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Categories of Complexity
The problem of complexityComplexity is discussed in the frame of the new principle of systematization on the three categories: synchronic...
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Complexity
Complexity emerged as a paradigm for a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. Concepts from natural sciences, notably chaos theory,...
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Defending the Pathological Complexity Thesis
In this article, I respond to commentaries by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg and by David Spurrett on my target article “Complexity and the...
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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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From Complexity to Systems
This book sheds new light on the interactions between the science of complexity and the science of systems. Though both of these fields have been...
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Complexity, Valence, and Consciousness
Veit’s central claims are, first, that the function of valenced consciousness is to deal with pathological complexity, and, second, that pathological...
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Why computational complexity may set impenetrable barriers for epistemic reductionism
According to physicalism, everything is physical or metaphysically connected to the physical. If physicalism were true, it seems that we should – in...
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Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness
This article introduces and defends the “pathological complexity thesis” as a hypothesis about the evolutionary origins of minimal consciousness, or...
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Phenomenology and Complexity
This text aims to show how some substantial ontological conclusions, consistent with the notion of ‘complexity’, can be demonstrated through...
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Greatest Good for the Greatest Number – the Role of Managers’ Ethical Meaning-Making and Subjective Wellbeing Complexity
Despite the appeal of ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ as an ethical ideal for businesses to pursue, applying this utilitarian principle...
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Semantic Information and the Complexity of Deduction
In the chapter “Information and Content” of their Impossible Worlds, Berto and Jago provide us with a semantic account of information in deductive...
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Concept of Complexity
In this chapter, the basic origins from which the concept of complexityComplexity has been emerged are elucidated. The illustrative examples are used...
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Organizational complexity in big science: strategies and practices
Studies on ‘Big Science’ have shifted our perspective from the complexity of scientific objects and their representations to the complexity of...
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Does nature learn? Information integration and rare events in systems of increasing complexity
The environment is a continuous source of matter and energy, which dynamizes the adaptive processes of biological systems, so that these systems...
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Complexity of the Universal Theory of Residuated Ordered Groupoids
We study the computational complexity of the universal theory of residuated ordered groupoids, which are algebraic structures corresponding to...
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Handling Whistleblowing Reports: The Complexity of the Double Agent
Increasingly organizations have dedicated systems and personnel (recipients) to receive and handle internal whistleblower reports. Yet, the...
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The Significance and Complexity of Conscience
The concept of conscience continues to play a central role in our ethical reasoning as well as in public and philosophical debate over medical...
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Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Epistemic Complexity
This essay seeks to characterize one of the leading ideas in Bhaṭṭa Jayanta's Nyāyamañjarī, the fundamental role that the idea of complexity plays in...
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Parameterized Complexity of Propositional Inclusion and Independence Logic
We give a comprehensive account on the parameterized complexity of model checking and satisfiability of propositional inclusion and independence...
