From 1997 to 2001, Karl H. Müller was head of the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. Currently. Until 2014 he was head of WISDOM, Austria’s infra-structural centre for the social sciences and President of the Heinz von Foerster Society. Now he is Director of The Steinbeis Transfer Center New Cybernetics, Vienna, Austria and Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
His main research interests range from issues in complex modeling within the social sciences and from interdisciplinary analyses of innovation processes in science, technology and economy to the history and the current potential of inter- and transdisciplinary research, to the frontiers of second order cybernetics and radical constructivism or to the newly emerging risk-potentials for contemporary societies in general.
His recent publications reflect these various interests, namely Market Expansion and Knowledge Integration. Double Movements within Modernity (Frankfurt:Campus-Verlag 1999), Socio-Economic Models and Societal Complexity. Intermediation & Design (Marburg:Metropolis-Verlag 1998), Advancing Socio-Economics (together with J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth) (Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield 2002), An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory 1958 – 1976 (Wien:edition echoraum 2007) (together with Albert Müller), Gordon Pask, Philosopher Mechanic. An Introduction to the Cybernetician’s Cyberrnetician (Wien:edition echoraum 2007)(together with Ranulph Glanville), The New Science of Cybernetics. The Evolution of Living Research Designs. Vol. I. Methodology (Wien:edition echoraum 2008), Modern RISC-Societies. Towards a New Paradigm for Societal Evolution (Wien:edition echoraum)(together with Ivan Svetlik et al.) and The New Science of Cybernetics. The Evolution of Living Research Designs. Vol. II. Theory (Wien:edition echoraum 2011).
From 1997 to 2001, Karl H. Müller was head of the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. Currently. Until 2014 he was head of WISDOM, Austria’s infra-structural centre for the social sciences and President of the Heinz von Foerster Society. Now he is Director of The Steinbeis Transfer Center New Cybernetics, Vienna, Austria and Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
His main research interests range from issues in complex modeling within the social sciences and from interdisciplinary analyses of innovation processes in science, technology and economy to the history and the current potential of inter- and transdisciplinary research, to the frontiers of second order cybernetics and radical constructivism or to the newly emerging risk-potentials for contemporary societies in general.
His recent publications reflect these various interests, namely Market Expansion and Knowledge Integration. Double Movements within Modernity (Frankfurt:Campus-Verlag 1999), Socio-Economic Models and Societal Complexity. Intermediation & Design (Marburg:Metropolis-Verlag 1998), Advancing Socio-Economics (together with J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth) (Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield 2002), An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory 1958 – 1976 (Wien:edition echoraum 2007) (together with Albert Müller), Gordon Pask, Philosopher Mechanic. An Introduction to the Cybernetician’s Cyberrnetician (Wien:edition echoraum 2007)(together with Ranulph Glanville), The New Science of Cybernetics. The Evolution of Living Research Designs. Vol. I. Methodology (Wien:edition echoraum 2008), Modern RISC-Societies. Towards a New Paradigm for Societal Evolution (Wien:edition echoraum)(together with Ivan Svetlik et al.) and The New Science of Cybernetics. The Evolution of Living Research Designs. Vol. II. Theory (Wien:edition echoraum 2011).
In recent years a significant number of differentiations of science have been put forward like Science I & II, first-order science & second-order science, Science 1.0 and Science 2.0, first-order cybernetics second-order cybernetics, etc. All these separations point to great transformations as well as to new architecture of the overall science system. The lecture will be divided into three main parts.
- The first part lays out the new environments of second-order science and emphasizes the new configuration of first-order science as the science as we know it and the two new levels and types, namely zero-order science with its concentration on research infrastructures and second-order science which operates on the building blocks from first-order science like models, theories, test results, theoretical concepts or other inputs or outputs from first-order science.
- The second part focuses on new and highly innovative perspectives for second-order science which go very far beyond well-established practices like meta-analyses or systematic literature reviews.
- Finally, the third part focuses on a significant new major reflexive inversion within the science system, namely to a shift in epistemic modes from a traditional approach from without (exo-mode) to a new mode from within (endo-mode). In combination, second-order science and the endo-mode constitute a new Copernican revolution. It will be shown that this new Copernican revolution can be characterized as a joint complexity and reflexivity revolution within the overall science system.
Literature:
Malnar, B., Müller, K.H. (2015),
Surveys and Reflexivity. A Second-Order Analysis of the European Social Survey (ESS). Wien:edition echoraum
Müller, K.H. (2016),
Second-Order Science. The Revolution of Scientific Structures. Wien:edition echoraum
Müller, K.H., Riegler, A. (2014b), „Second-Order Science: A Vast and Largely Unexplored Science Frontier”, in:
Constructivist Foundations, vol. 10, no. 1, 7 – 15
