Thursday, March 17, 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by C.E. Shannon

A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by C.E. Shannon. Reprinted with corrections from The Bell System Technical Journal,
Vol. 27, pp. 379–423, 623–656, July, October, 1948.

Claude Elwood Shannon (1916–2001)By Solomon W. Golomb, Elwyn Berlekamp, Thomas M. Cover,Robert G. Gallager, James L. Massey, and Andrew J. Viterbi

The Shannon-Weaver model

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics

What is Hermeneutics? Romualdo E. Abulad, SVD, 2007

Hermeneutic Theory. Theories used in IS Research (wiki)
Paul Ricoeur (1998) The Hermeneutics of Action.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Kincaid, H. “Individualism and Holism,” in Durlauf and Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Kincaid, H. “Individualism and Holism,” in Durlauf and Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Kincaid, Two Images of Science (slides)

Philosophical foundations of the social sciences, by Harold Kincaid, 1993

Philosophical foundations of the social sciences, by Harold Kincaid, 1993

Individualism and Holism in the Social Sciences, by Michael Bradie, 2002

Individualism and Holism in the Social Sciences, by Michael Bradie, 2002

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)

Passages from General System Theory (1968)


General System Theory, therefore, is a general science of 'wholeness'.

(1) There is a general tendency towards integration in the various sciences, natural and social.

(2) Such integration seems to be centred in a general theory of systems.

(3) Such theory may be an important means of aiming at exact theory in the nonphysical fields of science.

(4) Developing unifying principles running 'vertically' through the universe of the individual sciences, this theory brings us nearer to the goal of the unity of science.

(5) This can lead to a much-needed integration in scientific education.

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