Objective
The objectives of this project are to contribute to a single and comprehensive transdisciplinary scientific research programme for investigating self-organization by elaborating selected epistemological, ontological and axiological implications, thus attempting at unifying the scattered approaches in the so-called science of complexity and to contribute to a scientific understanding of the "feedback-loop" of human action and reflection in a historical moment in which the destiny of the world system is at stake.
Since the sixties a paradigm shift in the disciplines of science, in system thinking and evolutionary thinking, and in philosophy and "weltanschauung" has been underway towards a Theory of Evolutionary Systems. Still there are gaps in theoretical knowledge to which philosophical theorizing may put forward heuristic offers.
Four research teams from the Vienna University of Technology, University Kassel, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Kiev National Shevchenko University will conjointly undertake three tasks including sub-tasks in the following fields to help to fill some of the gaps:
Task 1: RATIONALITY IN SCIENCE
Sub-Task 1.1: CAUSALITY AND EMERGENCE;
Sub-Task 1.2: PRINCIPLES OF SYNERGETICS;
Sub-Task 1.3: DESCRIPTION, EXPLANATION AND PREDICTION IN NONLINEAR STUDIES;
Task 2: UNIFICATION OF LANGUAGE;
Sub-Task 2.1: MODELS AND METAPHORS I: BOUNDARIES OF FORMALIZATION;
Sub-Task 2.2: MODELS AND METAPHORS II: THE VISUALIZATION OF THE NON-FORMALIZED;
Task 3: VALUES, NORMS, AND THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIETY;
Sub-Task 3.1: INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, AND CO-EVOLUTION;
Sub-Task 3.2: TRANSDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION;
Sub-Task 3.3: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
To exploit and disseminate the all over result of the project a final congress on "Human Strategies in Complexity" to be held in Vienna some months after the end of the project duration is envisaged as well as the publication of a reader.
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