Drawing on more than a decade of research on the social implications of systems thinking, as well as practical experience in integrative, community-based approaches to education, this paper is an inquiry into philosophical and ethical considerations growing out of recent developments in systems thinking. In his foundational work on general system theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy distinguishes bet...

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The web site of Taylor & Francis, the publisher of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Arti® cial Intelligence, notes that the foundations of the company were laid in 1798 when Richard Taylor launched the Philosophical Magazine. It thus gives me a thrill to be able to write, more than two centuries later, the introduction to a JETAI special issue highlighting philosophical foundations o...

The philosophical foundations of statistics may be regarded as the study of the epistemological, conceptual, and logical problems revolving around the use and interpretation of statistical methods, broadly conceived. As with other domains of philosophy of science, work in statistical science progresses largely without worrying about “philosophical foundations.” Nevertheless, even in statistical...

The philosophical foundations of statistics may be regarded as the study of the epistemological, conceptual and logical problems revolving around the use and interpretation of statistical methods, broadly conceived. As with other domains of philosophy of science, work in statistical science progresses largely without worrying about “philosophical foundations.” Nevertheless, even in statistical ...

This paper explains the continuing relevance of Keynes’s philosophical thinking in terms of his anticipation of complexity thinking in economics. It argues that that reflexivity is a central feature of the philosophical foundations of complexity theory, and shows that Keynes employed an understanding of reflexivity in both his philosophical and economic thinking. This argument is first develope...