Bernard Geoghegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 10316705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Geoghegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Geoghegan |
| SIGNATURE | GEOGHEGAN B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cybernetics
Cybernetics, a science of “communication and control” devised in the years after World War II, is often identified with communication engineering and computing. In fact, it sprang from a wide array of intellectual sources and in the 1950s and 1960s it impacted an even wider array of disciplinary quarters. This entry reviews a few of its multiple engagements, with particular emphasis on the afterlife of cybernetic concepts in the human sciences. S…
L évi‐ S trauss, C laude
Claude Lévi‐Strauss played a decisive role in internationalizing “communications” as a topic of transdisciplinary research in the 1950s and 1960s. His writings relayed concepts among communities of American and French academics, as well as among natural scientists, engineers, and social scientists. His reinterpretation of engineering in the perspective of cybernetics and information theory established premises that informed a generation of debate…
L évi‐ S trauss, C laude
Claude Lévi‐Strauss played a decisive role in internationalizing “communications” as a topic of transdisciplinary research in the 1950s and 1960s. His writings relayed concepts among communities of American and French academics, as well as among natural scientists, engineers, and social scientists. His reinterpretation of engineering in the perspective of cybernetics and information theory established premises that informed a generation of debate…
Cybernetics
Cybernetics, a science of “communication and control” devised in the years after World War II, is often identified with communication engineering and computing. In fact, it sprang from a wide array of intellectual sources and in the 1950s and 1960s it impacted an even wider array of disciplinary quarters. This entry reviews a few of its multiple engagements, with particular emphasis on the afterlife of cybernetic concepts in the human sciences. S…
L évi‐ S trauss, C laude
Claude Lévi‐Strauss played a decisive role in internationalizing “communications” as a topic of transdisciplinary research in the 1950s and 1960s. His writings relayed concepts among communities of American and French academics, as well as among natural scientists, engineers, and social scientists. His reinterpretation of engineering in the perspective of cybernetics and information theory established premises that informed a generation of debate…
Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Computer security (1 works)