Structures of complexity : a morphology of recognition and explanation /: a morphology of recognition and explanation. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rupert Riedl.
• Authors: Riedl, Rupert
• Other Names: Stachowitsch, Michael translator.
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Issues Tackled Here: An Introduction; 1.1 The Topic at Hand; 1.1.1 Research into Complexity Today; 1.1.2 Complexity: Its Characteristics and Its Meaning; 1.1.3 Why, of All Things, Structures?; 1.2 On Methods; 1.2.1 Morphology, Systems Theory and Gestalt; 1.2.2 Structuralism and Functionalism; 1.2.3 On cognition, Explanation and EE; 1.2.4 Biology as the Conceptual Framework; Chapter 2: The World and Cognition as a Problem; 2.1 What Appears Reasonable to Us; 2.1.1 What Arose with Consciousness? 2.1.2 The Conceivable Validations of Perception and Knowledge Gain2.1.3 Forms of Perception Versus Communication; 2.2 How Knowledge Is Gained; 2.2.1 The Levels of Cognition; 2.2.2 What All This Can Tell Us About the World; 2.2.3 The Purpose Served by Such Knowledge; 2.3 The Nature of Our Knowledge; 2.3.1 Construction and Reality; 2.3.2 Emergence, Notions and Language; 2.3.3 Perceiving (Cognition) and Explaining; Chapter 3: The Systems of Cognition; 3.1 Conditions of Perception; 3.1.1 Perception Means Problem Solving; 3.1.2 Fundamentals of Association and Conditioning 3.1.3 The Transition to Cognitive Processes3.2 Processing Consecutive Coincidences; 3.2.1 The Composition of the Algorithm; 3.2.2 Wherein the Seeds of Success Lie; 3.2.3 Wherein the Deficiencies Lie; 3.2.4 How to Overcome the Deficiencies; 3.3 Processing Simultaneous Coincidences; 3.3.1 The Composition of the Algorithm; 3.3.2 The Reasons for Success; 3.3.3 The Deficiencies of the Program; 3.3.4 The Path to Overcoming These Deficiencies; 3.4 On Structures and Classes; 3.4.1 The Evolution of Memory; 3.4.2 Fields of Similarity; 3.4.3 On Structural and Class Hierarchies Chapter 4: Structuring the Perceived4.1 A Theory of the World; 4.1.1 The Hierarchic Structure of Things; 4.1.2 On Transformation and Emergence; 4.1.3 The Broadest Parameters; 4.2 The Order of Things; 4.2.1 The Process of Reciprocal Enlightenment; 4.2.2 The Three Fundamental Types of Complex Similarity; 4.2.3 The Four Fundamental Forms of Complex Order; 4.3 The Principles of Morphology; 4.3.1 The Theorem of Homology; 4.3.2 Type and Bodyplan; 4.3.3 A Theory of the Phene and Character; 4.4 The Principles of Systematics; 4.4.1 The Weighting Problem; 4.4.2 Optimizing the Class Concepts 4.4.3 The Nature of the Natural SystemChapter 5: The Systems of Explanation and Understanding; 5.1 The Conditions and Our Faculties; 5.1.1 The Preconditions; 5.1.2 The Hypotheses of Causes and Purposes; 5.1.3 Common Sense and Intuition; 5.1.4 The Psychology of Explaining and Understanding; 5.2 Changes in Cultural History; 5.2.1 The Beginnings in Our Culture; 5.2.2 Antiquity and the Middle Ages; 5.2.3 The Modern Era; 5.2.4 The Concepts of Understanding Today; 5.3 The Conditions of Explaining; 5.3.1 On Causal Explanations; 5.3.2 The Double Pyramid of Explanation
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 501; Complexity (Philosophy); Biocomplexity; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030130640; 3030130649
• Related ISBNs: 9783030130633; 3030130630
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019).
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