[Fis] Søren Brier, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School is defending his doctoral thesis: "Cybersemiotics - Why information is not enough!"

Associated professor PhD, Søren Brier, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School is defending his doctoral thesis

"Cybersemiotics - Why information is not enough!"

A Trans-Disciplinary Approach to Information, Cognition and Communication Studies, through an Integration of Niklas Luhmann's Communication Theory with C. S. Peirce's Semiotics.

What information, cognition, communication, intelligence and meaning are, is a very old philosophical problem. But today these questions, since Shannon's information theory and Wiener's cybernetics, are formulated in the trans-disciplinary context of computers, information systems, and ultimately the Internet demanding a framework encompassing the complex area of information, cognition and communication science. The current cognitive science information processing paradigm is criticized from a phenomenological and ethological point of view as being an insufficient foundation of information science because it lacks an evolutionary theory of embodied first person experience and signification.

As a constructive alternative is formulated a new trans-disciplinary framework (Cybersemiotics). This is based on an integration of a modernized version of Peirce's semiotics in the form of biosemiotics, which is integrated with Luhmann's communicational systems theory. elements from embodied cognitive semantics, ethology and language game theory are also used. The theory development is embedded in an ongoing philosophy of "science" reflection on the possibility of a non-reductionistic Transdisciplinarity. Opting for a transdisciplinary framework, after ALL postulates a sort of unity of sciences at a metalevel distinguishing the natural and social sciences as well has humanities from other symbolic generalized media such as politics, art and religion.

Cybersemiotic provides a framework contributing to information and knowledge management systems design as well as for a general theory of cognition and communication.

A long Danish and a shorter English summary can be read at cbs.dk <http://www.cbs.dk/forskning_viden/fakulteter_institutter_centre/institutter/oekonomi/lpf/menu/medarbejdere/menu/videnskabelige_medarbejdere/videnskabelige_medarbejdere/lektorer/soeren_brier> .

Assessment Committee

Professor, Ole Fogh Kirkeby, CBS (Chairman)

Professor, Dick Baecker, Universit�t Witten/Herdecke

Professor, John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Official opponents

Professor, John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Professor, Dr.rer.soc. Dick Baecker, Universit�t Witten/Herdecke

Best Regards

Jens Aaris Thisted

Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Time and place:

6. March 2006

Time 13.00

Copenhagen Business School

Tuborg Lecture Hall 2.02

Solbjerg Plads 3

2000 Frederiksberg

Directions:

Click here <http://kort.krak.dk/ml/link.asp?id=6dec58ce2c814c72b135e56726eaa29c> to see a map of the area.

Registration:

Everyone is welcome to participate at the public defense. No registration is needed.

Arranged by:

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Cand. Scient. PhD in Philosophy of Science Søren Brier, holds a master in biology from University of Copenhagen from 1979 and a PhD in philosophy of Science from Roskilde University (RUC). He has since august 2003 been an associate professor in the department for Management, Politics and Philosophy.

He is the founder and ed. in chief of the interdisciplinary quarterly journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 1992- , co-founder of The International Association for Biosemiotic Studies in 2005, a trustee for the American Society for Cybernetics. member of the board for the Sociocybernetics Group (ISA) and Foundation of Information Science (FIS)group. He is on the editorial board of Systems Research and Behavioral Science, J. of Biosemiotic and TripleC (Cognition, Communication and Cooperation.

Home page with CV, publication list and full text electronic articles can be found here <http://www.cbs.dk/staff/soeren_brier> .

Venlig hilsen / Best wishes

Søren Brier

Copenhagen Business School , Management, Politics and Philosophy, Porcel�nshaven 18 A , DK-2000 Frederiksberg.

Office-phone +45 3815 2208 Cell 28564282

Ed. in Chief of Cybernetics & Human Knowing : home page:

http://www.imprint-academic.com/C&HK

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