{"product_id":"technen-elements-of-recent-history-of-information-technologies-with-epistemological-conclusions-von-andrzej-piotr-wierzbicki","title":"Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions","description":"\n                \u003cp\u003eThe book expresses the conviction that \u003ci\u003ethe art of creating tools – \u003c\/i\u003eGreek\u003ci\u003e techne – \u003c\/i\u003echanges its character\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etogether 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 \u003ci\u003ethree waves \u003c\/i\u003eof agricultural, industrial and information civilization). This is expressed by the title \u003ci\u003eTechne\u003csub\u003en\u003c\/sub\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof the book, where \u003ci\u003en \u003c\/i\u003edenotes a subsequent civilization epoch. \u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eDuring last fifty years we observed a decomposition of the old \u003ci\u003eepisteme \u003c\/i\u003e(understood as a way of creating and interpreting knowledge characteristic for a given civilization epoch) of \u003ci\u003emodernism, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was an episteme typical for industrial civilization. Today, the world is differently understood by the representativesof 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 \u003ci\u003etwo cultures, \u003c\/i\u003ebut \u003ci\u003ethree different episteme.\u003c\/i\u003e\n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003cp\u003eThe book includes discussions of many issues related to such general perspective, such as \u003ci\u003ewhat is technology proper; what is intuition from a perspective of technology and of evolutionary naturalism; what are the reasons for and how large are the delays \u003c\/i\u003ebetween\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea fundamental invention and its broad social utilization; \u003ci\u003ewhat is the fundamental logical error\u003c\/i\u003e (using paradoxes that are not real, only apparent) of the tradition of sceptical philosophy; \u003ci\u003ewhat are rational foundations\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand examples of emergence of order out of chaos; whether civilization development \u003c\/i\u003ebased on two positive feedbacks between science, technology and the market \u003ci\u003emight lead inevitably to a self-destruction of human civilization; \u003c\/i\u003eetc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783319090320\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783319384832\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783319090320","offer_id":40571032109149,"sku":"9783319090320","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover - 9783319384832","offer_id":39420237414493,"sku":"9783319384832","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/da13713d-ed4e-4d9e-be7c-0b4ce086759f.jpg?v=1775798287","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/technen-elements-of-recent-history-of-information-technologies-with-epistemological-conclusions-von-andrzej-piotr-wierzbicki","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}