RT Article
T1 Whiteheadian Societies as Open-Ended Systems and Open-Ended Systems as Whiteheadian Societies
JF Process studies
VO 41
IS 1
SP 64
OP 85
A1 Bracken, Joseph A. 1930-2024
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1823944167
AB In this essay I defend two interrelated theses. The first is that Whiteheadian structured societies are best understood as open-ended systems akin to those currently being proposed in the natural and social sciences by Stuart Kauffman, David Sloan Wilson, and Niklas Luhmann. The second is that an open-ended system is best understood in terms of an ongoing interplay of subjectivity and objectivity, which I derive from a modest rethinking of the workings of a Whiteheadian structured society.
DO 10.2307/44798996