On the Making of a System Theory of Life: Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's Conceptual Connection

Drack, Manfred; Apfalter, Wilfried; Pouvreau, David

doi:10.1086/522810

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On the Making of a System Theory of Life: Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's Conceptual Connection

Published in The Quarterly Review of Biology • Dec 1, 2007

Authors:

Manfred Drack

Wilfried Apfalter

David Pouvreau

Abstract

In this article, we review how two eminent Viennese system thinkers, Paul A Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, began to develop their own perspectives toward a system theory of life in the 1920s. Their work is especially rooted in experimental biology as performed at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt, ...

Subject

Connection (principal bundle)

The Renaissance

Epistemology

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