... on systems thinking – specifically, on the concepts of synergy, emergence, recursion and self-organization. Second, an approach is developed to help determine whether the efforts being made towards the SDGs can be expected to be effective (i.e., whether the world can hope to soon be a system that self...

...Ben Sweeting The purpose of this paper is to put forward a way that ethics may be applied recursively to itself, in the sense that how we speak and reason about ethics is an activity to which ethical considerations and questions apply. The paper is built on parallels between design...

... at: life.works@mac.com © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Recursion Language Learning Education Epistemology For several decades now, I have been involved in a not-for-profit educational foundation. I first encountered this society...

... that takes the recursive nature of consumer actions into account. Consumerism Standards Ethics Economics Social change Behaviour Recursion Corporations Philip Baron can be contacted at: pbaron@uj.ac.za © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Consumers are acquiring awareness...

...Prof Ranulph Glanville, Prof David Griffiths; Debora R. Hammond Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of recursive processes in the evolution of learning in both individuals and organisations, beginning with a clarification of the distinction between recursion...

.... It outlines an alternative conceptual framework that allows for the possibility of social construction of science, while preventing epistemological relativism. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes the cybernetic concept of recursion to show how science can bend back on itself, investigating its...