Heinz von Foerster

The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name

Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics

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Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of Heinz von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Muller, Albert (Hrsg.) / Muller, Karl H. (Hrsg.) / Rooks, Elinor (Übers.) / Kasenbacher, Michael (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8232-5561-0
EAN: 9780823255610
Produktnummer: 14749491
Verlag: Fordham University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 236 S.
Masse: H15.2 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.6 cm 346 g
Gewicht: 346
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Heinz von Foerster is one of the most consequential thinkers in the history of cybernetics. Von Foerster wrote nearly two hundred professional papers, gaining renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology and family therapy. Albert Muller is Professor of History in the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna and the general secretary of the Heinz von Foerster Society. Michael Kasenbacher is a social scientist and translator. Karl H. Muller is Head of the Vienna Institute for Social Scientific Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM) and the president of the Heinz von Foerster Society.