Systems Approaches: A Technology for Theory Production
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چکیده
1. Review of Subject Articles 2. Epistemologies of Production 2.1 The Instrumental Shift of Subject/World Relation 2.2 Thinking Techniques 2.3 Science as “Technics” 3. Genealogy of the System 3.1 The Machine Metaphor 3.2 The Idea of Machine 3.3 The System Approach as a Logic Machine 4. Systems Theory as Technology 4.1 Subject and Object as (Social) Products and Producers 4.2 Towards a Complex Concept of Technology 5. Epistemic Implications of Systems Approaches 5.1 Meta-technology 5.2 Epistemic Complexity in Science 5.3 Society, Non-trivial Machines, and Self-observation Acknowledgements Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketches
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تاریخ انتشار 2011