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Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Anticipation in the Natural Sciences; 2.1 Physics; 2.2 Biology; 2.2.1 The Good Samaritan; 2.2.2 Intelligence; 2.2.3 Ascendency and Overhead; 2.2.4 Anticipation; References; Chapter 3: Anticipation in the Human and Social Sciences; 3.1 Psychology; 3.2 Anthropology; 3.3 Sociology; 3.3.1 Projects and Habits; 3.3.2 Abstract and Concrete Futures; 3.3.3 Forms of Coordination; 3.3.4 Utopias - Real or Ortherwise; 3.3.5 Future Moves; 3.4 Economics; 3.4.1 Fictions; 3.4.1.1 Non-predictive Strategies
3.4.2 Anticipatory Organizations3.4.3 Synthetic Information; References; Chapter 4: Understanding the Future; 4.1 Approaching the Study of the Future; 4.1.1 The First Studies on the Future; 4.1.2 Facta and Futura; 4.1.3 Dispositions; 4.1.4 The Futures in the Making; 4.1.5 Levels of Depth of Futures Study; 4.1.6 Futures and Utopias; 4.1.7 Foresight 2.0; 4.2 Types of Future; 4.2.1 Ways of Using the Future; 4.2.2 Future-Generating Research; 4.3 Futures Literacy; 4.4 Toward a Theory of Anticipation?; References; Chapter 5: Anticipation in Philosophy; 5.1 Philosophical Samples; 5.1.1 Henri Bergson
5.1.2 Edmund Husserl5.1.3 George Herbert Mead; 5.1.4 Alfred North Whitehead; 5.1.5 Charles Peirce; 5.1.6 Hans Jonas; 5.1.7 Martin Heidegger; 5.1.8 Gilles Deleuze; 5.2 Ernst Bloch; 5.3 Nicolai Hartmann; 5.4 Ethics; References; Chapter 6: Ontological Sketches; 6.1 Ontological Preliminaries; 6.2 Structural and Functional Analysis; 6.3 Wholes and Their Parts; 6.4 Encapsulation; References; Chapter 7: Process, Cause, and Emergence; 7.1 Process; 7.2 Causation; 7.2.1 Aristotle's Four Causes; 7.2.2 Organicity and the Autopoietic Cycle; 7.2.3 The Newtonian Isolation of Causes
7.3 Emergence and Creativity7.4 Levels of Reality; 7.4.1 Towards a Layered Social Ontology; 7.4.2 Emergence and Latents; 7.4.3 Emergents and Values; 7.4.4 Social Innovation; References; Chapter 8: Time and Times; 8.1 Time as a Category; 8.2 Real Time; 8.2.1 First-Order Level of Time; 8.2.2 Second-Order Level of Time; 8.2.3 Third-Order Level of Time; 8.3 Thick Present: Psychological Time; 8.4 Thick Present: Social Time; 8.4.1 Historical Time; 8.4.2 Natural and Artificial Social Rhythms; 8.4.3 Culturally-Biased Temporal Patterns; 8.4.4 Unfolding Social Acceleration
8.4.5 Dimensions of Future Projections8.4.6 Types of Social Time; References; Chapter 9: Systems; 9.1 Analysis and Synthesis; 9.2 Systems and Subsystems; 9.2.1 To Understand X, Look at Y!; 9.2.2 Controllers; 9.2.3 Models; 9.3 Causes, Complexity and Dynamics; 9.4 Glimpses of a New Territory; References; Chapter 10: Complexity; 10.1 Complicated vs. Complex Systems; 10.2 Adequate Models; 10.3 Natural Complexity; 10.4 Two Principles; References; Chapter 11: Impredicativity; 11.1 A First Glance at Impredicativity; 11.2 Basic Properties of Impredicative Systems
3.4.2 Anticipatory Organizations3.4.3 Synthetic Information; References; Chapter 4: Understanding the Future; 4.1 Approaching the Study of the Future; 4.1.1 The First Studies on the Future; 4.1.2 Facta and Futura; 4.1.3 Dispositions; 4.1.4 The Futures in the Making; 4.1.5 Levels of Depth of Futures Study; 4.1.6 Futures and Utopias; 4.1.7 Foresight 2.0; 4.2 Types of Future; 4.2.1 Ways of Using the Future; 4.2.2 Future-Generating Research; 4.3 Futures Literacy; 4.4 Toward a Theory of Anticipation?; References; Chapter 5: Anticipation in Philosophy; 5.1 Philosophical Samples; 5.1.1 Henri Bergson
5.1.2 Edmund Husserl5.1.3 George Herbert Mead; 5.1.4 Alfred North Whitehead; 5.1.5 Charles Peirce; 5.1.6 Hans Jonas; 5.1.7 Martin Heidegger; 5.1.8 Gilles Deleuze; 5.2 Ernst Bloch; 5.3 Nicolai Hartmann; 5.4 Ethics; References; Chapter 6: Ontological Sketches; 6.1 Ontological Preliminaries; 6.2 Structural and Functional Analysis; 6.3 Wholes and Their Parts; 6.4 Encapsulation; References; Chapter 7: Process, Cause, and Emergence; 7.1 Process; 7.2 Causation; 7.2.1 Aristotle's Four Causes; 7.2.2 Organicity and the Autopoietic Cycle; 7.2.3 The Newtonian Isolation of Causes
7.3 Emergence and Creativity7.4 Levels of Reality; 7.4.1 Towards a Layered Social Ontology; 7.4.2 Emergence and Latents; 7.4.3 Emergents and Values; 7.4.4 Social Innovation; References; Chapter 8: Time and Times; 8.1 Time as a Category; 8.2 Real Time; 8.2.1 First-Order Level of Time; 8.2.2 Second-Order Level of Time; 8.2.3 Third-Order Level of Time; 8.3 Thick Present: Psychological Time; 8.4 Thick Present: Social Time; 8.4.1 Historical Time; 8.4.2 Natural and Artificial Social Rhythms; 8.4.3 Culturally-Biased Temporal Patterns; 8.4.4 Unfolding Social Acceleration
8.4.5 Dimensions of Future Projections8.4.6 Types of Social Time; References; Chapter 9: Systems; 9.1 Analysis and Synthesis; 9.2 Systems and Subsystems; 9.2.1 To Understand X, Look at Y!; 9.2.2 Controllers; 9.2.3 Models; 9.3 Causes, Complexity and Dynamics; 9.4 Glimpses of a New Territory; References; Chapter 10: Complexity; 10.1 Complicated vs. Complex Systems; 10.2 Adequate Models; 10.3 Natural Complexity; 10.4 Two Principles; References; Chapter 11: Impredicativity; 11.1 A First Glance at Impredicativity; 11.2 Basic Properties of Impredicative Systems