Manifest complexity: A foundational ethic for astrobiology?

Organisational Learning - Foundational Roots for Design for Complexity

This paper presents an overview of the field of organisational learning and claims that its foundational roots still have to be further developed and explored. This critique points to the potential of sociothecnical systems, complex systems theory and appreciative inquiry as building blocks from which an effective organisational learning design can emerge. The current challenges faced by organi...

A unifying concept for astrobiology

Evolution, broadly construed, has become a powerful unifying concept in much of science – not only in the biological evolution of plants and animals, but also in the physical evolution of stars and planets, and the cultural evolution of society and its many varied products. This paper (1) explores the bulk structure and functioning of open, non-equilibrium, thermodynamic systems relevant to the...

Astrobiology

If you were active on the web in July 1997, The spider bets that you surfed over to the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) web site to watch live feedback of the Pathfinder Mission to Mars. And if you haven’t recently returned to outer space via cyberspace, it’s time to visit some of the web sites dedicated to space research, to learn about the growing field of astrobiology. Astrob...

The need for a global health ethic.

e37 www.thelancet.com Vol 386 November 14, 2015 In the 1940s, the renowned Wisconsin, USA, conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote “The Land Ethic” as the culmination of his now celebrated work, A Sand County Almanac. In his essay, Leop old articulated the need for, and the ethical basis of, a new relationship between people and the land. He imagined the awakening of an ecological conscience that re...

A Proposed Ethic for Military Medicine