Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9783642441042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 520 str.

Rudolf Seising; Veronica Sanz Gonzalez

Opis

The field of Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences is at a turning point. The strong distinction between "science" and "humanities" has been criticized from many fronts and, at the same time, an increasing cooperation between the so-called "hard sciences" and "soft sciences" is taking place in a wide range of scientific projects dealing with very complex and interdisciplinary topics. In the last fifteen years the area of Soft Computing has also experienced a gradual rapprochement to disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and also in the field of Medicine, Biology and even the Arts, a phenomenon that did not occur much in the previous years.The collection of this book presents a generous sampling of the new and burgeoning field of Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences, bringing together a wide array of authors and subject matters from different disciplines. Some of the contributors of the book belong to the scientific and technical areas of Soft Computing while others come from various fields in the humanities and social sciences such as Philosophy, History, Sociology or Economics.Rudolf Seising received a Ph.D. degree in philosophy of science and a postdoctoral lecture qualification (PD) in history of science from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
He is an Adjoint Researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres (Asturias), Spain.Veronica Sanz earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). At the moment she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Science, Technology and Society Center in the University of California at Berkeley.Veronica Sanz earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). At the moment she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Science, Technology and Society Center in the University of California at Berkeley.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction.- Part II General Overviews of Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences.- Part III Philosophy, Logic and Fuzzy Logic.- Part IV Soft Computing, Natural Language and Perceptions.- Part V Soft Models in Social Sciences and Economics.- Part VI Soft Computing and Life Sciences.- Part VII Soft Computing and Arts.

O autorze

Dr. Rudolf Seising studierte Mathematik, Physik und Philosophie in Bochum, war Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Fakultät für Informatik der Universität der Bundeswehr München und ist jetzt Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften derselben Universität; 1995 promovierte er an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München im Fach Wissenschaftstheorie.