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KLI Colloquia are invited research talks of about an hour followed by 30 min discussion. The talks are held in English, open to the public, and offered in hybrid format. 

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Spring-Summer 2026 KLI Colloquium Series

12 March 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

What Is Biological Modality, and What Has It Got to Do With Psychology?

Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa)

 

26 March 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans

Tim Waring (University of Maine)

 

9 April 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

Hierarchies and Power in Primatology and Their Populist Appropriation

Rebekka Hufendiek (Ulm University)

 

16 April 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto)

 

30 April 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

What's in a Trait? Reconceptualizing Neurodevelopmental Timing by Seizing Insights From Philosophy

Isabella Sarto-Jackson (KLI)

 

7 May 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

The Evolutionary Trajectory of Human Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions

Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Society)

 

21 May 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

Why Directionality Emerged in Multicellular Differentiation

Somya Mani (KLI)

 

28 May 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

The Interplay of Tissue Mechanics and Gene Regulatory Networks in the Evolution of Morphogenesis

James DiFrisco (Francis Crick Institute)

 

11 June 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

Brave Genomes: Genome Plasticity in the Face of Environmental Challenge

Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna)

 

25 June 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET

The Evolvability of the Mammalian Ear: From Microevolutionary Variation to Macroevolutionary Patterns

Anne LeMaitre (KLI)

 

KLI Colloquia 2014 – 2026

Event Details

Ievgeniia Ivanova
KLI Colloquia
Parametric General Systems Theory and How to Apply It
Ievgeniia IVANOVA (University of Stirling)
2024-06-13 15:00 - 2024-06-13 17:00
KLI
Organized by KLI

Thu, 13 June 2024, 3.00 pm (CET)
To join the Colloquium, please follow this link:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/62300289816?pwd=fXh8luJeb3sPfRRJDToXcDAiH2irjp.1

 

Topic description / abstract:

Given the variety of systematic approaches and methodological tools, it is important to consider the problem of methodological adequacy using a particular method to obtain a non-trivial result. The concept of adequacy is often considered intuitively clear but is usually one of the vaguest. This leads to difficulties in solving many practical problems in various fields of knowledge. I propose criteria of adequacy methods and validate applying the Parametric General System Theory as an adequate method for analysing complex systems. Parametric General System Theory (PGST) methodology allows a qualitative analysis of objects where quantitative methods are not always appropriate. PGST was developed in the 1960s-1970s by Ukrainian philosopher and researcher Avenir Uyomov. PGST is still successfully used in various socio-humanitarian fields (Uyomov 2016) to analyse complex systems where using system theories based on mathematical tools such as those advocated by W. Ross Ashby (Ashby 1962), John von Neumann (Neumann 1958), Russell L. Ackoff (Ackoff 1972), Ilya Prigogine (Prigogine 1984), is not adequate. Parametric General System Theory proposes a procedure for transforming any object into a substratum of some structure corresponding to a fixed concept. Also, PGST allows us to talk about system-specific characteristics of the subject of study: attributive and relational system parameters.
 
Biographical note:
Ievgeniia Ivanova – PhD, Visiting fellow at the University of Stirling (UK). From 2022 to 2024, she was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen (UK). From 2012 to 2022, she held senior lecturer positions at the Odesa National Polytechnic University (Ukraine), National Medical University (Ukraine), and as an associate professor at the National University "Odesa Maritime Academy" (Ukraine). Ievgeniia's research interests cover interdisciplinary areas such as philosophy and methodology of knowledge, epistemology, and philosophy of social science using a systems approach to research complex intellectual, value, and social objects. She popularises science and has many popular science publications in different media. Dr Ivanova is also an author at The Conversation (UK) and Editor-in-chief of an online magazine about culture, urban study, and contemporary art, Prostranstvo (Ukraine).