E-LOGOS 2011, 18(1):1-19 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.298

Firstness - As seen from the perspective of Complexity Research

Manfred Füllsack
Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research (ISIS), University of Graz

This paper presents a sort of phenomenology of complexity-theoretic reasons for rethinking the philosophical understanding of "firstness". Many of these reasons are well known in systems theory, mathematics, physics and other natural sciences but are - to my knowledge - not yet widely considered in the discipline where the quest for "the first" origins - in philosophy. The paper thus is meant as an invitation to philosophers to consider "firstness" from the perspective of complexity research.

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