Qualitative mathematics for the social sciences : mathematical models for research on cultural dynamics /
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Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013. |
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Description: | xiii, 478 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cultural dynamics of social representation Cultural dynamics of social representation. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8961783 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Mathematical Models and Social Representation
- Part I. Logics of Modeling
- Logic in Modeling, Logics as Models
- Introduction to Quantum Probability for Social and Behavioral Scientists
- The Sorites Paradox: A Behavioral Approach
- On an Intensity Attribute--Loudness
- Part II. Model Structures
- Functions of Structure in Mathematics and Modeling
- Structure and Hierarchies in Ganzheitspsychologie
- Mind-Knots and Mind-Relations: Knot Theory Applied to Psychology
- A Novel Generic Conception of Structure: Solving Piaget's Riddle
- Part III. Dynamic Models
- The Varieties of Dynamic(al) Experience
- Complex Dynamical Systems and the Social Sciences
- Intransitivity Cycles and Their Transformations: How Dynamically Adapting Systems Function?
- Part IV. Conclusions
- Modeling and Diagrammatic Reasoning