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The purpose of this book is to initiate a new discipline, namely a formalized epistemological method drawn from the cognitive strategies practised in the most effective among the modern scientific disciplines, as well as from general philosophical thinking. Indeed, what is lacking in order to improve our knowledge and our domination of the modes which nowadays are available for the generation and communication of knowledge, thoroughly and rapidly and with precision and detail? It is a systematic explication of the epistemological essence encrypted in the specialized languages and algorithms of the major modern scientific approaches, a systematic cross-referencing of the explicated results, and a final elaboration of a new coherent whole. Quantum mechanics, like a diver, can take us down to the level of the very first actions of our conceptualization of reality. And starting from there, it can induce an explicit understanding of certain fundamental features of the new scientific thinking. A formalized epistemology should not be mistaken for a crossdisciplinary or a multidisciplinary project.

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Author:   Mioara Mugur-Schächter ,  Alwyn van der Merwe
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2002 ed.
Volume:   129
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.970kg
ISBN:  

9781402011207

ISBN 10:   1402011202
Pages:   494
Publication Date:   31 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Remarks about the Program for a Formalized Epistemology.- Formalized Epistemology in a Philosophical Perspective.- Formalized Epistemology, Logic, and Grammar.- Epistemic Operations and Formalized Epistemology: Contribution to the Study of the Role of Epistemic Operations in Scientific Theories.- Mathematical Physics and Formalized Epistermology: Debate with Jean Petitot.- On the Possibility of a Formalized Epistemology.- Quantum Mechanics Versus a Method of Relativized Conceptualization.- Mathematical and Formalized Epistemologies.- Ago-Antagonistic Systems.- Complexity of the “Basic Unit” of Language: Some Parallels in Physics and Biology.- About the Emergence of Invariances in Physics: from “Substantial” Conservation to Formal Invariance.- Form and Actuality.- To Suspended Informal Time.- The Constructed Objectivity of Mathematics and the Cognitive Subject.- On Complexity.

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