
Performing Complexity: Building Foundations for the Practice of Complex Thinking
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- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About This Book
- Contents
- About the Author
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction: Thinking Complexity
- 1.1 Modes of Thinking
- 1.2 Thinking Complexity
- 1.3 Thinking Complexity Complexly
- References
- 2 A Relational Framework for Complexity and Complex Thinking
- 2.1 What and Where Is Complexity?
- 2.2 A Relational Worldview for Complexity: From Differentiation and Integration, to Recursiveness and Emergence
- 2.3 The (Co)Evolution of Complexity: The Universe and Its Observers
- 2.4 Knowing Through Coupling
- 2.5 From Relational to Relative Complexity(Ies)
- References
- 3 Complex Thinking as the Complexity of the Coupling Observer-World: Processes and Outcomes
- 3.1 Complex Thinking as a Mode of Coupling
- 3.2 Dimensions and Properties of Complex Thinking
- 3.3 First and Second-Order or Emergent Complex Thinking
- 3.4 The Processes and Contents of the Thinking: Complex Thinking, Complexity Thinking and Complex Systems Thinking
- References
- 4 An Operational Framework for Complex Thinking
- 4.1 Structural Complexity
- 4.1.1 Structural Variety and Dimensionality
- 4.1.2 Relationality
- 4.1.3 Recursiveness
- 4.2 Dynamic/Process Complexity
- 4.2.1 Timescales
- 4.2.2 Dynamic Processes
- 4.2.3 Relativity, Ambiguity and Uncertainty
- 4.3 Causal and Explanatory Complexity
- 4.3.1 Complementary Modes of Explanation and Finalities
- 4.3.2 Historicity
- 4.3.3 Complex Circularity: Part-Whole Relations
- 4.3.4 Emergence
- 4.4 Dialogic Complexity
- 4.4.1 Dualities and Complementarities
- 4.4.2 Trinities and Levels
- 4.5 Observer's Complexity
- 4.5.1 Multipositioning
- 4.5.2 Reflexivity
- 4.5.3 Intentionalities
- 4.6 Developmental and Adaptive Complexity
- 4.6.1 Developmental Adaptive Value
- 4.6.2 Developmental Evolvability
- 4.7 Pragmatic Complexity
- 4.7.1 Pragmatic Value
- 4.7.2 Pragmatic Sustainability
- 4.8 Ethical and Aesthetical Complexity
- 4.8.1 Ethical Value
- 4.8.2 Aesthetical Value
- 4.9 Narrative Complexity
- 4.9.1 Differentiation and Integration
- 4.9.2 Identities
- 4.9.3 Flexibility/Openness
- References
- 5 Discussion: From Thinking to Performing Complexity
- 5.1 From Thinking to Performing Complexity
- References
- Postface
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