Metadecisions: Rehabilitating EpistemologySpringer Science & Business Media, 6. dec. 2012 - 341 strani Metadecisions: Rehabilitating Epistemology constitutes an epistemological inquiry about the foundations of knowledge of a scientific discipline. This text warns contemporary scientific disciplines that neglecting epistemological issues threatens the viability of their pronouncements and designs. It shows that the processes by which complex artefacts are created require a pluralistic approach to artefact design. 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. Ten cases spanning subjects like Doctor Assisted Suicides (DASs), Advising Women on The Risks of Mammograms, a Deregulation Crusade, The Crash of TWA Flight 800, The Control of The World Wide Web, The Creation of the US Department of Homeland Security, among others, are used to illustrate the application of the metasystem framework to increase knowledge and meaning of fundamental problems. The design of any human activity requires the intervention of several inquiring systems where the manager, the engineer, the scientist, the lawyer, the epistemologist, the ethicist and even the artist contribute to shape how problems in the real-world are formulated, how decisions/metadecisions to solve problems are taken, and finally, how actions are implemented. |
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... metasystem framework requires , at least at the outset , a rather formal language . Regrettably , this approach contradicts a concerted effort throughout the text to introduce abstract ideas from " softer " disciplines without resorting ...
... preponderant expertise or method of reasoning exhibited by the SYSTEM's agents or designers . 4. The SYSTEM's inputs and outputs . The Metasystem A METASYSTEM is an inquiring system whose level. METADECISIONS : Rehabilitating Epistemology.
Rehabilitating Epistemology John P. van Gigch. The Metasystem A METASYSTEM is an inquiring system whose level of abstraction is one level higher than that of the SYSTEM . SYSTEM and METASYSTEM must always be considered in relation to ...
... METASYSTEM from META - METAS YSTEM 3. Criteria to define METAS YSTEM 4. Set of alternatives and objective function to solve the METAS YSTEM's fundamental problem PROBLEM : Selecting SYSTEM's Design from Set of Alternative Designs 1 ...
... metasystem for the REAL - WORLD inquiring system . The EPISTEMOLOGY inquiring system is the metasystem for the METAMODELING inquiring system and so on . Figure 1.8 is a representation of the hierarchy of inquiring systems , where the ...
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LEVELS OF LOGIC IN A PROBLEM | 39 |
artefacts are designed within inquiring systems which can be differentiated | 74 |
cognitive functions which are instrumental in the acquisition of knowledge | 87 |
Chapter 5 The Use of Cognitive Functions to Define and Formulate | 117 |
THE PARADIGM OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES | 145 |
THE PARADIGM OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES | 165 |
in the domain of Aesthetics where artefacts need to be beautiful as well | 193 |
THE NEGLECT OF EPISTEMOLOGY | 217 |
THE PARADIGM OF INFORMATION SCIENCES | 239 |
ETHICS | 263 |
AESTHETICS | 287 |
EPILOGUE | 307 |
GLOSSARY | 309 |
INDEX | 337 |
THE PROCESS OF QUANTIFICATION | 183 |
Explicit and Implicit Quantification We take seriously the challenge that | 184 |