1 Introduction: System Theory and Chronotopology -- 2 Syntactic Languages: The Symbolic and the Diabolic -- 3 Chronos as a System of Qualitative Resonances: Chronosymbiosis and Computers -- 4 Anima et Themis Mundi: Psyglyphs, the Multilevel Language of Qualitative Time -- 5 Fons et Origo: Some...

I Foundations -- 1 Science, Systems Methodology, and the “Interplay between Nature and Ourselves” -- 2 On the Use of Structured Methodologies in General Systems Research -- 3 Fuzzy Systems Theory: A Framework for the Analysis of Humanistic Systems -- II General Methodological Approaches: The...

I Social Systems -- 1 System Theory: A Survey -- 2 System Cell and Classification -- 3 The Concept of an Objective -- 4 Paradigm of a Social System -- 5 Models of Social Systems -- 6 Collective Systems without Communication -- 7 Collective Systems with Communication -- 8 Autonomous Two-Person...

1. Science and Scientism -- 1.1. The Social Sciences and the Analytical Method -- 1.2. Hucksterism in Economics -- 1.3. The Systems Paradigm and the Re-emphasis of Interaction -- 1.4. The Status of Mathematical Research -- 1.5. General Systems Methodology and Empirical Research -- 1.6. The...