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  title info:
    title: Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions
  name:
    name part: Wierzbicki, Andrzej Piotr.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 320 p. 30 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The book expresses the conviction that the art of creating tools – Greek techne – 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 – and discussion – 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 perspect…
  note: by Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Computational intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Computational Intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  classification: Q342
  classification: 006.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 71
  identifier: 9783319090337
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09033-7
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    record creation date: 140725
    record change date: 20151204180826.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-09033-7