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Systems Theory And The Metaphysics Of Composition, Martin Zwick
Systems Theory And The Metaphysics Of Composition, Martin Zwick
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Ideas from systems theory - recursive unity and emergent attributes - are applied to the metaphysical and meta-metaphysical debates about the ontological status of composites. These ideas suggest the rejection of both extremes of universalism and nihilism, favoring instead the intermediate position that some composites exist in a nontrivial sense - those having unity and emergent novelty - while others do not. Systems theory is egalitarian: it posits that what exist are systems, equal in their ontological status. Some systems are fundamental, but what exists is not merely the fundamental, and the fundamental is not merely the foundational. The status …
A Conversation On Theodicy, Martin Zwick
A Conversation On Theodicy, Martin Zwick
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The following is a dialog, published in The Global Spiral, January 9, 2008, about the idea of a systems-theoretic 'secular theodicy,' discussed in the author's "Towards an Ontology of Problems," "Understanding lmperfection," and (exemplified in a preliminary way in) "Incompleteness, Negation, and Hazard: On the Precariousness of Systems." The dialog was inspired by Susan Neiman's Evil in Modem Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2002.
Book Review Of, Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Genealogy Of Morality, R. Kevin Hill
Book Review Of, Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Genealogy Of Morality, R. Kevin Hill
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "On the Genealogy of Morality" by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Carol Diethe and edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson
Book Review Of, Nietzsche: Ethics Of An Immoralist, R. Kevin Hill
Book Review Of, Nietzsche: Ethics Of An Immoralist, R. Kevin Hill
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "Ethics of an Immoralist" by Peter Berkowitz
Book Review Of, Nietzsche's Philosophy Of Science: Reflecting Science On The Ground Of Art And Life, R. Kevin Hill
Book Review Of, Nietzsche's Philosophy Of Science: Reflecting Science On The Ground Of Art And Life, R. Kevin Hill
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life" by Babette Babich
Book Review Of, Schopenhauer, R. Kevin Hill
Book Review Of, Schopenhauer, R. Kevin Hill
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "Schopenhauer" by Christopher Janaway
Information, Constraint, And Meaning, Martin Zwick
Information, Constraint, And Meaning, Martin Zwick
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Despite the familiar and correct disclaimer that information theory (Shannon and Weaver, 1949) does not concern the semantic level of communication, the technical definition of information nonetheless bears directly and importantly on the subject of meaning. Meaning, at least in one sense of the word, is the recognition of constraint and is based on isomorphism of structure. Constraint reduces information yet information is also the very substrate of meaning. Meaning is thus the union of the informative and the intelligible (Moles, 1958), the reconciliation of this dialectical opposition being achievable in several different ways.
"A Philosophy For Complexity", Charles West Churchman
"A Philosophy For Complexity", Charles West Churchman
Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers
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