Epistemology, Knowledge and the Impact of Interaction

This volume offers a follow up and response to the challenge posed in the first volume of this series, aptly namedLogic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science edited by S. Rahman et.al. and develops upon arguments proposed in additional preceding LEUS volumes. The series’ first volume posited that one way to recover the connections between logic, philosophy of sciences, and sciences is to acknowledge the host of alternative logics which are currently being developed. This is witnessed by the volumes,The Age of Alternative Logics edited by J. van Benthem et al., and The (Anti-)Realism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics edited by G. Primiero et al., particularly in the intersection of knowledge and epistemology and where the notion of knowledge is understood as resulting from interaction. Furthermore, this volume serves to join the impressive philosophical and mathematical results from Constructive Type Theory that launches a new epistemic approach to logic, the foundations of mathematics, and epistemology. This view is taken up by the volumes, among others, Epistemology versus Ontology by P. Lindstrom,Judgment and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic by M van der Schaar. However, the picture is incomplete as it also includes the role of epistemic role of abduction and argumentation, both linked to the non-monotonic approaches to dynamic of knowledge.

Juan Redmond is full professor at the University of Valparaiso, Institute oh Philosophy and research fellow at the Conicyt (Chile). He is graduated in Philosophy by the University of Cuyo (Argentina), Master in Literature by the Faculty of Etudes Romanes by the University of Lille 3 (France), with a dissertation untitled Fictions in the work of Jorge Luis Borges: for an artefactual approach and PhD in 2010 in Philosophy, University of Lille 3 (France), with a dissertation on Dialogical logic of fictions. Olga Maria Pombo Martins is graduated in Philosophy by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, Master in Modern Philosophy by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences by the New University of Lisbon, with a dissertation untitled Leibniz and the Problem of a Universal Language, PhD in 1998 in History and Philosophy of Education, University of Lisbon, with a dissertation on Unity of Sciences and disciplinar configuration of Knowledges. At 2009 she presented her Aggregation in History and Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). She coordinated the scientific projects Encyclopedia and Hypertex (FCT- Sapiens, 1999-2002), Scientific Culture. Conceptual Migrations and Social Contaminations (FCT - Sapiens, 2002-2005) and Image in Science and Art (FCT - PTDC, 2006-2011). Since 2003, she is the coordinator of the research Centre for philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL). She was the president of the FCUL Department Autonomous unit for History and Philosophy of Sciences from 2007 up until 2012. Angel Nepomuceno is Professor at the University of Sevilla, Departement of Logic and Philosophy of Science. His global research line is the interdisciplinary field Logic, Language and Information, specifically Logic (classical and non-classical), Argumentation Theory, Epistemology and theory of scientific knowledge.