Bøger af Robert Rosen

Compiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groundbreaking Life Itself-a work that influenced a wide range of philosophers, biologists, linguists, and social scientists. In Essays on Life Itself, Rosen takes to task the central objective of the natural sciences, calling into question the attempt to create objectivity in a subjective world and forcing us to reconsider where science can lead us in the years to come.

This strategy, derived from Newtonian mechanism, is embodied in reductionism: break what is complicated into simpler pieces, understand the pieces themselves, and reconstruct organisms from this understanding. In Life Itself, Robert Rosen argues that such a view is neither necessary nor sufficient to answer the question.

In its revised, expanded and updated second edition, this book remains the guiding foundation for the still-growing field of Anticipatory Systems Theory. Includes a new set of Prolegomena, a new chapter on the Ontology of Anticipation and more.

From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, Bobby in Naziland takes you on an unsentimental journey through one Brooklyn neighbourhood. Grappling to understand and come to terms with the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation and the historical weight of the Holocaust, the young Bobby provides a child''s view of the mid-20th-century American experience.

Illuminating results from a wide-ranging, landmark study of global leaders and their world-class companies that proves that managers must understand,