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Zusatztext The questions posed by the authors in their book are important. They are also a good reminder to constantly consider the dialectic between knowledge! authority! and its relationship with certainty. Informationen zum Autor Ian Angell is Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. His research interests include organizational and national IT policies, strategic information systems, computer security and systemic risk. He has written fourteen books, including The New Barbarian Manifesto (2000), and over a hundred research papers. Dionysios Demetis is a Research Associate at London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include anti-money-laundering schemes and related technologies in the banking sector, systems theory, computer security and the global consequences of information systems. Dionysios S. Demetis is a Member of the Scientific Board of the Geolab Institute at the Ionian University, Greece. Zusammenfassung This book seeks to deconstruct the process of scientific knowledge discovery and theory construction by scrutinizing the circumstances under which all scientific hypotheses are conceived. It concentrates on the interrelatedness of observation, paradox, delusion and self reference in scientific theory and method. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresPreface to the New in Paperback editionPreface1. Introduction2. Divination and Theory Construction3. Delusion4.Individual Allusions Contra Sensory Overload5. Patterns of Categorical Delusions6. Tidy Minds, Technology, and the Myth of Control 7. Systems Theory8. On the Premises of Observation9. The Frame of Observation & the Functional Differentiation of Science10. Higher Order Observations11. Asymmetry and Self-Reference12. Collapsing Systems13. The 'Reality' of the RealEpilogue: Science's First MistakeNotesReferencesIndex
