Halima El Badaoui, Siddartha Khastgir, Mariat James Elizebeth, Shufeng Chen, Takuya Nakashima, Paul Jennings According to the latest provisional statistics released by the UK Department for Transport, Great Britain recorded 1,633 road deaths in 2024, representing a slight increase from 2023 and raising concerns about safety progress, which indicates that preventable fatalities remain a challenge. The deployment of advanced mobility […]
Via Russ Gaskin and his piece: Making Together: The Emergence of Dialogic Systems Change Are we seeing two different models of change, or a fundamental evolution of the field? Russ Gaskin Jan 22, 2026 https://horizonsofchange.substack.com/p/dialogic-systems-change Making Together: The Emergence of Dialogic Systems Change/ PDF Exploring two systems change mental models in philanthropy Jewlya Lynn PolicySolve […]
Centre for Systems Studies (CSS) NewsletterJanuary 2026 Issue – Systems Prospects Welcome from the Editors Dear ReadersWelcome to the first newsletter of 2026 from the Centre for Systems Studies at Hull. As we step into this new year, we do so with optimism and purpose.We find ourselves in the middle of several interconnected challenges in the […]
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀Excellent paper discussing how to understand complex systems (eg biology) where levels not only interact but intersectStrong critique of Simon’s notion of near-decomposable systemshttps://griesemer.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/69-griesemer-2021-levels-perspectives-thickets.pdf… Luiz Pessoa on X: “𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Excellent paper discussing how to understand complex systems (eg biology) where levels not only interact but intersect Strong critique of […]
Query on Twitter: https://x.com/FibraDomingos/status/2015231522089910656 I got a good response from ChatGPT so am sharing here in the hope of provoking some more: There is a small but real ‘bridge literature’ that takes Rosen’s notion of complexity (impredicativity, closure to efficient causation, and the modelling relation) and places it into live debates in philosophy of science […]
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