Author: Ahl, Valerie & Allen, T.F.H.
Title: Hierarchy Theory: A Vision, Vocabulary, and Epistemology
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, ix,206 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Confronting the Complexity of Our Time; Levels of Analysis as a Challenge to Realism; The Critical Dualities in Observation; Ordering Hierarchical Levels; Changing the Context: Constraint & Nestedness; Filtering Information; Defining the Whole with Surfaces; Evolution & Revolution in Creating Complex Structures.

Keywords: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Hierarchy Theory, Methodology, , , , ,