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Anticipation and Futures Studies by Roberto Poli

Research paper thumbnail of Belief Systems and the Modeling Relation

Research paper thumbnail of Mastering Social Foresight

Research paper thumbnail of Social Foresight

Research paper thumbnail of Systems Dynamics Education

Research paper thumbnail of The Discipline of Anticipation (Miller Poli Rossel) - DRAFT

Research paper thumbnail of The Implicit Future Orientation of the Capability Approach - DRAFT

Research paper thumbnail of A Note on the Difference between Complicated and Complex Systems

Research paper thumbnail of The Many Aspects of Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of Overcoming Divides

Research paper thumbnail of The Complexity of Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of An Introduction to the Ontology of Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of Les signaux faibles: une propension sociale spontanée

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Bishop Hines 2012, Teaching about the Future

Research paper thumbnail of Review of R. Rosen, Anticipatory Systems 2012

Research paper thumbnail of The Spread of Hierarchical Cycles

International Journal of General Systems, 2005

We propose a relational method to study impredicative systems, which are natural systems that hav... more We propose a relational method to study impredicative systems, which are natural systems that have models containing hierarchical cycles. The method is formulated in category theory in terms of alternate descriptions and their functorial connections. This general theory of impredicative systems has implications in the biological, psychological, and social realms, from which we offer many exemplifications.

Research paper thumbnail of Evolution and Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of Anticipatory Systems and The Philosophical Foundations of Futures Studies

Research paper thumbnail of The Complexity of Self-reference A Critical Evaluation of Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems

Research paper thumbnail of From Simple to Highly Complex Systems (Baianu, Poli)

Research paper thumbnail of Steps Toward an Explicit Ontology of the Future

Research paper thumbnail of Belief Systems and the Modeling Relation

Research paper thumbnail of Mastering Social Foresight

Research paper thumbnail of Social Foresight

Research paper thumbnail of Systems Dynamics Education

Research paper thumbnail of The Discipline of Anticipation (Miller Poli Rossel) - DRAFT

Research paper thumbnail of The Implicit Future Orientation of the Capability Approach - DRAFT

Research paper thumbnail of A Note on the Difference between Complicated and Complex Systems

Research paper thumbnail of The Many Aspects of Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of Overcoming Divides

Research paper thumbnail of The Complexity of Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of An Introduction to the Ontology of Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of Les signaux faibles: une propension sociale spontanée

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Bishop Hines 2012, Teaching about the Future

Research paper thumbnail of Review of R. Rosen, Anticipatory Systems 2012

Research paper thumbnail of The Spread of Hierarchical Cycles

International Journal of General Systems, 2005

We propose a relational method to study impredicative systems, which are natural systems that hav... more We propose a relational method to study impredicative systems, which are natural systems that have models containing hierarchical cycles. The method is formulated in category theory in terms of alternate descriptions and their functorial connections. This general theory of impredicative systems has implications in the biological, psychological, and social realms, from which we offer many exemplifications.

Research paper thumbnail of Evolution and Anticipation

Research paper thumbnail of Anticipatory Systems and The Philosophical Foundations of Futures Studies

Research paper thumbnail of The Complexity of Self-reference A Critical Evaluation of Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems

Research paper thumbnail of From Simple to Highly Complex Systems (Baianu, Poli)

Research paper thumbnail of Steps Toward an Explicit Ontology of the Future

Research paper thumbnail of Ethics and Futures Studies

Research paper thumbnail of A Glimpse into the Sphere of Ideal Being: The Ontological Status of Values

Research paper thumbnail of Value-Wholes

Research paper thumbnail of Person and Value

Research paper thumbnail of On the Concept of Person: The Social Nature of Persons

Research paper thumbnail of Three Concepts of Person

Research paper thumbnail of The Structure of Motivation. A First Introduction

Research paper thumbnail of The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2008

Ophir distinguishes between evils and Evil. Evils concern concrete cases of disvalue, occurrences... more Ophir distinguishes between evils and Evil. Evils concern concrete cases of disvalue, occurrences of offence or of pain. Evil instead concerns the systematic production and distribution of evils. Evil is therefore an authentic dimension of reality; it is not a transcendent entity (p. 11). 1 Nevertheless, Evil is never apparent as such. What is apparent are only evils—in the plural—as specific entities which exist with their specific objective and subjective characteristics (p. 14). Some evils, from hypocrisy to arrogance to dishonesty to betrayal, ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Basic Problem of the Theory of Levels of Reality

Research paper thumbnail of Three Obstructions: Forms of Causation, Chronotopoids, and Levels of Reality

Axiomathes, 2007

The thesis is defended that the theories of causation, time and space, and levels of reality are ... more The thesis is defended that the theories of causation, time and space, and levels of reality are mutually interrelated in such a way that the difficulties internal to theories of causation and to theories of space and time can be understood better, and perhaps dealt with, in the categorial context furnished by the theory of the levels of reality. The structural condition for this development to be possible is that the first two theories be opportunely generalized.

Research paper thumbnail of Levels

Research paper thumbnail of Levels of Reality and Levels of Representation

Research paper thumbnail of Levels of Reality and the Psychological Stratum

Research paper thumbnail of The Theory of Levels of Reality and The Difference Between Simple and Tangled Hierarchies

Research paper thumbnail of Two Theories of Levels of Reality In Dialogue with Basarab Nicolescu

Research paper thumbnail of Husserl's Conception of Formal Ontology

Research paper thumbnail of Kazimierz Twardowski

Research paper thumbnail of General Theses of the Theory of Objects

Research paper thumbnail of Modes and Boundaries

Research paper thumbnail of Approaching Brentano's Theory of Categories

Research paper thumbnail of In Itinere: Pictures from Central-European Philosophy

Research paper thumbnail of Brentano and His School: Reassembling the Puzzle

Research paper thumbnail of Husserl's Conception of Formal Ontology

History and Philosophy of Logic, 1993

The concept of formal ontology was first developed by Husserl. It concerns problems relating to t... more The concept of formal ontology was first developed by Husserl. It concerns problems relating to the notions of object, substance, property, part, whole, predication, nominalization, etc. The idea of formal ontology is present in many of Husserl's works, with minor changes. This paper provides a reconstruction of such an idea. Husserl's proposal is faced with contemporary logical orthodoxy and it is presented also an interpretative hypothesis, namely that the original difference between the general perspective of usual model theory and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Meinong in His and Our Times

Onset Various considerations prompted the idea of undertaking this historical and conceptual reco... more Onset Various considerations prompted the idea of undertaking this historical and conceptual reconstruction of the theories developed in Graz at the turn of the nineteenth century by a group of philosophers and experimental psy- chologists led by Alexius Meinong. The majority of the contributions to this book adhere closely to the original texts in order to provide a reliable account

Research paper thumbnail of Twardowski's Theory of Modification Against the Background of Traditional Logic

Axiomathes, 1993

The distinction in contemporary philosophy between determining and modifying adjectives was intro... more The distinction in contemporary philosophy between determining and modifying adjectives was introduced by Brentano, but it first received thorough treatment only in Twardowski's book on the content and the object of presentations !. The problem of modifying expressions, as exemplified by modifying adjectives, is a point of particular difficulty in any attempt at rigorous analysis of language. I shall proceed as follows: I shall begin with a description of the general features of Twardowski's analysis; I shall then move to a brief reconstruction of some of the main ...

Research paper thumbnail of Object and Measurement in Mally's Untersuchungen

Research paper thumbnail of Logic, Theory of Science, and Metaphysics According to Stanislaw Lesniewski

Research paper thumbnail of The Concept of Empirical Reality Between Logic and Psychology: The Proposals of the Young Musatti

Research paper thumbnail of Iconic Graphs: An Exercise in Topological Phenomenology

Axiomathes, 1997

John Sowa has often pointed out that his proposal of conceptual graphs develops and updates intui... more John Sowa has often pointed out that his proposal of conceptual graphs develops and updates intuitions by Peirce, as well as by other thinkers in the areas of psychology and linguistics like Selz and Tesni~ re. To the ideas of the latter refers the Fields medal Ren6 Thorn, who developed catastrophe theory and made several innovative proposals for the application of catastrophist formalism to natural language. Thorn's ideas have been developed in specifically linguistic terms by Wildgen, while Petitot has paid particularly ...

Research paper thumbnail of Glancing at the Problems of Contemporary Ontology

Research paper thumbnail of Ontology and Knowledge Organization

Research paper thumbnail of Formal Ontology, Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation

Research paper thumbnail of Ontological Methodology

International Journal of Human-computer Studies / International Journal of Man-machine Studies, 2002

The interest in ontology may peter out unless three problems are addressed: What are the boundari... more The interest in ontology may peter out unless three problems are addressed: What are the boundaries of ontology? What types are there of ontology? What is the structure of ontology? After distinguishing three main kinds of information (ontological, quasi-ontological and non-ontological) and three types of ontologies (descriptive, formal and formalized), the paper presents a few basic ontological sub-theories (theory of particulars, of levels of reality, of wholes, parts and boundaries, and the intensive–extensive opposition for determinations). The methodology of domain analysis is further addressed and the distinction between a domain's structure and the scheme of the canonical item of a domain is introduced.

Research paper thumbnail of GFO-Bio: A Biomedical Core Ontology

Research paper thumbnail of Ontology and Multimedia

Research paper thumbnail of Andrew Basden, Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Ecological Literacy Leadership

Research paper thumbnail of W.E. Johnson's Determinable-Determinate Opposition and His Theory of Abstraction

Research paper thumbnail of Perspective Shifters

Research paper thumbnail of The Virtuality of Language

Research paper thumbnail of Nicolas A. Vasil'év (1880–1940)

Axiomathes, 1993

Nicolas Alexandrovich Vasil'~ v was born in the city of Kazan, on June 29, 1880, int... more Nicolas Alexandrovich Vasil'~ v was born in the city of Kazan, on June 29, 1880, into a highly educated family. His father was a prominent mathematician, and the editor of the series New ideas in mathematics. Since 1898 NA Vasil'~ v studied medicine in Kazan University. After graduating, he served as a country physician till 1904. In 1906, Vasil'~ v graduated also from the historical-philosophical department of the same university. In 1910 he became a Privatdozent of philosophy, in 1917 a docent and in 1918 a full professor of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Ontology for knowledge organization

Advances in Knowledge Organization, Jul 15, 1996

Abstract: The first main thesis of the paper is that an ontology is not a catalogue of the world,... more Abstract: The first main thesis of the paper is that an ontology is not a catalogue of the world, a taxonomy, or a terminology. If anything, an ontology is the general framework within which catalogues, taxonomies, and terminologies may be given suitable organization. The second main thesis is that reality is organized into diverse levels and there are sophisticated dependences among these levels and within them.

Research paper thumbnail of Complex Systems

Handbook of Anticipation

Traditional modes of system representation as dynamical systems, involving fixed sets of states t... more Traditional modes of system representation as dynamical systems, involving fixed sets of states together with imposed dynamical laws, pertain only to a meagre subclass of natural systems. This reductionistic paradigm leaves no room for final causes; constrained thus are the simple systems. Members of their complementary collection, natural systems having mathematical models that are not dynamical systems, are the complex systems. Complex systems, containing hierarchical cycles in their entailment networks, can only be approximated and simulated, locally and temporarily, by simple ones. Anticipatory systems are, in this specific sense, complex, hence this introductory chapter on Complex Systems in the Handbook of Anticipation.

Research paper thumbnail of Theory and applications of ontology (2 Volume-set)

Ontology is back at the forefront of philosophy, science and technology. These days ontology come... more Ontology is back at the forefront of philosophy, science and technology. These days ontology comes in at least two main fashions: the traditional philosophical understanding of ontology has been recently flanked by a new-computer-based-understanding of ontology. The current resurgence of interest in ontological issues displays a number of novel features, both among philosophers and among information technologists. Broadly speaking, the two research communities of philosophers and engineers have still not found a way to relate ...

Research paper thumbnail of Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications

Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the a... more Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of 'what there is'. Recently, however, a field called 'ontology'has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. The two fields have more in common than just their name. Theory and Applications of Ontology is a two-volume anthology that aims to further an informed discussion about the relationship between ontology in philosophy and ontology in information technology. It fills an ...

Research paper thumbnail of Levels of Reality and Levels of Representation

Résumé/Abstract Ontology, in its philosophical meaning, is the discipline investigating the struc... more Résumé/Abstract Ontology, in its philosophical meaning, is the discipline investigating the structure of reality. Its findings can be relevant to knowledge organization, and models of knowledge can, in turn, offer relevant ontological suggestions. Several philosophers in time have pointed out that reality is structured into a series of integrative levels, like the physical, the biological, the mental, and the cultural, and that each level plays as a base for the emergence of more complex levels. More detailed theories of levels have been developed ...

Research paper thumbnail of System dynamics education: becoming part of anticipatory systems

Purpose – This paper aims to present an overview of deep issues flanking the ideas of sys... more Purpose
– This paper aims to present an overview of deep issues flanking the ideas of system and complexity, and an overview of the mentioned course as a proposal for systems thinking.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper provides a discursive overview of systems and philosophical concepts related to the described course.

Findings
– The review offers a perspective of a super-system that includes the students, the lecturers and the context of their interaction, in which one may recognize a relational framework for social learning of a systemic sustainability.

Research limitations/implications
– The overview concerns only the actual intervention in the University of Trento.

Practical implications
– The described concepts and related philosophical discussion may contribute to the integration of system thinking in the future studies.

Originality/value
– The described intervention is a new Italian context and the integration of systems concepts with futures studies seems not to be commonly established.