Technen [electronic resource] : elements of recent history of information technologies with epistemological conclusions / Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki.
Wierzbicki, Andrzej, 1937- author.
2014
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Title Technen [electronic resource] : elements of recent history of information technologies with epistemological conclusions / Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki.
Author Wierzbicki, Andrzej, 1937- author.
ISBN 9783319090337 electronic book
331909033X electronic book
9783319090320
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09033-7
Published Cham : Springer, [2014]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-09033-7 doi
Call Number HC79.T4
Dewey Decimal Classification 601/.12
Summary The book expresses the conviction that the art of creating tools {u2013} Greek techne {u2013} changes its character together with the change of civilization epochs and co-determines such changes. This does not mean that tools typical for a civilization epoch determine it completely, but they change our way of perceiving and interpreting the world. There might have been many such epochs in the history of human civilization (much more than the three waves of agricultural, industrial and information civilization). This is expressed by the title Technen of the book, where n denotes a subsequent civilization epoch. During last fifty years we observed a decomposition of the old episteme (understood as a way of creating and interpreting knowledge characteristic for a given civilization epoch) of modernism, which was an episteme typical for industrial civilization. Today, the world is differently understood by the representatives of three different cultural spheres: of strict and natural sciences; of human and social sciences (especially by their part inclined towards postmodernism) and technical sciences that have a different episteme than even that of strict and natural sciences. Thus, we observe today not two cultures, but three different episteme. The book consists of four parts. First contains basic epistemological observations, second is devoted to selected elements of recent history of information technologies, third contains more detailed epistemological and general discussions, fourth specifies conclusions. The book is written from the cognitive perspective of technical sciences, with a full awareness {u2013} and discussion {u2013} of its differences from the cognitive perspective of strict sciences or human and social sciences. The main thesis of the book is that informational revolution will probably lead to a formation of a new episteme. The book includes discussions of many issues related to such general perspective, such as what is technology proper; what is intuition from a perspective of technology and of evolutionary naturalism; what are the reasons for and how large are the delays between a fundamental invention and its broad social utilization; what is the fundamental logical error (using paradoxes that are not real, only apparent) of the tradition of sceptical philosophy; what are rational foundations and examples of emergence of order out of chaos; whether civilization development based on two positive feedbacks between science, technology and the market might lead inevitably to a self-destruction of human civilization; etc.
Note "This is a considerable revised and enlarged translation of the Polish book Techne."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Intelligent systems reference library ; v.71.
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Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1...Message; 1.2...Some Important Concepts for Further Investigations; 1.3...Examples of Non-paradigmatic Episteme of Technology; 1.4...Concern of a Technician When Reading Texts on Philosophy of Technology; 1.5...A Review of Contents of the Book; References; Part IEpistemological Observations; 2 Preface: New Epoch, It's Conceptual Platform and Episteme; 2.1...Preface; 2.2...New Epoch with Its Conceptual Platform and Episteme; 2.3...Main Elements of a New Conceptual Platform; References; 3 What is ''Technology''?; 3.1...Introduction: Basic Definitions

3.2...Three Different Epistemai3.3...Selected Views of Philosophy of Technology; 3.4...The Feedback Relation of Strict Sciences and Technology; 3.5...Two Loops of Positive Feedback; 3.6...The Problem of Responsibility for Socio-economic Applications of Technology; 3.7...What will be the Technology of Knowledge Civilization Era?; 3.8...New Warnings: What Should We Pay Attention to?; 3.9...Conclusions; References; 4 Delays in Technology Development: Their Impact on the Issues of Determinism, Autonomy and Controllability of Technology; 4.1...Introduction

4.2...The Stages of the Processes of Creation, Production and Use of Technology Products: Tools and Artefacts4.3...Conclusions for Philosophy of Technology and Humanist Education; 4.4...Forecast and Foresight of Technology Development; 4.5...Breakthrough Inventions and Everyday Innovations; References; 5 Rational and Evolutionary Technical Theory of Intuition; 5.1...Introduction; 5.2...Technical and Evolutionary Explanation of Intuition; 5.3...Rational and Evolutionary Definition of Intuition; 5.4...A Model of a Creative Intuitive Decision Process

5.5...Further Conclusions of the Rational Evolutionary Theory of IntuitionReferences; 6 Problems of Metaphysics, Truth and Objectivity; 6.1...Metaphysics of Fundamental Naturalism; 6.2...Truth Versus Hermeneutic Horizon and Perspective; 6.3...Scepticism, Feedback and Naturalism; 6.4...Evolutionary Creation of Knowledge and a New Episteme; References; Part IIElements of Recent Historyof Information Technologies; 7 Telecommunication, Radio Broadcasting, Television; 7.1...Beginnings of Telecommunication, Radio Broadcasting, Television: Important Events

7.2...Social and Conceptual Importance of Telecommunications7.3...The Social and Conceptual Importance of Broadcast Telecommunication, Radio and Television; 7.4...Some Disciplines Related to Telecommunications: Radar Technologies, Biomedical Engineering, Laser and Optical Fibre Technologies; 7.4.1 Radar Technology; 7.4.2 Biomedical Engineering; 7.4.3 Laser and Optical Fibre Technologies; References; 8 Automatic Control, Analog Computers, Robotics: The Concept of Feedback; 8.1...Introduction: Important Events; 8.2...Analog Computers and Automatic Control; 8.3...Robotics and Automation

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