Knowledge, Evolution, and Paradox: The Ontology of Language (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature) (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature) - Softcover

DePryck, Koen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791415341 ISBN 13: 9780791415344

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

Investigates the possibility of constructing an interdisciplinary ontology to address such fundamental issues as guidelines for behavior and the validity and scope of knowledge from other than a limited perspective. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

Review:

"It is already clear that postmodernism is an unsatisfactory view of the world: the skepticism, antifoundationalism, and distrust of any form of narrative or argument that has characterized this last phase of modernism cannot long resist its own corrosive critique. What view of the world will succeed postmodernism? To answer this question, it is necessary to take up several challenges abandoned along the way as metaphysical, insoluble in terms of the contemporary science, or politically formidable: the problem of how different disciplinary worlds can belong to the same world, the problem of the apparent incommensurability of different language-games, the problem of the nature of time, the problem of how mind and consciousness can be embodied in the physical brain, the problem of origins and evolution, and above all, the problem of time.

"Koen DePryck's book, in a remarkable synthesis, lays the groundwork for an answer. Using new concepts derived from the study of iterative, chaotic, and probabilistic processes in nature and in the computer, he develops a way of looking at both the sciences and the humanities that fully meets the concerns of the mainstream of modern philosophy, while opening up whole new areas of research. This book joins a handful of important and daring new works that have recently broken with the current conventional wisdom of the humanities, and that chart the altered shape of the academy as it will exist in the twenty-first century." -- Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas

About the Author:

Koen DePryck is President of the Institute of Knowledge Management in Dilbeek, Belgium.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0791415341
• ISBN 13: 9780791415344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206