TY - JOUR

T1 - О перспективах междисциплинарного синтеза в социальных науках в конце XX столетия

AU - Федоров, Сергей Егорович

PY - 2021/2/12

Y1 - 2021/2/12

N2 - When in the last two decades of the 20th century new ideas on complexity had started to diffuse in social sciences, the economic thought became a typical area of interdisciplinary research in which the concepts of chaos, nonlinear movement, turbulence, and instability became best to apply. The article looks at how the approach of complexity has been implemented in the Santa Fe interdisciplinary project almost in it's first ten years between two major workshops on the economy as an evolving complex system. At first it concentrates on general issues of complexity discussed by natural and social scientists in Santa Fe Institute accepting all of them as certain bias for the epistemological breach. Then it turns to the several topics, which problematized the Santa Fe thought in particular and made it unique among the scholars who have adopted the new concepts proposed by complexity science. It also argues that the term of so called "restricted complexity" applied by some epistemologists to characterize a limited score of research topics in Santa Fe is far from being adequate. Although all developments were not equally successful, they did turn out to have enormous resonance in terms of extensive theoretical and practical pertinence and broad areas of application in social sciences even then the complexity approach was challenged by widely spread revision inspired by Niklas Luhmann legacy. Based on a body of work of Brian Arthur and John Holland and their colleagues from Stanford and Massachusetts where complexity has been understood in ways of system behavior, the article presents a complex adaptive system not as the opposite but as a source and confederate of certain order.

AB - When in the last two decades of the 20th century new ideas on complexity had started to diffuse in social sciences, the economic thought became a typical area of interdisciplinary research in which the concepts of chaos, nonlinear movement, turbulence, and instability became best to apply. The article looks at how the approach of complexity has been implemented in the Santa Fe interdisciplinary project almost in it's first ten years between two major workshops on the economy as an evolving complex system. At first it concentrates on general issues of complexity discussed by natural and social scientists in Santa Fe Institute accepting all of them as certain bias for the epistemological breach. Then it turns to the several topics, which problematized the Santa Fe thought in particular and made it unique among the scholars who have adopted the new concepts proposed by complexity science. It also argues that the term of so called "restricted complexity" applied by some epistemologists to characterize a limited score of research topics in Santa Fe is far from being adequate. Although all developments were not equally successful, they did turn out to have enormous resonance in terms of extensive theoretical and practical pertinence and broad areas of application in social sciences even then the complexity approach was challenged by widely spread revision inspired by Niklas Luhmann legacy. Based on a body of work of Brian Arthur and John Holland and their colleagues from Stanford and Massachusetts where complexity has been understood in ways of system behavior, the article presents a complex adaptive system not as the opposite but as a source and confederate of certain order.

KW - Complex adaptive system

KW - Complexity

KW - Interdisciplinary synthesis

KW - Santa Fe Institute

KW - Social sciences

KW - complexity

KW - interdisciplinary synthesis

KW - complex adaptive system

KW - social sciences

KW - COMPLEXITY

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107472491&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/d36a1788-723a-30da-b6e3-3d5666138969/

U2 - 10.18254/s207987840013583-0

DO - 10.18254/s207987840013583-0

M3 - Обзорная статья

VL - 12

JO - ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЙ НАУЧНО-ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ ИСТОРИЯ

JF - ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЙ НАУЧНО-ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ ИСТОРИЯ

SN - 2079-8784

IS - 1

T2 - Рождение социальной терминологии в интеллектуальном дискурсе Раннего нового времени

Y2 - 17 December 2020 through 18 December 2020

ER -