Handbook of Anticipation

Roberto Poli (Ph.D. Utrecht) was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, is fellow of WAAS – World Academy of Art and Science, and STIAS – Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Poli is editor-in-chief of Axiomathes (Springer) and editor of the series Categories (De Gruyter) and Anticipation Science (Springer). Poli heads the master’s programme in social foresight. Poli’s research interests include:• Anticipatory systems, i.e., systems able to take decisions according to their possible future development (R. Poli, Introduction to Anticipation Studies, Springer 2017).• Ontology, in both its traditional philosophical understanding and the new, computer-oriented, understanding (Alwis. Ontology for Knowledge Engineers, PhD Thesis, Utrecht, 2001; Theory and Applications of Ontology, 2 vol. Springer 2010).Poli has published 6 books, edited or co-edited more than 20 books or journal special issues, and published more than 250 scientific papers.

• INTRODUCING ANTICIPATION.- Anticipation: An Introduction.- Time and Temporality.- Complex Systems.- Ontological Expansions (includes emergent and their stabilizers).- UNDERSTANDING ANTICIPATION.- Human History.- Counter-factualism as anticipation.- Cultural Study.- Linguistics.- Anticipation in natural languages.- Anticipatory Processes in Sentence Processing.-  Anticipation during language processing and simultaneous interpreting.- Literature.- Anticipation and Narratology.- Science Fiction as Anticipation.- Arts.- Anticipation in music.- Anticipation in the movies.- Philosophy.- Philosophy and the future.- Ethics.- Anticipatory ethics.- Responsible anticipations.- The future orientation of the capability approach.- Religion.- Anticipation and Eschatology.- Pannenberg’s ontology of anticipation.- Rahner’s vision of the future.- Muslim’s theology and the future.- SOCIAL SCIENCES.- Geography.- Preemption, precaution and preparedness: anticipatory action and future geographies, Geopolitics.- Anthropology.- Psychology.- Microgenesis and Perception.- Bottom up and top-down anticipations.- The End of History Illusion.- Future self-continuity.- Non-predictive anticipatory management.- Political Science.- Political anticipation.- Genealogies of the unknown.- Sociology.- Social Acceleration.- Dimensions of social time.- Social futures.- .- Group and Class Anticipations.- Real Utopias.- Utopias as Method.- Radical Democracy and critical futures – anticipation and social movements.- Indigenous Knowledge Systems & Anticipation.- Gender studies / queer theory.- Feminist anticipations.- Queer Theory and anticipatory practice, Judith Halberstam (on ‘queer time’ and ‘queer space’).- Critical Theory - critiques of anticipatory politics and governance.- Critical Theory, receptivity, anticipation and possibility.- Regimes of Anticipation.- Regimes of Anticipation/ Politics of Possibility.- NATURAL SCIENCES.- Physics.- Entropic and synthropic systems.- Quantum Physics.- Backward Causation.- Hyperincursive systems.- Chemistry.- Hypercycles and Feedforward cycles in chemistry.- Biology.- Relational biology.- Evolution and self-organization.- System biology.- Evolutionary ecology of developmental plasticity in plants.- Plant behavior.- Microorganism behavioural, epigenetic and evolutionary processes.- Invertebrates.- Animal anticipation.- THE PART ON HIGHER ORDER ANIMALS IS LACKING.- Ecology.- Anticipation and the management of complex ecological systems.- Anticipation and resilience.- Environmental risk assessment and management.- System ecology.- FORMAL SCIENCES.- Mathematics.-  Anticipation in mathematics.- Artificial and augmented reality.- Anticipatory games.- Logic.- The logic of abduction.- Statistics.- Time Series Analysis.- Robust Modeling.- System science.- Dynamical systems.- Anticipation in MES-Memory Evolutive Systems.- CONTEXTS OF ANTICIPATORY PRACTICE.- Agriculture: Anticipatory agriculture.- Architecture and design.- Anticipating world city risks.- Anticipatory and Smart City.- Advanced design.- System engineering.- Critical infrastructures.- Environmental studies.- Family therapy: Anticipation in family therapy.- Law: Anticipation in Common Law.- Military science.- Auftragstaktik and its practical refinements.- Distinguishing anticipation from planning.- Gaming as an anticipatory method.- Public administration.- Anticipatory Governance.- Anticipatory Intelligence.- Medicine and Health care.- Urban studies and planning.- ENHANCING ANTICIPATION.- Overview of future-based methods.- Assessing anticipation (FMM-Foresight Maturity Model, etc).