TU Wien Informatics

20 Years

Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Ao.Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dr.phil.

Research Focus

Research Areas

  • informatics and society, Philosophy and trends of Technology, Diffusion of new technologies and their interactions with the society and the environment., Knowledge Society, Philosophy of Science, information theory, system theory
Wolfgang Hofkirchner

About

1) Complexity Thinking: e.g.Praxio-Onto-Epistemology (POE), Evolutionary Systems Theory (EST), Critical Social Systems Theory (CSST) 2) Science of Information like Unified Theory of Information (UTI) 3) ICTs and Society like Critical Information Society Theory (CIST) or Critical Design Theory (CDT) 4) Philosophy of Information and Technology

Role

2021

  • Transhumanism and Philosophy of Technology / Papagni, G. (2021). Transhumanism and Philosophy of Technology. In W. Hofkirchner & H.-J. Kreowski (Eds.), Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea? (pp. 49–64). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56546-6_3

2020

2019

2017

2016

  • The Commons and Global Sustainable Information Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2016). The Commons and Global Sustainable Information Society. In W. Baier, E. Canepa, & E. Himmelstoss (Eds.), the Enigma of Europe (pp. 173–182). Merlin Press. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/29162
  • Ethics from Systems: Origin, Development and Current State of Normativity / Hofkirchner, W. (2016). Ethics from Systems: Origin, Development and Current State of Normativity. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Morphogenesis and the Crisis of Normativity (pp. 279–295). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/29161
  • Relationality in Social Systems. Social Relations in the Focus of Social Theory / Hofkirchner, W. (2016). Relationality in Social Systems. Social Relations in the Focus of Social Theory. In W. Li (Ed.), “Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer”, Vorträge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, Hannover, 18.-23. Juli 2016 (pp. 235–243). Georg Olms Verlag. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/56192

2015

  • "Mechanisms" at Work in the Information Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2015). “Mechanisms” at Work in the Information Society. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order (pp. 95–112). Springer. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/28953
  • Information for a Global Sustainable Information Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2015). Information for a Global Sustainable Information Society. IS4IS Summit Vienna 2015: The Information Society at the Crossroads - Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/86261
  • “Mechanisms” at Work in Information Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2015). “Mechanisms” at Work in Information Society. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Social Morphogenesis (pp. 95–112). springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5_5
  • Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2015). Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society. In G. Chroust (Ed.), IDIMT 2015. Information Technology and Society, Interaction and Interdependence (pp. 281–288). Trauner Verlag. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/56380

2014

2013

2012

  • Empathy / Hofkirchner, W. (2012). Empathy. In D. Favareau, P. Cobley, & K. Kull (Eds.), A more developed sign (pp. 119–122). Tartu University Press. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/27809
  • Sustainability and self-organisation / Hofkirchner, W. (2012). Sustainability and self-organisation. In T. Nishigaki & T. Takenouchi (Eds.), Information ethics (pp. 190–217). V2 Solution. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/54483
  • emcsr book of abstracts / Hofkirchner, W., Blachfellner, S., & Bichler, R. (Eds.). (2012). emcsr book of abstracts. Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/23612

2011

  • "Kritische Systemtheorie" - eine contradictio in adjecto? / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). “Kritische Systemtheorie” - eine contradictio in adjecto? In Widerworte. Politik Philosophie Kommunikation (pp. 29–39). innsbruck university press. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/27506
  • General System Theory / Hofkirchner, W., & Schafranek, M. (2011). General System Theory. In Philosophy of Complex Systems, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 10 (pp. 177–194). North-Holland. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/27503
  • Does Computing Embrace Self-Organisation? Ontological Problems of Information-Processing / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). Does Computing Embrace Self-Organisation? Ontological Problems of Information-Processing. In Information and Computation, Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation (pp. 185–202). World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/27504
  • Communities of Action and the Message Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). Communities of Action and the Message Society. In Messages and Messengers, Angeletics as an Approach to the Phenomenology of Communication (pp. 255–270). Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Uni Taschenbücher. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/27505
  • Information and Communication Technologies for a Good Society / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). Information and Communication Technologies for a Good Society. In A. Mirijamdotter & D. Haftor (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework (pp. 434–443). Information Science Reference. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/27502
  • Emergent information. Some system-theoretical considerations about an integrative information concept / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). Emergent information. Some system-theoretical considerations about an integrative information concept. International Journal Information Theory and Applications, 18, 50–55. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/163217
  • Emergent Information. When a Difference makes a Difference... / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). Emergent Information. When a Difference makes a Difference... the difference that makes a difference, milton keynes, EU. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85281
  • General System Theory and Complex Systems Philosophy / Hofkirchner, W. (2011). General System Theory and Complex Systems Philosophy. Systems in Biology, Universität Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/85282

2010

2003

2002

 

  • Member
    2010 / International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences / Austria
  • Mitglied
    2006 / Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Germany

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