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Social Systems as Moral Agents: A Systems Approach to Moral Agency in Business
In the context of business, interactions between individuals generate social systems that emerge anywhere within a corporation or in its relations...
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Exploring mental systems within regenerative agriculture: systems thinking and rotational grazing adoption among Canadian livestock producers
Regenerative agriculture is an approach that places soil conservation at the center of its practices. As part of this approach, regenerative...
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Simple Systems and Complex Systems
In relational system theory, the difference between a simple system and a complex system is that a simple system is predicative while a complex...
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An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems
Organisms live not as discrete entities on which an independent environment acts, but as members of a reproductive lineage in an ongoing series of...
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Anticipatory Systems
An anticipatory system is a natural system that contains an internal predicative model of itself and its environment, which allows it to change state...
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Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language
In their recent book, Ladyman and Wiesner (What is a complex system?, Yale University Press, 2020) delineate the bounds of the exciting...
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Exploring settler-Indigenous engagement in food systems governance
Within food systems governance spaces, civil society organizations (CSOs) play important roles in addressing power structures and sha** decisions....
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Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and...
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Preparing ethical review systems for emergencies: next steps
Ethical review systems need to build on their experiences of COVID-19 research to enhance their preparedness for future pandemics. Recommendations...
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(M, R) – Systems
(M, R) – systems are a class of relational cell models developed by Robert Rosen beginning in 1958. They are the first scientific models developed...
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Finite Hilbert Systems for Weak Kleene Logics
Multiple-conclusion Hilbert-style systems allow us to finitely axiomatize every logic defined by a finite matrix. Having obtained such...
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Earth Systems
This article examines the role of human agency in altering Earth Systems – the highly complex group of open systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,...
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Exploring the Methodological Foundation of A Systemic Approach in Grey Systems Theory
The article focusses on grey system theory and its methodological foundations. Key topics include: axiomatisation of the concept of grey, comparison...
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A Values Framework for Evaluating Alienation in Off-Earth Food Systems
Given the technological constraints of long-duration space travel and planetary settlement, off-Earth humans will likely need to employ food systems...
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Integrating Multicellular Systems: Physiological Control and Degrees of Biological Individuality
This paper focuses on physiological integration in multicellular systems, a notion often associated with biological individuality, but which has not...
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Equity and resilience in local urban food systems: a case study
Local food systems can have economic and social benefits by providing income for producers and improving community connections. Ongoing global...
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Marginality in the berry fields: hierarchical ordering of food and agrarian systems in Norway
Although being essential to sustaining food production, migrant workers continuously find themselves at the bottom of the social and power hierarchy...
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Why Systems Collapse
Wood and Sosis (Connor Wood and Richard Sosis, “Simulating Religions as Adaptive Systems”, in Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and...
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From complexity to systems
The interrelation between two theories, theory of complexity and theory of systems, is analyzed by using the chemical graph-theoretical concept. The...
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Computational systems as higher-order mechanisms
I argue that there are different orders of mechanisms with different constitutive relevance and individuation conditions. In common first-order...
