Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems

✍ Scribed by Paul Cilliers

Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 167
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique approach to understanding complexity and computational theory by integrating postmodern theory (like that of Derrida and Lyotard) into his discussion. Complexity and Postmodernism is an exciting and an original book that should be read by anyone interested in gaining a fresh understanding of complexity, postmodernism and connectionism.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Approaching complexity......Page 12
Introducing connectionism......Page 36
Post-structuralism, connectionism and complexity......Page 48
John Searle befuddles......Page 59
Problems with representation......Page 69
Self-organisation in complex systems......Page 100
Complexity and postmodernism......Page 123
Afterword: Understanding complexity......Page 152
Notes......Page 154
Bibliography......Page 160
Index......Page 166

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