Morphological Analysis Project List

Ars Morphologica is a planned series of articles (eventually an anthology) on the epistemological history of Morphology, both as a philosophy of science and as a general approach to scientific modelling. Chapters will appear serially on this page and at Acta Morphologica Generalis (AMG)

Part 1.  Conceptual Modelling, Combinatorial Heuristics and Ars inveniendi - An Epistemological History
             [Download chapters 1 & 2: Introduction and Conceptual Background]
             [Download chapter 4: Ramon Llull and the Combinatorial Art]

Part 2. Plato's Architectonic and the Foundational Model of Rational Science [Synopsis]

Part 3. Model-Based Reasoning in Proclus, Llull, Cusanus and Kepler [Synopsis]

Part 4. Leibniz: Morphology, Monadology and Ars Inveniendi [Synopsis]

Part 5. Goethe, Morphology and Whole-Part Modelling [Synopsis]

Part 6. Herbart, Riemann and Topological Space [Synopsis]

Part 7. Modern Neoplatonism: Peirce, Einstein, Gödel [Synopsis]

Part 8. Contemporary Morphological Modelling and Ars Inveniendi [Synopsis]

Ars Morphologica

A History of Model-Based Reasoning and the Art of Discovery from Plato to Zwicky