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Internet in Its Scientific Branch: Prediction and Prescription in the Face of Complexity

https://doi.org/10.14201/art2018717597

Abstract

Among the three main branches of the Internet - scientific, technological, and social -  the scientific area has received little attention. This paper makes a philosophico-methodological analysis of this branch of the network of networks. The approach is made from the angle of the sciences of the artificial, which is not usually considered in philosophy of science. Furthermore, it takes into account the relevance of the sciences of the Internet - and the disciplines that that use this network to enlarge their field of action or to create novelties in a strict sense - as applied sciences. Thus, the paper pays an explicit attention to prediction and prescription, which are keys in dealing with the structural complexity of the Internet - epistemological and ontological - and the dynamic complexity, which is furrowed by historicity, rather than being a mere evolution.
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Wenceslao J. González

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Universidad de A Coruña, Spain
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of A Coruña). He is a Full Member of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences/International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences. He has been a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective” (2008-2013). He has been named a Distinguished Researcher by the Main National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru).Gonzalez has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (LSE), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science and Visiting Scholar of the Department of Philosophy (U. Pittsburgh). He has given lectures at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec, Helsinki and Nevada at Reno. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the Universities of Uppsala, New South Wales, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ), Vienna, and Beijing. He received the Research Award in Humanities given in 1995 by the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain). He was President of the Committee of Doctoral Programs at the University of A Coruña (2002-2004).His publications include the edition of 37 volumes, among them Philosophy and Methodology of Economics (1998); Lakatos's Philosophy Today (2001); Science, Technology and Society: A Philosophical Perspective (2005); Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy and Methodology of Science (2006); Evolutionism: Present Approaches (2008), The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science (2010); Conceptual Revolutions: From Cognitive Science to Medicine (2011); Scientific Realism and Democratic Society: The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher (2011); Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science (2014); and New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics: Theoretical and Practical (2015). He is the editor of the Gallaecia Series: Studies in Contemporary Philosophy and Methodology of Science and co-editor of the European Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
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