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Decision Support versus Knowledge Creation Support
After introductory remarks on interactive computerized decision support and the concept of supporting creativity, this chapter briefly describes the...
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Basic Dimensions of Creative Space
This chapter, after introductory remarks, starts with a review of the diverse meanings of the concepts knowledge and technology, since Creative Space...
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A Vision of the New Civilization Era
This chapter is organized as follows. After stressing the importance of having a vision on the verge of the new era of knowledge civilization, we...
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A New Role of Systems Science Informed Systems Approach
This chapter is organized as follows. We show first that, while systems science is by its definition interdisciplinary, a split into soft systems...
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Rational Theory of Intuition and Its Epistemological Consequences
This chapter explains and develops the Rational Theory of Intuition introduced in (Wierzbicki 1992, 1997). After preliminary comments, it is...
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Preliminaries
This is an introductory chapter. We present first a short comparison of the problem of knowledge and technology creation versus the problem of...
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Further Dimensions of Creative Space
This chapter is organized as follows: in preliminary remarks we recall the I5 or Pentagram System (Nakamori 2000) and note that two of its...
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Conclusions
The book is dedicated to the theory of knowledge creation and The following summarizes what we feel are the most important conclusions of this book....
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Strategic justice, conventions, and game theory: introduction to a Synthese topical collection
Evolutionary, game-theoretic approaches to justice and the social contract have become increasingly popular in contemporary moral and political...
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Experts or Authorities? The Strange Case of the Presumed Epistemic Superiority of Artificial Intelligence Systems
The high predictive accuracy of contemporary machine learning-based AI systems has led some scholars to argue that, in certain cases, we should grant...
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Addendum to ‘On the Nonreality of the PBR Theorem’: Disproof by Generic Counterexample
The PBR theorem is widely seen as one of the most important no-go theorems in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Recently, in Cabbolet (Found Phys...
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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Interpretation plays a central role in using scientific models to explain natural phenomena: Meaning must be bestowed upon a model in terms of what it...
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Exploring the transition: biology, technology, and epistemic activities
By focusing on biorobotics, this article explores the epistemological foundations necessary to support the transition from biological models to...
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Quantum mechanics, radiation, and the equivalence proof
This paper re-evaluates the formative year of quantum mechanics—from Heisenberg’s first paper on matrix mechanics to Schrödinger’s equivalence...
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In defense of humean non-universal laws
In this paper, I raise a novel objection to David Lewis’s Humean account of laws. The objection is that non-universal laws are metaphysically...
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Measure for Measure: Operationalising Cognitive Realism
This paper develops a measure of realism from within the framework of cognitive structural realism (CSR). It argues that in the context of CSR,...
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Quantum Ontology: A Modal Bundle-Theorist Relational Proposal
Quantum mechanics poses several challenges in ontological elucidation. Contextuality threatens determinism and favors realism about possibilia ....
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An all-purpose framework for affordances. Reconciling the behavioral and the neuroscientific stories
Research on the concept of affordance generated different interpretations, which are due to different stories aimed at describing how this notion...
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Interpersonal independence of knowledge and belief
We show that knowledge satisfies interpersonal independence , meaning that a non-trivial sentence describing one agent’s knowledge cannot be...