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New Paradigms on Information, Reality and Mind

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Crumpei G. , Gavriluţ A. , Agop M. , Crumpei Tanasă I. C. , Gavriluţ G.

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nr 1

135-148

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We brought arguments in favor of the ontological character of information, along with energy and substance, as well as the structural-phenomenological unity at all scales and levels of reality. We used an interdisciplinary, inductivedeductive methodology, within the broad framework of the naturalistic conception. Our argumentation started from the current reality, which is the impact of information technology, of information networks, of virtual reality and of artificial intelligence, insisting on the role of information in the gnosiological approach. The preponderance of a logical reductionist positivism in scientific research, as well as the exaggerated focus on particle and high energy-physics, but also a certain axiomatic blockage connected to the existence of the immaterial, have made it possible for the problem of information to be almost completely eluded. Even Shannon and Weaver’s (1963) information theory considers information only from a quantitative viewpoint, and only through its relation to entropy and the second law of Thermodynamics. The development of chaos theory, fractal geometry and topology in the field of non-linear dynamics, and especially the spectacular development of information technology in the last two decades, necessitate a systematic analysis of defining information and its importance in the structuring of reality along with energy and substance. From this perspective, all our concepts, from physical reality to psychological imaginary reality, can be coherently understood through the same paradigms, irrespective of whether we are talking about conservation law, the Euclidean dimension, the fractal or topological dimension or the multidimensional processing mechanism through syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and hermeneutic processing of human and artificial language and knowledge. This new paradigm is the informational one, which assumes the existence of a functional, phenomenological, potential background represented by information, and which can be mathematically modeled through topology.

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Pragmatismus jako filozofický základ smíšeného výzkumného designu

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Složilová E.

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nr 1

51-69

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The paper aims at presenting the philosophy of pragmatism as an epistemological framework for mixed methods research. The author starts with brief characteristics of this relatively recent approach to research in the social sciences and uses Morgan’s clarification of the genesis of „metaphysical“ paradigm for qualitative research as a platform for analysing the main reasons why mixed methods research has been strongly criticized and refused. Then she shifts her attention to classical pragmatists – W. James, J. Dewey and Ch. S. Pierce, and makes an attempt to show mixed methods research as a legitimate approach to research in the social sciences having equally important status as quantitative or qualitative research. In order to prove her point, the author gives a detailed analysis of the pragmatists’ theory of inquiry, their understanding of truth, experience and other philosophical categories. She concludes that mixed methods research has great potential to solve research questions whose solution proves impossible for rigid advocates of either of the two currently dominant approaches.

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Logistyka społeczna. Dyskurs paradygmatyczny

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Sadowski A.

Studia Ekonomiczne

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2018

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tom 348

44-53

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Wzrost rangi problemów społecznych we współczesnym świecie, takich jak kryzys migracyjny w Europie czy starzenie się społeczeństwa i wzrost zachorowań na choroby cywilizacyjne, zwrócił uwagę środowiska naukowego na możliwości wykorzystania istniejącego paradygmatu logistyki do wyjaśnienia i rozwiązania problemów społecznych. Logistyka społeczna, stanowiąc propozycję ujęcia podmiotowego społecznie ukierunkowanych logistyk szczegółowych, w których przeważają zagadnienia o charakterze społecznym, zaczyna być uznawana za trzecią „czystą” postać logistyki, obok logistyki wojskowej i gospodarczej. Kontrowersje z tym związane wymagają głębokiej refleksji nad paradygmatem logistyki z perspektywy filozofii nauki. W artykule poddano weryfikacji hipotezę o współistnieniu logistyki społecznej w ramach logistyki wojskowej i gospodarczej, odrzucającą novum logistyki społecznej na poziomie konceptualnym.

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Increased importance of social problems in the modern world, such as migration crisis in Europe, or ageing of the population and increase in the number of civilization diseases has drawn the attention of scientific community to the possibility of using the existing paradigm of logistics to clarify and solve social problems. Social logistics constitutes a proposal of subjective conceptualization of socially-oriented detailed logistics, in which social matters dominate, and begins to be recognized as third, “pure” form of logistics apart from military and economic logistics. The related controversy requires deep reflection on the paradigm of logistics from the perspective of the philosophy of science. In the article one verifies the hypothesis on coexistence of social logistics within the frames of military and economic logistics, rejecting the novum of social logistics as a concept.