ecology Biology Complexity Epistemology In the creature, all is names, maps, and relation names- but still the name of the name is not the name, and the name...

... is to substantiate the fundamental epistemological thesis, which we conditionally formulate as meta-ontological concordance or synergy of “multiplicity/homogeneity/modeling”. In conclusion, we will discuss the fundamental limitations of modern mathematical modeling following its meta-ontological genesis...

...Pedro Jácome de Moura Jr; Cecília Lauritzen Jácome Campos Purpose This paper aims to build around an abductive argument: the epistemological value of the Arts-derived knowledge is equivalent and may be supplementary to that of science, contributing to the literature on the epistemological mistrust...

... as given and other ideas explored. There is little evidence that the soft ideas have been explored outside variations of SSM, this paper is intended to encourage more research into ‘soft’ systems. Frank Stowell can be contacted at: Frank.Stowell@port.ac.uk Action research Epistemology Systems...

... of it (sensus communinis in the sense that it founds a community). Action research Complexity Phenomenology Epistemology Systems theory Systemic thinking In this paper I continue to explore the question ‘Can Husserl’s phenomenology provide the intellectual framework of soft systems...

... insightfulness and innovation of the lunar programme would doubtless have been impossible based on deterministic control alone. Conversely, instances of design practice may be wrapped in second-order cybernetic rhetoric and nonetheless fall short of their epistemological claims and of achieving substantive...

... for designing social change and transformations. Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Language Epistemology Social change Herbert Brün Composing, whenever I wish to speak of the composer’s activity and the traces left by it. - Brün (2004a) In this paper, I shall tell what I think while...

...Philip Baron © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only There is a lack of epistemological considerations in religious studies methodologies, which have resulted in an on-going critique in this field. In addressing this critique...

... is a construct produced by the same system that is informed by the model. Whether the model is meant to be of an ontological/realistic character, a heuristic epistemological device, an ideal or something imported from other contexts does not alter this basic paradox of observing systems. Sverre Moe can...

... Social systems Communication Politics Emergence Epistemology Many facts from the long history of cybernetics demonstrate its relevance to political thought, theory and practice, as well as one of its central notions – the problem of political power. The link between cybernetic and political...

... Licensed re-use rights only Cybernetics Methodology Philosophy Epistemology Social systems Self-organization Sociocybernetics Second-order cybernetics In recent decades, Russian philosophy of science has recognized three stages in the development of science (classical, non-classical...

... regarding the chosen concept of designing and learning from the perspective of a constitutive epistemology. These were investigated as circularities and as distinctions in language. The variety of intended meanings and hence implicit entailments was examined from the perspective of implicit domains...

...Fulvio Mazzocchi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to refine the conceptual framework of complexity. For such a purpose, a number of epistemologically oriented remarks are provided, arguing about the relevance of second-order considerations for complexity and the importance...

... that it makes more sense to speak of the cybernetics of epistemology than the epistemology of cybernetics, the author argues that cybernetics is not one form of practice amongst others but an account of what it is to practice, understood as where we relate how we act to how we understand so that each informs...

.... Interpretations of the latter formalisms frequently involve epistemic concepts (e.g. measurement, observer, etc.). This, and the fact that information is being associated with the concept of knowledge, makes reflection on the ontological status of information and its role in epistemology a very urgent task...

... of information has undergone severe criticisms (Sarkar, 1996 ; Mahner and Bunge, 1997 ; Godfrey-Smith, 2000), and in response to such criticisms philosophers of biology have further refined this concept and investigated its epistemological foundations. Proponents of the teleosemantic approach (Sterelny...