Interdisciplinary sciences
Mostly about systems, synthesizing, going beyond the reductionism and analysis of the basic foundational sciences, towards more holistic sciences.
http://artificial-intuition.com/bizarre.html
List of systems science journals
From here:
After World War II, the United States enjoyed a period of euphoria. The Allied Powers had triumphed — seemingly through science, technology and systems thinking. In this environment, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation organized a series of conferences from 1946 to 1953 “on the workings of the human mind” [27], later titled “Cybernetics”. The aim of the conferences was to promote meaningful communication across scientific disciplines and restore unity to science [28]. It included people like J.C.R. Licklider, Margaret Mead, Heinz von Foerster, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener.
Inspired by the conference, in 1948 Wiener published his seminal work “Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” [29] and Shannon published “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” [30]. Such works laid the foundation for today’s information age by providing a scientific theory for concepts such as “information”, “communication”, “feedback” and “control”.
Systems theory
Cybernetics
Wiener defined cybernetics as the science of adaptive, feedback-based control [31]. The name comes from the ancient greek word for steersman. Cybernetics takes the view that control in complex environments must be conversational. It requires not just action but also listening and adaptation: To steer a boat across a lake, you have to use your tiller and sails to adjust to changing winds and currents. The cybernetic model of control is circular, decisions depend not only on how well people carry out their intentions but also on how the environment responds.
Mostly about the Control theory part of systems science, but often almost synonymous in practice.
Principia Cybernetica Electronic Library
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/k
As Pask noted, “architects are first and foremost systems designers,” but they lack “an underpinning and unifying theory… Cybernetics is a discipline which fills the bill” [36]. By systematically integrating context and relationships, cybernetics pushed creation & design beyond its object-based approach.
Creative systems
Philosophy
http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/dissemination/groups-archive/vzw_worldviews/