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Giving Birth to a New Science – Setting the Agenda

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Inspired by the original thoughts of Thomas Kuhn (1970), we believe that crises are “a necessary precondition for the emergence of novel theories” (p. 77). To develop new theories, we first need to become aware that scientific theories are not mere reflections of nature.

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    PPCCS (Program Preparation Committee for the Cognitive Sciences) (2001).

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    See Morin (2001), p. 31.

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    Ilya Prigogine, as quoted in the Program Book of the Conference on Complexity Research, Liverpool, CCR Centre for Complexity Research 2005.

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    Cf. the report “Open the Social Sciences”, of the Gulbenkian Commission on the restructuring of the social sciences, by Wallerstein et al. (1996).

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    Retrieved on 2 October 2008 from: http://www.redebrasileiradetransdisciplinaridade.net/file.php/1/Artigos_dos_membros_da_Rede/Trabalhos_apresentados_no_II_Congresso_Mundial/Artigo_Mircea_Bertea.doc

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Jörg, T. (2011). Giving Birth to a New Science – Setting the Agenda. In: New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1303-1_4

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