Metadecisions: Rehabilitating Epistemology constitutes an
epistemological inquiry about the foundations of knowledge of a
scientific discipline. This text warns contemporary scientific
disciplines that neglecting epistemological issues threatens the
viability of their pronouncements and designs.
It shows that the processes by which complex artefacts are
created require a pluralistic approach to artefact design.
It argues that viable solutions to fundamental problems in each
discipline require cooperation, creativity and respect for
contributions from all walks of life, all levels of logic and all
standards of rigor - be they in the natural sciences, the social
sciences, engineering sciences, management, the law or political
sciences.
Several true cases, obtained from different walks of life are used
to illustrate logic levels in problems and how the application of
the process of modeling/metamodeling helps to conceptualize problem
dysfunctions and to convert decisions into metadecisions.
Ten cases spanning subjects like Doctor Assisted Suicides
(DASs), Advising Women on The Risks of Mammograms, a Deregulation
Crusade, The Crash of TWA Flight 800, The Control of The World Wide
Web, The Creation of the US Department of Homeland Security, among
others, are used to illustrate the application of the metasystem
framework to increase knowledge and meaning of fundamental
problems.
The design of any human activity requires the intervention of
several inquiring systems where the manager, the engineer, the
scientist, the lawyer, the epistemologist, the ethicist and even
the artist contribute to shape how problems in the real-world are
formulated, how decisions/metadecisions to solve problems are
taken, and finally, how actions are implemented.
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