REMINDER about Symposium III (GST) of BAC 2001 towards Unity through Diversity

CALL for PAPERS and COMMENTS in order to participate in the Symposium III (GST)

"General Systems Theory as a Methodological Maxim"

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This Symposium is one of the events that has been planned as an Homage to
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy. It has been conceived as a FORUM for
presentation of papers, lectures, speeches, posters and also an Open Space
for self-organized debates and discussions. It will take place in the

International Conference on Systems Thinking Globally Concerned

Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference BAC 2001

UNITY <==> through <==> DIVERSITY

November 1-4, 2001

University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology

http://www.bertalanffy.org

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It aims at pondering why and how GST could and should prescribe better
foresight rather than hindsight; be used for crisis prevention in
preference to crisis management: may widen the scope of inquiry for asking
first whether a certain project, policy or action is justified,...

...knowing that GST emerged (as) "an exact doctrine of wholeness as a "pure
nature science" or "reine naturwissenschaft," ...a hypothetical-deductive
system of principles which followed from the definition of the wholeness of
an organismic (open) system, and led to conceive it, the GST, as "the
ultimate generalization of the organismic conception" that started in
Organismic Biology , was followed by an Organismic-systems Psychology
continued with organismic insights in societal systems and culminated
assuming possible an organismic model of society and considering necessary
a GST discipline or science about "principles common to the several levels
of organization"

Dear Reader, you are invited to send a 'position text ' (around 1000
words), arguments, comments and questions, for the Conversazione on GST
that may take place before the Conference.

Abstracts of papers (500 -1000 words), for being submitted in the
Conference, may also be sent for being considered to elohimjl
<elohimjl@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> and Michel Saint-Germain
<mgermain@uottawa.ca>

Your contribution is welcome in a normal e-mail message.

No attachments please

For taking part in the conversazione before the conference it is necessary
to become a subscriber sending the text:

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Everybody may visit http://www.bertalanffy.org/discus where all the
previous and following contributions for the debate will be included

Conference Fee:
Rich countries EURO 140
Poor countries EURO 70
Students EURO 50
Received on Tue Sep 4 18:26:15 2001