French and Other Perspectives in Praxiology

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280 Seiten

2004
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0248-4 (ISBN)

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Volume 12 in this distinguished series explores current topics in praxiology as studied in France and elsewhere. As is characteristic of contemporary praxiology, contributors both investigate new topics and use new methods to re-examine older approaches.Part 1 is composed of three sections by French scholars. These deal with humans as a subject of action as well as a subject of knowledge. In respecting the particular domains of psychology and praxiology, they demonstrate how they converge to shed light on the human being as an individual or as part of a group. The first section discusses relations between individual action and collective action, while the second section is concerned with relations between the act, objects, and space, and explores work spaces, production spaces, office spaces, and social spaces. The third section examines relations between action and cognition, a domain considered to be little understood in general. Finally, the role of mathematics in decision-making is discussed as a determinate of the praxiological process.The second part is composed of contributions by scholars from Finland, Great Britain, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United States. The topics are: how praxiology helps economists understand cooperative actions and related issues of different responsibilities; how and to what an extent university education creates conditions for competitive advantage in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and how problems of corporate governance are approached in the region; how innovation influences competence in the region of established economy in Spain; and how information systems constitute a multi-agent system. Finally, a formal analysis of praxiological dimensions in light of the fuzzy logic approach is discussed.

Victor Alexandre is professor of social psychology at the University of Franche-Comte (Besancon, France). His publications include Elements de praxeologie, Les echelles d'attitude and The Roots of Praxiology in cooperation with Wojciech W. Gasparski (available from Transaction). Wojciech W. Gasparski is professor of humanities at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and editor-in-chief of the Praxiology series. He has published numerous volumes and over three hundred articles and conference papers.

1: The French Perspective; Introduction; The Categories of Collective Action /1; Efficient Action in Social Work: Individual Subjects and Social Subjects; Social Logics and the Science of Action. Praxiology in the Service of Social Work?; Work Spaces 1; The Tool, Thought and Action; Action and Commitment Theory; 8: How Do We Know What We Are Doing?; Mathematics of Action and Empirical Reality 1; 2: The Other Perspectives; Introduction; Foundations of Corporate Integrity: A Praxiological Approach 1; Building up Competitive Advantage in the New Europe: The Role of Higher Education; Innovation and Competence; 14: Organisational Semiotics and Multi-agent Systems in Action; 15: Developing Corporate Behaviours: Corporate Governance Reform at Telekomunikacja Polska; 16: Fuzziness and the Principles of Praxiology 1; Notes about the Authors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2004
Reihe/Serie	Praxiology
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-7658-0248-1 / 0765802481
ISBN-13	978-0-7658-0248-4 / 9780765802484
Zustand	Neuware