The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision [Kindle Edition]
Author: Fritjof Capra | Language: English | ISBN: B00I0UNCES | Format: PDF, EPUB
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Download electronic versions of selected books The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution. The implications of the systems view of life for health care, management, and our global ecological and economic crises are also discussed. Written primarily for undergraduates, it is also essential reading for graduate students and researchers interested in understanding the new systemic conception of life and its implications for a broad range of professions - from economics and politics to medicine, psychology and law. Books with free ebook downloads available The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision [Kindle Edition]
Download electronic versions of selected books The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution. The implications of the systems view of life for health care, management, and our global ecological and economic crises are also discussed. Written primarily for undergraduates, it is also essential reading for graduate students and researchers interested in understanding the new systemic conception of life and its implications for a broad range of professions - from economics and politics to medicine, psychology and law. Books with free ebook downloads available The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision [Kindle Edition]
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- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 12, 2014)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00I0UNCES
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Systems seemed to find a home whatever my career choice. In the chemistry lab, in the church, in the family, and in computer science - each required an understanding of systems theory. Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi’s The Systems View of Life is attempt to meld the concept of systems into the far ranging fields of physical science, biological science, social science, and religion. The success with which this is done might depend on the reader’s interest and training, but the book makes for interesting reading regardless of the reader’s background.
Claiming to be an undergraduate textbook, Capra and Luisi’s text explores the history of scientific thinking from ancient times forward. The authors attempt to move the student through the rolling attitudes that seem to bounce between a very mechanistic approach (i.e. the entire universe is a machine) and a holistic approach (i.e. the universe is more than its whole).
Recognizing that the philosophy of science seems to be a pendulum that moves between these to extremes, the book stresses that the 21st century is in the much more holistic than we have seen in the immediate past. That being so, there is room in the current scientific landscape for a spiritual (not necessarily religious) perspective of our world. The authors point out that there are fundamentalists that are both religious (e.g. Christian or Muslim) and scientific (e.g. Richard Dawkins) who attempt to exclude each other from valid scholarship.
Though coming from Cambridge University Press, the book is not a specifically Christian (or even religious) view of science or a scientific view of religion.
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