The Russian Centre of Interdisciplinary Research of Reflexive Processes and Control joins WOSC

We welcome the Russian  “Centre of Interdisciplinary Research of Reflexive Processes and Control of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (CIRRPC)”.

Its main purposes are: Intensification and coordination of scientific research and development connected with a socio-humanistic perspectives of system analysis and control (cybernetics) in the following directions:

  • reflexive processes and control;
  • reflexive mechanisms of control of complexity; philosophical and methodological bases of the third-order cybernetics (post-non classical cybernetics of self-developing reflexive-active environments);
  • integration into the third-order cybernetics of certain areas of modern knowledge (synergetrics, management of complexity, personal knowledge, ethics of strategic subjects, etc.);
  • development of transdisciplinary approach in the context of the third-order cybernetics;
  • development of socio-humanistic technologies of the organization of self-developing reflexive-active environments; 

Tasks of the Center

  • organize (time in two years) the international interdisciplinary scientific and practical symposiums “Reflexive Processes and Control” (ten symposiums are organized);
  • publication of the international journal “Reflexive Processes and Control” (it is published since 2001).

Head of the Centre: Vladimir Lepskiy.

It will be an active contributor to WOSC 2017