About the Journal
For several decades, complexity has occupied a pivotal position in science and culture, serving both to reshape our methodological approach to the world and to deepen our comprehension of its underlying dynamics.
The »Yearbook for the Philosophy of Complex Systems« is dedicated to the scientific, systematic and philosophical exploration of complexity as a core concept of our time, both from a socio-political as well as a scientific point of view The primary objective is to foster a comprehensive disciplinary engagement with complex systems within the domain of philosophical reflection. This endeavior involves examining non-linear dynamical processes and systems far from equilibrium through mathematical and physical approaches, investigating questions of organization and emergent behaviour from systemic-cybernetic perspectives, and exploring the application of the concept of »complexity« across various fields of study.
The Yearbook seeks to serve as a platform for interdisciplinary research in its broadest scope, emphasizing studies and approaches related to complexity and complex systems. It aims to bring together work conducted through diverse languages, methods, and conceptual frameworks, while maintaining a philosophical focus on the foundational aspects of knowledge. By means of historical (history of science and culture), theoretical (i.e. epistemology and theory of science) and media studies, an attempt will be made to implement and harmonise the concept and forms of complexity within the framework of current conceptual constellations and debates in philosophy, science, culture, society and their combinations.
The Yearbook aspires to describe a wide horizon of questioning and provide cross-point for scientific, artistic, and philosophical research guided by the principle of complexity. Its goal is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that explores innovative ways of thinking, develops new languages for communication, and envisions novel frameworks for describing complex systems. Positioned at the intersection of diverse research domains, it seeks to bridge disciplinary boundaries and cultivate a shared understanding of complexity across multiple fields of inquiry:
- History of science and ideas (with reference to the emergence of the modern paradigm of knowledge and its crisis, which has given rise to contemporary science);
- Epistemology and theory of science (with particular attention to the content and practice of modelling and transdisciplinarity);
- Philosophy of media and media studies;
- Ontology and metaphysics (especially the debate between reductionism and emergentism);
- Art and the aesthetic question of experimental forms of exploring complexity
- System-theory and theories of self-organisation (especially the manifestations of complexity: contingency, disruption, instability, etc.).
