The Theory of Epistemic Fields: Fuzzy-Semantic Foundations of Intellectual Categories and Knowledge Factories...

— —

Kofi Kissi Dompere

The Theory of Epistemic Fields

Fuzzy-Semantic Foundations of Intellectual Categories and Knowledge Factories

Kofi Kissi Dompere

$385.95 $308.92

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Springer International Publishing AG
14 August 2024

Cybernetics & systems theory; Probability & statistics; Maths for engineers; Artificial intelligence

Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

The book is about the development of the theory of epistemic fields with the corresponding relational and information fields as a framework for the understanding of strategies and tactics of the theory of knowing as the production of intellectual investment flows and the theory of knowledge accumulation as the production of intellectual capital stocks in systems of factories and departments providing the foundations for the development of open algorithms in the open space of problem-solution dualities. The concepts and the roles of thinking and reasoning with curiosity, creativity, hope, Ill-posed problems, phantom problems, unsolved problems, misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and courage are introduced, defined, and analyzed on the cognitive journeys over the space of ignorance-knowledge dualities, where dualistic-polar conflicts between duals in the space of ignorance-knowledge dualities are resolved with the instruments of fuzzy optimization, the results of which are used to induced the zones of ignorance, the zones of knowledge, and the zones of contentions. A complete development of the set of connecting paths of spaces and sub-spaces is provided, where all varieties, categories, and spaces reside in dualistic-polar structures with knowledge stock viewed as a single tree with the same roots, one trunk, many branches, and a fruit cocktail. The ontological space contains the space of actual-potential dualities as the primary category of knowing, and the epistemological space contains the space of imagination-reality dualities as the derived category of knowing within the space of primary-derived dualities. The space of potentials contains the space of imaginations which contains the sub-spaces of possibility-impossibility, probability-improbability, and possibility-probability dualities with corresponding spaces of necessity-freedom and anticipation-expectation dualities leading to the conception of the possible-world-impossible-world dualities in the space of semantic-non-semantic dualities. This book is also a continuation of the sequence of my works on the theories of paradigms of thought, rationality, info-statics, info-dynamics, entropy, problem-solution dualities in self-contained mathematics and philosophy, and their relational connectivity to information, language, knowing, knowledge, cognitive practices and open maching learning relative to nominalism, and the space of construction-reduction dualities over the spaces of fundamental-applied, production-consumption, input-output, and cost-benefit dualities.

By: Kofi Kissi Dompere
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2024 ed.
Volume: 498
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783031424694
ISBN 10: 3031424697
Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Pages: 515
Publication Date: 14 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kofi Kissi Dompere is a professor emeritus of economics at Howard University. He holds a doctoral degree in economics, master’s degree in applied mathematics, master’s degree in business administration in finance, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics, all degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia. He has authored several scientific and scholarly works in economics, philosophy, decision theory, and fuzzy mathematics. He is the winner of 2006 Cheikh Anta Diop Award for excellence in scholarship. He has a number of published monographs. He is a resource person for UNITAR (United Nations) and an economic consultant in the areas of cost-benefit analysis, national income accounts, development, and macroeconomics. He is the founder of The Research Institute of Information Decision and Economic Sciences (RIIDES) in which he serves as a distinguished research professor. He is an active participant in discussions on fundamental problems in physics.