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[edit] Select Recommendations (very partial list)
[edit] Organizations
American Society for Cybernetics (Founder, Heinz Von Foerster; President, Louis H. Kauffman)
Beyond (Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science) at ASU (Founder, Paul Davies)
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (Director, Wolfgang Hofkirchner)
Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies (CPNSS) at U. Copenhagen (Director, Claus Emmeche)
Evolution Complexity and Cognition (ECCO) Group (Founder, Francis Heylighen)
European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EuroEvoDevo) (President, Frietson Galis)
Foundational Questions in Physics & Cosmology (FQXi) (Directors, Max Tegmark and Anthony Aguirre)
General Evolution Research Group (GERG) (Founder, Ervin Laszlo)
Gibbs Society of Biological Thermodynamics (President, Tim Lohman)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) (President, Steven Gangestad)
Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Paris Ile-de-France (Directors, Marie Dutreix et. al.)
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine (Director, Donald Saari)
Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt U. (Seven Group Directors)
International Association for Computing and Philosophy (President, Luciano Floridi)
International Astrobiology Society (ISSOL) (President, Antonio Lazcano)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Acting Director, Sten Nilsson)
International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) (Founders, Myrdene Anderson et. al.)
International Society for Comparative Psychology (ISCP) (President, Robert Murphey)
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) (President, Jim Griesemer)
International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry (Director, Marc Henneaux)
KLI Evolution and Cognition Research (Founder, Konrad Lorenz; Scientific Manager, Werner Callebaut)
NASA Astrobiology Institute (Director, Carl Pilcher)
New England Complex Systems Institute (President, Yaneer Bar-Yam)
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Founders, Mike Lazaridis and Howard Burton)
Santa Fe Institute (Director, Geoffrey West)
SETI Institute (Directors, Jill Tartar and Frank Drake)
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences (President, Ivelisse Lazzarini)
Society for Developmental Biology (President, Richard Hartland)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (President, John Pearse)
Society for Machines and Mentality (President, Eric Steinhart)
Society for the Social Studies of Science (President, Michael Lynch)
Society for the Study of Evolution (President, Johanna Schmitt)
Systems Dynamics Society (Founder, Jay Forrester; President, James Lyneis)
[edit] Conferences and Workshops
Altenberg Workshops in Theoretical Biology. KLI Evolution and Cognition Research.
Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) 2008. SETI Institute.
Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines 1999. Interdisciplinary symposium exploring evolution outside of traditional domains, Dartmouth College.
European Conference on Computing and Philosophy 2009. Affiliate of IACAP, President, Luciano Floridi.
Frontiers of Modern Cosmology 2007. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Annual Conference. HBES.
Integrating Evolution, Development & Genomics (IEDG) 2008. Center for Integrative Genomics, UC Berkeley.
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Systems Sciences (ISSS) 2008. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology.
International Congress on Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB) 2008. IOSEB.
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) 2008. International Society for the Systems Sciences.
Joint European Thermodynamics Conference (JETC) 2007. Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines.
World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI) 2008. International Institute for Informatics and Systemics.
[edit] Journals
Advances in Complex Systems, multidisciplinary approaches to the study of complex adaptive systems at multiple scales.
Biological Cybernetics, experimental, theoretical and application-oriented aspects of information processing in organisms.
Biological Reviews, interdisciplinary, covers the entire range of the biological sciences. Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition, Werner Callebaut, Editor. Eco-evo-devo, cogno-evo-devo, and info-evo-devo relationships.
Cosmos and History, an open-access journal of natural and social philosophy. Promotes nontraditional and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Cybernetics and Systems, empirical research and models for a range of cybernetic systems, from artificial intelligence to social and economic systems.
Evolution & Development, journal of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Foundations of Science, exploring fundamental scientific concepts, principles and problems, with emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach.
Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, mathematical theory and applications of difference equations in discrete dynamical systems. Broad in scope.
Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, theoretical and empirical trends, models and methods in social sciences that contain a spatial dimension.
Minds and Machines, philosophical aspects of computer science, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and systems theory.
Open Systems and Information Dynamics, interdisciplinary physics and information-theory research in living and nonliving open complex systems.
Social Evolution & History, interdisciplinary studies in the evolution and development of human societies since their inception.
Technological Forecasting & Social Change, technological forecasting and technology's relationship to social and environmental systems.
[edit] Websites
Bordalier Institute, researching complex networks and cosmic evolution (Peter Winiwarter).
Cosmic Evolution, tutorial site on astrophysical evolutionary development (Eric Chaisson).
Principia Cybernetica Project, cybernetics and general systems theory (Valentin Turchin, Francis Heylighen et. al.).
The Operator Hierarchy, a general approach to particle hierarchy (Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis).
Universal Darwinism, tentative explorations of Darwinian process beyond biology (in the universe and culture) (John O. Campbell).
[edit] Discussion Lists
Everything List (Wei Dai, Since 1998, 330 members) "The set of all possible universes." Multiverse, ensemble, Many-Worlds discussions. Mathematics, astrophysics.
