Ergebnis für URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/LIBRARY.html [1]Principia Cybernetica Web
Principia Cybernetica Electronic Library
This electronic library provides free, downloadable copies of basic books on
cybernetics and systems science.
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There are relatively few good books on the domain of [2]cybernetics and systems.
Moreover, many of those books are out of print, and therefore difficult to find.
As part of the Principia Cybernetica mission of making cybernetics and systems
thinking better known, we have decided to republish some of these books
electronically, so that everybody can profit from their ideas. Most of the books
we selected are broad in scope, non-technical, and require little or no
mathematics.
The following books are as yet available in our library:
* [3]Claude E.Shannon (1948), "[4]A mathematical theory of communication," Bell
System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379-423 and 623-656, July and October,
1948.
A long, technical paper proposing the foundations of what was to become the
theory of information. (A [externallink.GIF] [5]note on this edition is
available elsewhere.)
* [6]W. Ross Ashby (1956): [7]An Introduction to Cybernetics, (Chapman & Hall,
London).
Still the only real textbook on cybernetics and systems, explaining the basic
principles with simple mathematics and exercises. In spite of its age, the
thinking behind this classic is still very modern.
* Ashby, W. R. (1960). [externallink.GIF] [8]Design for a Brain: The Origin of
Adaptive Behavior. Wiley.
* Ashby, W. R. (1981). [9]Mechanisms of intelligence: AshbyÕs writings on
cybernetics. Intersystems Publications.
* [10]Magoroh Maruyama (1963): The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying
Mutual Causal Processes, American Scientist 5:2, pp. 164--179.
A classic paper about the importance of positive feedback processes in causal
networks
* [11]Valentin Turchin (1977): "[12]The Phenomenon of Science. A cybernetic
approach to human evolution" (Columbia University Press, New York).
This is the book that introduced the [13]theory of metasystem transitions:
the evolutionary emergence of levels of control, from unicellular organisms
to human culture and society.
* [externallink.GIF] [14]Joël de Rosnay (1979): "[15]The Macroscope. A new
world scientific system", (Harper & Row, New York).
An easy to read introduction to the systems view of the world: background and
basic concepts, illustrated by examples in organisms, economy and ecology.
* [16]Francis Heylighen (1990): [17]Representation and Change. A
Metarepresentational Framework for the Foundations of Physical and Cognitive
Science, (Communication & Cognition, Gent).
A relatively non-technical analysis, inspired by systems theory, of the
abstract, cognitive structures behind basic theories of physics such as
quantum mechanics and relativity theory.
* Aerts, D., Apostel L., De Moor B., Hellemans S., Maex E., Van Belle H., Van
Der Veken J. (1994), [18]Worldviews: From Fragmentation to Integration, (VUB
Press, Brussels).
A short book defining the concept of a "[19]world view" and emphasizing the
need for interdisciplinary integration via a number of research proposals.
* [externallink.GIF] [20]John E. Stewart (2000): [21]Evolution's Arrow: The
direction of evolution and the future of humanity (Chapman Press, Australia)
An important contribution to the theory of metasystem transitions, explaining
how and why evolution progresses in the direction of cooperative systems of
greater scale and evolvability, from molecules via single-cell and
multicellular organisms up to global society.
* F. Heylighen (2001): "[22]Complexiteit en Evolutie", lecture notes in Dutch
for an introductory course at the VUB.
In addition to these monographs, which discuss a specific subject in depth,
Principia Cybernetica Web also offers a number of article collections:
* American Society for Cybernetics (1984): "[23]Glossary on Cybernetics and
Systems Theory" (unpublished report), now integrated into our hypertext
"[24]Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems"
* Krippendorff K. (1986): "A Dictionary of Cybernetics", an 80 p. unpublished
report, now integrated into our hypertext "[25]Web Dictionary of Cybernetics
and Systems"
* Heylighen F. (ed.) (1991): [26]Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica
Workshop (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels-New York).
This booklet contains short articles and abstracts presented at the Workshop
in Brussels. Paper copies are available from [27]F. Heylighen.
* Heylighen F., Joslyn C. & Turchin V. (eds.) (1995) : [28]The Quantum of
Evolution (special issue, Vol. 45:1-4, of "World Futures: the journal of
general evolution, published by Gordon and Breach, New York).
This volume is an edited collection of papers by invited authors on the
[29]Theory of Metasystem Transitions.
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[37]Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics"
[38]"The Macroscope", a book on the systems approach
[39]"The Phenomenon of Science", a book on MSTT
[40]About "Representation and Change"
[41]Special Issue on "The Quantum of Evolution"
[42]Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop
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* [44]Book suggestion, Comment by Rolf Nordlund
* [45]Hey, where is Wiener?, Comment by Edward Daniel Bukowski, PhD, MD
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