Relational Science is an emerging paradigm that is defined by the foundational work of the late Dr. Robert Rosen, mathematical biologist. It is being carried forward here in the form of R-theory, which was developed from Rosen’s work by Dr. John Kineman. Judith Rosen, one of Robert Rosen’s daughters, is carrying the foundational work forward by republishing out of print or previously unpublished material, and adding new material of her own. Her website is at: http://www.rosen-enterprises.com/home.html. Judith maintains a discussion list and its archive, along with considerable other material on Rosen’s work, is on a site maintained by Tim Gwinn, at: http://www.panmere.com/. These resources should be consulted with regard to Rosen’s original materials and theories.
This site, Relational Science, is to carry the original work forward as a self-consistent worldview and analytical framework that can be applied to real-world problems in a methodical way. Rosen’s original work had several theory tracks that were not combined with each other, so R-theory is an attempt to combine them.
The Relational Science blog is now active on this site (see blog link in menu). Please feel free to join and discuss topics related to R-theory or Relational Science in general.
Please note also that the main distinction between the discussion here and other forms of “relationalism”, especially in the physics literature, is that Rosen’s modeling relation is not merely between material things or events, but fundamentally between ‘things’ and their formative contexts. Other treatments of relation try to relate realized systems, overlooking the role of context and the contextual causes involved that make a system complex and allow for living phenomena.
Also note that in some more psychological or spiritual usages the term “realized” or “realization” has the opposite meaning to here; in relational terms, that of comprehending one’s contextual existence rather than one’s material existence.
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