About Francis Heylighen

Address:: PO-PESP, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone:: +32-2-629 25 25
Fax:: +32-2-629 24 89
Email:: fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be

Dr. Francis Heylighen is a Senior Research Associate ("Onderzoeksleider") for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO). He works at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he is an Associate Director of the transdisciplinary research Center "Leo Apostel" (CLEA). He is an editor of the world-wide Principia Cybernetica Project for the collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy.

The main focus of his research (see his annotated list of publications) is the evolutionary development of higher levels of complexity, and especially the development of knowledge (see his project , submitted to the NFWO). He tries to apply these ideas to the integration of knowledge from different disciplines into an encompassing, computer-supported conceptual framework or "world view".

In addition, he has done research (individually or in collaboration) and published papers about different topics in diverse disciplines:

Foundations of quantum mechanics and of relativity theory (see his PhD. Thesis)
Cybernetics and Systems Theory (with C. Joslyn and V. Turchin)
Psychology of Causal Attributions (with F. Van Overwalle)
Maslow's theory of the Self-Actualizing Personality
Hypermedia Interfaces
Adaptive, self-organizing associative webs (with J. Bollen)
Formality in Linguistics (with J. Dewaele)
Evolutionary Development of Social Systems (with D.T. Campbell)

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