Emergent Design - Explorations in Systems Phenomenology in Relation to Ontology, Hermeneutics and the Meta-dialectics of Design - by Kent Duane Palmer (2009) (PDF)
Synopsis: A Phenomenological Analysis of Emergent Design is performed based on the foundations of General Schemas Theory. The concept of Sign Engineering is explored in terms of Hermeneutics, Dialectics, and Ontology in order to define Emergent Systems and Meta-systems Engineering based on the concept of Meta-dialectics.