The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory

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"Debora Hammond's The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five founding members - Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, James Grier Miller, and Anatol Rapoport - Hammond traces the emergence of systems ideas across a broad range of disciplines in the mid-twentieth century." The Science of Synthesis documents a unique episode in the history of modern thought, one that remains relevant today. This book will be of interest to historians of science, system theorists, and scholars in such fields as cybernetics and system dynamics.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780870817229
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • Publication date: 6/28/2003
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 0.92 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Quest for Peace in a Nuclear World 1
1 Behavioral Sciences in Postwar America 5
2 The Science of Life: Organization in Living Systems 31
3 Engineering, Management, and the Military-Industrial Complex 49
4 Cybernetics and Information Theory: Feedback and Homeostasis 63
5 Ecology and Social Theory: Structure, Function, and Evolution 77
6 Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972): General Systems Theory 103
7 The Chicago Behavioral Science Committee 143
8 Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993): Economics, Ecology, and Peace 197
9 The Society for General Systems Research: Establishment and Development 245
Epilogue 269
Bibliography 279
Index 297
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  • Posted December 14, 2010

    Rich history of an unknown but important topic

    General systems theory with its implications for virtually every aspect of human society represents one of the most important and least understood disciplines of our time. Its history in humanistic psychology and the mathematics of complexity is practically unknown, while the people who created this history are among the great minds of the 20th century. Here Professor Hammond, past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, illuminates this fascinating history as well as general systems theory itself.

    Allan Combs, Ph.D.
    Professor of Transformative Studies
    California Institute of Integral Studies

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