Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology

Paper presented by Warfield that criticizes shallow, hasty technology, which produces ‘invasive systems’ loaded with potential disaster. Warfield advocates a technology based on ‘deep logic’ which utilizes the tools of “Generic Design Science,” a continuous reevaluation process. Presented at 1989 Simposio Internacao de Comunicao Significao e Conhecimento face as Technologias de Informacao, 13-15 Sept., Lisbon. Later published in a proceedings of the conference.

For further information find Warfield, J. N. "Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology." Proceedings of the (International Symposium: Communication, Meaning and Knowledge versus Information Technology) Simpósio Internacional de Comunicaçao Significaçao e Conhecimento Face as Technológias de Informaçao. Lisbon, Portugal. September 13-15 (1989). Secçao I. [IASIS 89/005] when using link http://www.gmu.edu/depts/t-iasis/biblio/a-biblio.htm.

A PDF version for download is not available.  A published offprint of full text and also Warfield’s working paper manuscripts are at Fenwick Library, Box 94/Folders 2 & 10, C0016, SCRC, George Mason University Libraries

MEMO re Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology. The paper was presented at 1989 Simposio Internacao de Comunicao Significao e Conhecimento face as Technologias de Informacao, 13-15 September, Lisbon. It was published in a Proceedings volume in 1992, and the 1992 offprint was donated to GMU & Ariz libraries in 2001.

Warfield had original typed manuscripts for this article stored in his PEIRCE 2 notebook which I sent to GMU's Warfield Collection in 2007, because they showed in author's handwriting the progression toward the final document. So, in the shipment with the Peirce papers, I packed and sent the original working papers in 2007, in a separately marked folder titled: "Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology - working papers" this folder is now in Warfield Collection Box 94, Folder 10. (Ideally the working papers should be in Box 50, Folder 2 with the 1992 offprint, but I sent the items to Fenwick at different time periods, so they are separated.)

The 1992 publisher's offprint arrived with slightly different citation from the one we had used since 1989. Actually it is not a real offprint, just a real nice photocopy with a printed card holding Associacao Portuguesa logo, and signed by Alberto Joaquim de Oliveira e Sousa.

Here is 1989 citation we had been using,  based on the  1989 date of the conference.

Tecnologias da Informacao e Sociedad: Proc Simposio Internacao de Comunicao, Significao e Conhecimento, Seccao I, Lisbon, Portugal (1989)pp. 542-549.

Here is the complete 1992 citation, the date of its formal publication in Portugal which we will use in the future for this paper:

In Lopes-Alves, Joao, Ed., Information Technology & Society, Simposia International de Lisboa/Lisbon International Simposium, 1989, Associacao portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das comunicaoes and Sociedad portuguesa de filosofia, Lisbon, Portugal, 1992. pp. 542-550.

My language skills failed when I attempted to locate a Portugese DOI number, perhaps there is none.  I did find a brief biosketch of Lopez-Alves the editor of the Proceedings volume: Joao Lopes Alves practiced law and taught at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon.  He is currently a member of the Center of Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon, and Distinguished Guest Lecturer at the Political Studies Institute of the Portugese Catholic University.  His books include Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, Percursos de Razao Politica (1983)  O Estado da Razao, Da ideia hegeliana de Estado a, Etica & contrato social (2005) He was editor of the published proceedings for two conferences: Information Technology & Society, Theory, Uses, Impacts (1992) and Ethics and the Future of Democracy (1998) and  has also published a number of articles on Law and Moral Philosophy.   (R.W. circa 2001, updated 2007 and also Dec 22, 2017)

 

 

 

 

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