Cognitive Informatics and Wisdom Development: Interdisciplinary Approaches: Interdisciplinary Approaches

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Targowski, Andrew
IGI Global, Dec 31, 2010 - Psychology - 260 pages

Since wisdom is the ultimate human virtue, its application is important for humans and civilization.

Cognitive Informatics and Wisdom Development: Interdisciplinary Approaches argues that wise civilization cannot function without wise people and vice versa, that wise people cannot function without positive conditions for the development of wise civilization. Using the cognitive informatics approach as a basis for the investigation of wisdom, this book offers solutions on how to study and evaluate the state of wisdom in 21st century society and the requirements for wise civilization and its monitoring systems.

 

Contents

The RoleOriented Approaches Towards Wisdom
1
The Philosophical Approach Towards Wisdom
34
The Cognitive Informatics Approach Towards Wisdom
66
Wisdom as a Mental Tool of the Symbolic Species
90
Civilization Wisdom in the 21st Century
107
Human Wisdom in the 21st Century
122
Will Wisdom Save The Human Project?
137
Can Wisdom Be Taught?
152
Is Business Wise in the 21st Century?
162
Towards the Wise Civilization
185
Monitoring of Wise Civilization
220
About the Author
239
Index
240
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Andrew Targowski, Ph.D., is a professor of Business Information Systems at Western Michigan University. He has published many papers and 22 books on information technology, business, philosophy, and civilization in English and Polish. He is a pioneer of business computing and inventor of INFOSTRADA (Poland 1972), which triggered the Information Superhighway wave in the U.S. in the 1990s. He investigates the role of information and wisdom in organizations and civilization. He was Chairman of the Advisory Council of Information Resource Management Society (1996-2003) and is President of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (2007-present). [Editor]

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