Complexity and post-modernism: understanding complex systems

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South African Journal of Philosophy 18 (2):258-274 (1999)
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This is a review article of Paul Cillier's 1999 book _Complexity and Postmodernism_. The review article is generally encouraging and constructive, although isolates a number of areas in need of clarification or development in Cillier's work. The volume of the _South African Journal of Philosophy_ in which the review article appeared also printed a response by Cilliers.

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10.1080/02580136.1999.10878187

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