Poe Yu-Ze Wan
Biographic Data
| ID | 317579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Poe Yu-Ze Wan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Poe Yu-Ze |
| FAMILY NAME | Wan |
| SIGNATURE | WAN P Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1606-2464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Outsourcing Participatory Democracy
This article attempts to critically examine the experiences of participatory budgeting (PB) that have proliferated across Taiwan’s cities over the past three years. It is argued that PB in Taiwan remains an isolated initiative instead of an integral part of a comprehensive administrative reform. What makes Taiwan’s PB experiences theoretically interesting is that, in most cases outside the Taipei City, the tasks of promoting PB, designing the pro…
Dialética, Complexidade e a Abordagem Sistêmica
Este artigo tenta avaliar as críticas importantes, mas amplamente ignoradas de Mario Bunge à dialética, entendida aqui segundo a acepção de Friedrich Engels e Leon Trotsky. Argumenta-se que, embora algumas das críticas de Bunge sejam importantes, os princípios que permeiam o trabalho de cientistas dialéticos (como Stephen Rose, Lewis, Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, etc.) são ainda compatíveis com a aproximação sistêmica e emergentista de Bunge. Fin…
Reframing the Social
Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Nik…
Dialectics, Complexity,and the Systemic Approach
This article attempts to assess Mario Bunge’s important but widely neglected criticisms of dialectics. It begins by providing a contextualized interpretation of Friedrich Engels’s metaphysics of the dialectics of nature before embarking on a detailed discussion of Leon Trotsky’s and contemporary “dialectical” scientists’ views on materialist dialectics. It argues that while some of Bunge’s criticisms are eminently sensible, the principles underly…
Systems Theory
In this article, Niklas Luhmann's pessimistic view of steering [ Steuerung] and planning in modern society is contrasted with Mario Bunge's advocacy of 'technoholodemocracy' (or 'integral democracy') and some core ideas of the 'critical social systems theory' as developed by Christian Fuchs and others. Before that, the holistic leanings of Luhmann's autopoietic approach, as exemplified by such notions as 'structural coupling' and 'total exclusion…
(Re-)Problematizing the Luhmannian constructivist systems approach
In the field of sociological theory, after the decline of Parsons' version of structural functionalism, Niklas Luhmann's systems theory came to be seen as the major representative of systems thinking. While Luhmann's autopoietic systems ontology is sophisticated and deserves serious consideration, the author argues that the prevailing identification of Luhmann's constructivist-oriented approach with the systems approach itself is problematic main…
Emergence à la Systems Theory
In this article, I examine Luhmann’s, Bunge’s and others’ views on emergence, and argue that Luhmann’s epistemological construal of emergence in terms of Totalausschluss (total exclusion) is both ontologically flawed and detrimental to an appropriate understanding of the distinctive features of social emergence. By contrast, Bunge’s rational emergentism, his CESM model, and Wimsatt’s characterization of emergence as nonaggregativity provide a use…
Emergence à la Systems Theory
In this article, I examine Luhmann’s, Bunge’s and others’ views on emergence, and argue that Luhmann’s epistemological construal of emergence in terms of Totalausschluss (total exclusion) is both ontologically flawed and detrimental to an appropriate understanding of the distinctive features of social emergence. By contrast, Bunge’s rational emergentism, his CESM model, and Wimsatt’s characterization of emergence as nonaggregativity provide a use…
Dialectics, Complexity,and the Systemic Approach
This article attempts to assess Mario Bunge’s important but widely neglected criticisms of dialectics. It begins by providing a contextualized interpretation of Friedrich Engels’s metaphysics of the dialectics of nature before embarking on a detailed discussion of Leon Trotsky’s and contemporary “dialectical” scientists’ views on materialist dialectics. It argues that while some of Bunge’s criticisms are eminently sensible, the principles underly…
Systems Theory
In this article, Niklas Luhmann's pessimistic view of steering [ Steuerung] and planning in modern society is contrasted with Mario Bunge's advocacy of 'technoholodemocracy' (or 'integral democracy') and some core ideas of the 'critical social systems theory' as developed by Christian Fuchs and others. Before that, the holistic leanings of Luhmann's autopoietic approach, as exemplified by such notions as 'structural coupling' and 'total exclusion…
Emergence à la Systems Theory
In this article, I examine Luhmann’s, Bunge’s and others’ views on emergence, and argue that Luhmann’s epistemological construal of emergence in terms of Totalausschluss (total exclusion) is both ontologically flawed and detrimental to an appropriate understanding of the distinctive features of social emergence. By contrast, Bunge’s rational emergentism, his CESM model, and Wimsatt’s characterization of emergence as nonaggregativity provide a use…
Systems Theory
In this article, Niklas Luhmann's pessimistic view of steering [ Steuerung] and planning in modern society is contrasted with Mario Bunge's advocacy of 'technoholodemocracy' (or 'integral democracy') and some core ideas of the 'critical social systems theory' as developed by Christian Fuchs and others. Before that, the holistic leanings of Luhmann's autopoietic approach, as exemplified by such notions as 'structural coupling' and 'total exclusion…
(Re-)Problematizing the Luhmannian constructivist systems approach
In the field of sociological theory, after the decline of Parsons' version of structural functionalism, Niklas Luhmann's systems theory came to be seen as the major representative of systems thinking. While Luhmann's autopoietic systems ontology is sophisticated and deserves serious consideration, the author argues that the prevailing identification of Luhmann's constructivist-oriented approach with the systems approach itself is problematic main…
Dialectics, Complexity,and the Systemic Approach
This article attempts to assess Mario Bunge’s important but widely neglected criticisms of dialectics. It begins by providing a contextualized interpretation of Friedrich Engels’s metaphysics of the dialectics of nature before embarking on a detailed discussion of Leon Trotsky’s and contemporary “dialectical” scientists’ views on materialist dialectics. It argues that while some of Bunge’s criticisms are eminently sensible, the principles underly…
Reframing the Social
Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Nik…
Outsourcing Participatory Democracy
This article attempts to critically examine the experiences of participatory budgeting (PB) that have proliferated across Taiwan’s cities over the past three years. It is argued that PB in Taiwan remains an isolated initiative instead of an integral part of a comprehensive administrative reform. What makes Taiwan’s PB experiences theoretically interesting is that, in most cases outside the Taipei City, the tasks of promoting PB, designing the pro…
Dialética, Complexidade e a Abordagem Sistêmica
Este artigo tenta avaliar as críticas importantes, mas amplamente ignoradas de Mario Bunge à dialética, entendida aqui segundo a acepção de Friedrich Engels e Leon Trotsky. Argumenta-se que, embora algumas das críticas de Bunge sejam importantes, os princípios que permeiam o trabalho de cientistas dialéticos (como Stephen Rose, Lewis, Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, etc.) são ainda compatíveis com a aproximação sistêmica e emergentista de Bunge. Fin…
Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Holism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Systems theory (3 works) · Autopoiesis (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)