Beschreibung:
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.
A Pluralistic Approach to Artefact Design.- Abstraction, Representation and Metamodel1ng.- Levels of Logic in a Problem.- Cognitive Functions.- The Use of Cognitive Functions to Define and Formulate a Problem.- The Paradigm of the Physical Sciences.- The Paradigm of the Social Sciences.- The Process of Quantification.- The Neglect of Epistemology.- The Paradigm of Information Sciences.- Ethics.- Aesthetics.- Epilogue.