Metadecisions : rehabilitating epistemology
It argues that viable solutions to fundamental problems in each discipline require cooperation, creativity and respect for contributions from all walks of life, all levels of logic and all standards of rigor - be they in the natural sciences, the social sciences, engineering sciences, management, the law or political sciences.
eBook, English, ©2003
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, ©2003
1 online resource
9780306474583, 0306474581
1012480156
A Pluralistic Approach to Artefact Design.- Abstraction, Representation and Metamodel1ng.- Levels of Logic in a Problem.- Cognitive Functions.- The Use of Cognitive Functions to Define and Formulate a Problem.- The Paradigm of the Physical Sciences.- The Paradigm of the Social Sciences.- The Process of Quantification.- The Neglect of Epistemology.- The Paradigm of Information Sciences.- Ethics.- Aesthetics.- Epilogue.
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