Anticipatory Systems

Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical, and Methodological Foundations[1] is a book by Robert Rosen, conceived in the 1970s and published for the first time in 1985.

The book draws from mathematics, in particular category theory, in describing the way systems can anticipate.

The second edition includes a fifty-page prolegomena by Mihai Nadin, as well as contributions by Judith Rosen and John J. Kineman.

The book is the 27th volume in the International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, a series edited by George Klir.

A review [2] by Eric Minch of the first edition called the book "radical and profound".