Yearbook for Philosophy of Complex Systems

New at Duncker & Humblot from 2025!

Edited by Fausto Fraisopi und Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi

Release period 1 issues per year, Language: German, English, French, Spanish

The yearbook will be published in print and online in the Duncker & Humblot eLibrary.

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About the Yearbook

For several decades, complexity has occupied a pivotal position in science and culture, serving both to reshape our methodological approach to the world and to deepen our comprehension of its underlying dynamics.

The »Yearbook for the Philosophy of Complex Systems« is dedicated to the scientific, systematic and philosophical exploration of complexity as a core concept of our time, both from a socio-political as well as a scientific point of view The primary objective is to foster a comprehensive disciplinary engagement with complex systems within the domain of philosophical reflection. This endeavior involves examining non-linear dynamical processes and systems far from equilibrium through mathematical and physical approaches, investigating questions of organization and emergent behaviour from systemic-cybernetic perspectives, and exploring the application of the concept of »complexity« across various fields of study.

The Yearbook seeks to serve as a platform for interdisciplinary research in its broadest scope, emphasizing studies and approaches related to complexity and complex systems. It aims to bring together work conducted through diverse languages, methods, and conceptual frameworks, while maintaining a philosophical focus on the foundational aspects of knowledge. By means of historical (history of science and culture), theoretical (i.e. epistemology and theory of science) and media studies, an attempt will be made to implement and harmonise the concept and forms of complexity within the framework of current conceptual constellations and debates in philosophy, science, culture, society and their combinations.

The Yearbook aspires to describe a wide horizon of questioning and provide cross-point for scientific, artistic, and philosophical research guided by the principle of complexity. Its goal is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that explores innovative ways of thinking, develops new languages for communication, and envisions novel frameworks for describing complex systems. Positioned at the intersection of diverse research domains, it seeks to bridge disciplinary boundaries and cultivate a shared understanding of complexity across multiple fields of inquiry:

• History of science and ideas (with reference to the emergence of the modern paradigm of knowledge and its crisis, which has given rise to contemporary science);
• Epistemology and theory of science (with particular attention to the content and practice of modelling and transdisciplinarity);
• Philosophy of media and media studies;
• Ontology and metaphysics (especially the debate between reductionism and emergentism);
• Art and the aesthetic question of experimental forms of exploring complexity
• System-theory and theories of self-organisation (especially the manifestations of complexity: contingency, disruption, instability, etc.).

Editors

Fausto Fraisopi, AMIDEX Exzellenzprofessur »𝜏-co.re« – Transdisciplinarity and Complexity Research
Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Scientific Advisory Board

Clemens Apprich, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Timon Beyes, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Laurent Bibard, ESSEC Management School
David Chavalarias, CNRS – Complex Systems Institute Paris-IDF
Piero Dominici, University of Perugia – UNESCO
Elena Esposito, University of Bielefeld
Santo Fortunato, Indiana University Bloomington, Center for Complex Networks and System Research
Sara Franceschelli – ENS Lyon
Pier-Lugi Gentili, University of Perugia
Gabriele Grameisberger, RWTH Aachen – Kate Hamburger Kolleg ›Cultures of Research‹
Cliff Hooker, University of Newcastle (AUS)
Philippe Huneman, University of Paris I ›Pantheon-Sorbonne‹
Thomas Lecuit – CENTURI The Turing Center for Living Systems – College de France
Jean-Pierre Llored, Central Polytechnic School Casablanca
Giuseppe Longo, CNRS – Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris
Paul-Antoine Miguel, University of Toulouse
Maël Montevil – CNRS, Centre Cavaillès
Paul Pangaro, CMU, School of Architecture
Klaus Puettmann, Oregon University
Juliette Rouchier, CNRS – University of Paris Dauphine
Carlo Rovelli, University of Aix-Marseille – Centre for theoretical Physics
Alessandro Sarti, CNRS - EHESS
Jan Cornelius Schmidt, University of Darmstadt
William Seaman, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
Franck Varenne, University of Rouen
Erica Onnis, Cusanus University Rome

Content of the Issues

• Articles on specific topics: each issue of the Yearbook will focus on a topic in the philosophy and science of complex systems. The draft of an upcoming issue can be submitted to the editors for validation at any time by a researcher from the scientific community in an area of complexity science (or related fields). The proposal will then be sent to the members of the Scientific Advisory Board
• Free contributions: In order to ensure pluralism not only of methods but also of topics, each issue will include three articles whose topic does not coincide with the direct thematic focus of the issue.
• Book Reviews
• Interviews & conversations with researchers on complexity in different fields.

Call of Papers

The call is open to free contributions, book reviews and interviews & discussions.

Peer Review

All contributions, both those in the ›articles of specific topics‹ category and those in the ›free contributions‹ category, will be subject to a double-blind peer review process.