A redução ao sistema como operação epistêmica na pesquisa descritiva e explicativa em ciência da informação
| Main Authors: | Kern, Vinícius M, Silva, Luciana M, Balbis-Garcia, Paula, Estácio, Letícia S S, Andrade, Wemylinn G F, Denisczwicz, Marta, Günther, Leonardo L, Formoso, Robson G |
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| Other Authors: | Duarte, Zeny, Santos, José Carlos Sales dos, Silva, Silvana Pereira da |
| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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PPGCI-UFBA
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/30773/1/KernEtAl_Enancib2016reducao.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/30773/ |
Daftar Isi:
- The scientific reduction to the individual or atom, typical of analytical, disciplinary science, earned the derogatory designation “reductionism” to denounce its inadequacy to deal with concrete, complex problems. Bunge's systemism is a worldview at variance with reductionism, but also with the “reduction to the whole” of holistic approaches that deny the possibility of explanation through analysis. This article presents the reduction to the system, a fundamental epistemic operation of systemism, with emphasis on its application to information science. We discuss the fundamentals of systemism, particularly its composition-environment-structure-mechanism, or CESM model, which frames systemist reduction. A graduate course on systemist research with CESM is presented, including a new modeling method, illustrated with students' models. We show how to explain systemic effects, even if counterintuitive, claiming that systemist research is in better conditions to do so than its rivals reductionism and holism.