INQUIRING SYSTEM (Design of the modern)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1712 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
Under this general title J.P.van GIGCH, J.L. SNELL and the argentine authors E. HERRSCHER, P.E. PAVESI and P.F.J. PAVESI, published a series of papers in “Systems Research”(1988-1997). Their general aim has been to investigate the historical roots of the concept of inquiring system in the works of philosophers, scientists and even novelists of the past.
Among these appear Thales (600 B.C.), Lull (1232-1315), Descartes (1596-1650), Condillac (1715-1780), Kant (1724-1804), Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836), Cassirer (1874-1945), Hesse (1877-1972), Schr dinger (1887-1961), McCulloch (1898-1969), Feynman (1918-1988)
van GIGCH also considered the new approaches resulting from the introduction of the computer (1988). He may still conceivably return to this last subject since the accelerated evolution of the recent years.