PhiloWikiConceptsPhilosophersBooksInteractive graph

Concept

Anatol Rapoport

Anatol Rapoport
Submitted by Rapoport or his agent · Public domain · source

Overview

Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911 – January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Possible passages

Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.

  1. In the same work, and more particularly in the third volume, are also fully discussed the limits of the applicability of mathematical principles to the improvement of other sciences. Such principles are manifestly inapplicable, where the causes on which any class of phenomena depend are so imperfectly accessible to our observation, that we can not ascertain, by a proper induction, their numerical…

    John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

    Close in meaning to Anatol Rapoport; the term itself is not named.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

  2. So it is far from true that contagion, the source of these connections and confusions, is marked with that fundamental irrationality that one is inclined to attribute it at first. It has opened the way for the scientific explanations of the future.

    Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

    Close in meaning to Anatol Rapoport; the term itself is not named.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

  3. The knowledge of the elementary fact enables us to put the problem in an equation. Nothing remains but to deduce from this by combination the complex fact that can be observed and verified. This is what is called _integration_, and is the business of the mathematician. It may be asked why, in physical sciences, generalization so readily takes the mathematical form. The reason is now easy to see. It is not only…

    Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science

    States what Anatol Rapoport is.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

Philosophers who discussed Anatol Rapoport

Related ideas

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of war.

Explore Anatol Rapoport in the interactive graph →