The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences (eBook)

Lucia Urbani Ulivi is a Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Ontology and Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy of the Catholic University in Milan, Italy. Her research interests mainly concern metaphysics, in the sense of the great classical tradition, updated through scientific contemporary references. Since 2009 she has been working on systems thinking, with particular attention to the interdisciplinary cooperation promoted by system theory. She has organized and coordinated since 2009 the research group about systemic thinking in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, that held more than eighty seminars and conferences whose results have been regularly published in Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016) and in the editing of three volumes: Strutture di mondo. Il pensiero sistemico come specchio di una realtà complessa, Il Mulino, Bologna 2010, 2013, 2015.

Chapter1. Phenomenological structural dynamics of emergence: an overview of how emergence emerges.- Chapter2. The world opacity and knowledge.- Chapter3. In search of organization laws: a new way of doing science?.- Chapter4. Is Present Ecology a Systemic Discipline? New Scientific Paradigms Lead to Bionomics.- Chapter5. Architecture and Systemics – a Brief Outline .- Chapter6. Climate Risks, Economics and Finance: Insights from Complex Systems.- Chapter7. The Legal Concept of the Environment and Systemic Vision.- Chapter8. The Living Body as a Model of Systemic Organization in Ancient Thinking.- Chapter9. Sentences as Systems. The Principle of Compositionality and its Limits.- Chapter10. Mind and Body. Whose? Philosophy of Mind and the Systemic Approach.