Peter Erdi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1233675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Erdi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Erdi |
| SIGNATURE | ERDI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kalamazoo College and Wigner Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Liberal Arts College
This paper presents a critical self‐assessment of an interdisciplinary educational programme initially supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The author has been serving as a Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College since 2002. The paper reviews the whys and hows of interdisciplinary teaching related to classes derived intellectually from systems sciences and cybernetics. The Reader will learn that the programme has b…
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An Integrated Theory of Budgetary Politics and Some Empirical Tests
We develop a general theory of budgetary politics and examine its implications on a new data set on U.S. government expenditures from 1791 to 2010. We draw on three major approaches to budgeting: decision‐making theories, primarily incrementalism and serial processing; policy process models; and path dependency. We show that the incrementalist budget model is recursive and that its solution is exponential growth, and isolate three periods in whic…
Beauty and the Brain
This volume is a series of essays resulting from seven meetings of the Studiengruppe Biologische Grundlagen der Aesthetik, held at the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg von der Hohe, West Germany. The group addressed various themes surrounding biological aspects of aesthetic judgment and creativity. The basic premise of the emerging field of 'neuroaesthetics' is that the revolution in our under
Impossible' Forms
The construction of ‘impossible’ forms by visual artist Tamás Farkas gives the impetus for a discussion, by Farkas and scientist Péter Érdi, of scientific concepts related to graphics. The forms discussed connect constituent elements in a logical manner. The authors emphasize the necessity for some mental procedure to interpret the ‘impossible’ forms. Dynamic structures and various kinds of ‘attractors’ are discussed in connection with the visual…
An Integrated Theory of Budgetary Politics and Some Empirical Tests
We develop a general theory of budgetary politics and examine its implications on a new data set on U.S. government expenditures from 1791 to 2010. We draw on three major approaches to budgeting: decision‐making theories, primarily incrementalism and serial processing; policy process models; and path dependency. We show that the incrementalist budget model is recursive and that its solution is exponential growth, and isolate three periods in whic…
Impossible' Forms
The construction of ‘impossible’ forms by visual artist Tamás Farkas gives the impetus for a discussion, by Farkas and scientist Péter Érdi, of scientific concepts related to graphics. The forms discussed connect constituent elements in a logical manner. The authors emphasize the necessity for some mental procedure to interpret the ‘impossible’ forms. Dynamic structures and various kinds of ‘attractors’ are discussed in connection with the visual…
Beauty and the Brain
This volume is a series of essays resulting from seven meetings of the Studiengruppe Biologische Grundlagen der Aesthetik, held at the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg von der Hohe, West Germany. The group addressed various themes surrounding biological aspects of aesthetic judgment and creativity. The basic premise of the emerging field of 'neuroaesthetics' is that the revolution in our under
An Integrated Theory of Budgetary Politics and Some Empirical Tests
We develop a general theory of budgetary politics and examine its implications on a new data set on U.S. government expenditures from 1791 to 2010. We draw on three major approaches to budgeting: decision‐making theories, primarily incrementalism and serial processing; policy process models; and path dependency. We show that the incrementalist budget model is recursive and that its solution is exponential growth, and isolate three periods in whic…
Ranking
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Repair
Teaching Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Liberal Arts College
This paper presents a critical self‐assessment of an interdisciplinary educational programme initially supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The author has been serving as a Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College since 2002. The paper reviews the whys and hows of interdisciplinary teaching related to classes derived intellectually from systems sciences and cybernetics. The Reader will learn that the programme has b…
Computer Science (4 works) · Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence (2 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Arts in education (1 work) · Beauty (1 work)