BazTech - Yadda

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Forecasting in economic sciences in the context of chaos theory

Nowak M.

Organizacja i Zarządzanie : kwartalnik naukowy

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2018

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nr 3

95--105

EN

The aim of the article is to determine the epistemological status of forecasting in economic sciences in the context of chaos theory. Achieving the aim required the use of logical analysis and conceptual construction. The article defines two criteria for recognising a given system as being chaotic. The first one (subjective) concerns the appearance of the complexity characteristic of indeterminism. The second one (objective) concerns the occurrence of the sensitivity of the system to the initial conditions. The study examines the occurrence of both traits in economic systems and finally concludes that the epistemological status of forecasting in economic sciences is negative.

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Dwie tradycje naukowego poznawania świata. Studium przypadku powstania i recepcji mechaniki kwantowej w latach 1925–1927, na podstawie dyskusji Wernera Heisenberga i Alberta Einsteina

Krajniak W.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2014

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R. 59, nr 3

7--36

EN

The purpose of this article is the analyses of discussion between Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg in the period 1925-1927. Their disputes, relating to the sources of scientific knowledge, its methods and the value of knowledge acquired in this way, are part of the characteristic for the European science discourse between rationalism and empirism. On the basis of some sources and literature on the subject, the epistemological positions of both scholars in the period were reconstructed. This episode, yet poorly known, is a unique example of scientific disputes, whose range covers a broad spectrum of methodological problems associated with the historical development of science. The conducted analysis sheds some light on the source of popularity of logical empirism in the first half of the 20th century. A particular emphasis is placed on the impact of the neopositivist ideas which reflect Heisenberg's research program, being the starting point for the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The main assumption of logical empirism, concerning acquisition of scientific knowledge only by means of empirical procedures and logical analysis of the language of science, in view of the voiced by Einstein arguments, bears little relationship with actual testing practices in the historical aspect of the development of science. The criticism of Heisenberg's program, carried out by Einstein, provided arguments for the main critics of the neopositivist ideal and contributed to the bankruptcy of the idea of logical empirism, thereby starting a period of critical rationalism prosperity, arising from criticism of neopositivism and alluding to Einstein's ideas.

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Filozofia zrównoważonego rozwoju : preliminaria

Gawor L.

Problemy Ekorozwoju

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2010

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vol. 5, nr 2

69-76

PL

Artykuł jest próbą przedstawienia zasadniczych filozoficznych tez, które implicite lub explicite znajdują się u podstaw idei zrównoważonego rozwoju. Obok zasygnalizowanych założeń metafizycznych, epistemologicznych, historiozoficznych oraz antropologicznych, uwaga szczególnie została zwrócona na aksjologiczną podbudowę zrównoważonego rozwoju. W zakończeniu omawiana koncepcja została ukazana jako współczesna wersja oświeceniowej optymistycznej filozofii społecznej.

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The article is an attempt to present principal philosophical theses which implicite or explicite are the basis of sustainable development idea. Among assumptions concerning metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of history and anthropology, also axiological foundation of sustainable development is highlighted. In the final part discussed idea is presented as modern version of Enlightenment's optimistic social philosophy.