The philosophical foundations of cybernetics. 4th edition. Zhukov N.I.

This book sets out the worldview, methodological and logical foundations of cybernetics, its most important natural-scientific aspects and methods, and the conceptual system of concepts is considered; The heuristic role of the functional and system-structural approaches in solving a number of urgent problems of modern science is shown; The social consequences of the use of cybernetic technology are highlighted.

The book is intended for teachers of universities and students of philosophical faculties. The availability of the presentation allows it to also offer it to the students of the corresponding methodological seminars. The appendix gives: literature on each topic, a training course program, a dictionary of basic terms, topics of course and thesis, approximate topic of seminars on the philosophical problems of cybernetics.