Projects / Programmes
Formal Structures od Models of Reality, Knowledge, and Mind
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.10.00 |
Humanities |
Philosophy |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H120 |
Humanities |
Systematic philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, ideology |
| H150 |
Humanities |
Philosophy of special sciences |
logic, mathematics, form, structure, knowledge, model, space-time, awareness, abstract object
Researchers (6)
Organisations (2)
Abstract
The project encompasses investigations of inter-relations between formal structures, abstract objects and structures of reality, knowledge and mind. It includes formal-logical, philosophico-mathematical, epistemological, ontological, cosmological and cognitive investigations of these structures. It will enable a more systematic comparison of these structures, the ordering of structures according to their complexity, dimensions, basic elements and relations. A very important part of the project is a formal description of the ''logical space'' of formal structures. One of the aims of the project is to develop some models for the recognition of logical and other formal structures in human mind. These models could help in the development of expert systems and computer models of the mind.
The project consists of five sub-projects:
- logical structures in formal and philosophical logic (A. Ule) (analysis of classical and non-classical logical systems, analysis of philosophical arguments, logic of processes and self-reference, analysis of epistemological structures in the everyday and scientific knowledge, consciousness as logical operator, transcendental basis of logical structures)
- cognitive philosophy and models of mind (M. Potrc) (connectionist analysis of cognitive structures and processes, ontological schemes in cognitive science, synthesis of classical and connectionist models of mind)
- phenomenological concepts of logic (F. Jerman) (analysis and identification of the main forms of phenomenological logic and its comparison with the modern formal logic)
- epistemological analysis of the structures of space-time (M. Uršic) (linking the modern scientific cosmology to the philosophical theories and paradigms, many-worlds and possible worlds theories, logical and conceptual analysis of causal and temporal strings)
- existence of abstract objects (Z. Knap) (analysis of fundamental abstract objects in certain mathematico-logical systems, relations of science, philosophy and mind to these objects and formal systems)
- structures of consciousness and self-awareness and their relations to body (B. Kante) (relations between the perspectives of the first and the third person, and their role in the description/explanation of the consciousness. Use of metaphors in science, the role of the ''computer metaphor'' in the cognitive science).
