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Root-metaphorical world views as alternative conceptual frameworks for investigation of complex

phenomena.

World View Root Metaphor Basic Tenets (what the

world view

emphasises)

Examples of Influence in

Academia

Mechanism Machine Reduction of the whole

to its component parts;

precision; detail; linear

causality; objectivity

Psychologists reducing

intelligence to a precisely

measurable IQ score

Organicism Organism

developing through

stages toward a

particular end

Coherence and totality

of systems the whole

transcending its parts!;

integrativeconnections; long"term

development

Interdisciplinary wor#

integrating #nowledge

across disciplines!; much

theorising about childdevelopment

Conte$tualism Ongoing event

within its conte$t

Conte$tual influences;

unpredictable

emergence of novelty

Cognitive scientists

studying the conte$t"

embedded mind conte$tual

influences on thought

patterns!

%ormism &bi'uitoussimilarity e(g()

Plato*s ideal forms!

+earch for patterns ofsimilarity in diverse

phenomena

Comple$ity theoristsstudying patterns of

similarity in the dynamics

of comple$ adaptive

systems such as human

brains) national economic

systems) fractal

mathematics

Don Ambrose, Bharath Sriraman, athleen !. "ierce. #A $riti%ue of $reativit& and $omplexit&'Deconstructing $lich(s).