On 13 November 2025, Hanspeter Loewen, Oberstudiendirektor i.K. i.R. (in the picture above on the left), presented Dr. Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor i.R., the Heinz von Foerster Prize for Organisational Cybernetics that is awarded by the Society for Cybernetics, Information…
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Under that title, a special issue of the journal Biosystems was released recently. More than twenty contributions have been edited by Pedro C. Marijuán, Bioinformation and Systems Biology Group at the Aragon Health Sciences Institute in Zaragoza, Spain, and Andrei…
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The research paper Social relations: building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy, just published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science, gives an impression of how the General System Theory intended by Bertalanffy can be interpreted in a realist and critical sociological perspective.…
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