Introduction to Anticipation Studies

Roberto Poli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 275 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-63021-2 (ISBN)

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This book presents the theory of anticipation, and establishes anticipation of the future as a legitimate topic of research. It examines anticipatory behavior, i.e. a behavior that 'uses' the future in its actual decisional process. The book shows that anticipation violates neither the ontological order of time nor causation. It explores the question of how different kinds of systems anticipate, and examines the risks and uses of such anticipatory practices. The book first summarizes the research on anticipation conducted within a range of different disciplines, and describes the connection between the anticipatory point of view and futures studies. Following that, its chapters on Wholes, Time and Emergence, make explicit the ontological framework within which anticipation finds its place. It then goes on to discuss Systems, Complexity, and the Modeling Relation, and provides the scientific background supporting anticipation. It restricts formal technicalities to one chapter, and presents those technicalities twice, in formal and plain words to advance understanding. The final chapter shows that all the threads presented in the previous chapters naturally converge toward what has come to be called "Discipline of Anticipation"

Roberto Poli (PhD Utrecht) has been awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, teaches social foresight and philosophy of science, is fellow of WAAS-World Academy of Art and Science and STIAS-Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Poli is editor-in-chief of Axiomathes and the Handbook of Anticipation and he is the director of the master in Social Foresight. Poli has published five books, edited or co-edited more than 20 books or journal's special issues and published about 250 scientific papers. His present work is focused on the theory of anticipatory systems, i.e. system able to take decisions according to their possible future development.

Chapter 1. An Outline Map of Anticipation.- Chapter 2. Understanding the Future.- Chapter 3 Wholes.- Chapter 4 Time.- Chapter 5. Emergence.- Chapter 6. Systems.- Chapter 7. Complexity.- Chapter 8. The Modeling Relation.- Chapter 9. The Discipline of Anticipation.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Anticipation Science
Zusatzinfo	X, 275 p. 16 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	554 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Schlagworte	An Outline Map of Anticipation • Anticipatory Systems • Future Studies • Ontology • Personality and Social Psychology • Philosophy • Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology • Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology • Philosophy of the social sciences • Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality • Religion and Philosophy • Social & Political Philosophy • Social & political philosophy • The Discipline of Anticipation • The Modeling Relation • Understanding the Future
ISBN-10	3-319-63021-0 / 3319630210
ISBN-13	978-3-319-63021-2 / 9783319630212
Zustand	Neuware