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Social Fuzziology

Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity

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Authors:
  1. Vladimir Dimitrov

    1. University of Western Sydney, South Penrith DC, Australia

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  2. Bob Hodge

    1. University of Western Sydney, South Penrith DC, Australia

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (STUDFUZZ, volume 107)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Introduction to Social Fuzziology

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 1-45

  3. Bridging the Study of Complexity with Social Fuzziology

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 47-75

  4. Understanding Fuzziness of Ourselves

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 77-98

  5. Understanding Fuzziness of Society

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 99-130

  6. Case Studies: Understanding Fuzzy Social Categories

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 131-142

  7. Fuzziness of the West and the East

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 143-166

  8. Key Terms in the Language of Fuzziology

    • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge
    Pages 167-179

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 181-188
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About this book

Fuzziology studies the fuzziness inherent in what we know about ourselves, the sources and nature of our experience, our thoughts and feelings, drives for understanding and urges to create and realise our potential. This kind of fuzziness is at the core of our existence, at the essence of our humanness. It affects any field of human activity, be it mathematical study of fuzzy equations and fuzzy integrals; engineering design and implementation of fuzzy logic-based methodologies; fuzzy control systems or fuzzy robots. Social fuzziology investigates the role of fuzziness in understanding the dynamic complexity of human existence in the social world. It is a study of the nexus between the complex demands of life -individual and social -and the fuzziness of thinking. Since human evolution over 2 billion years has seen the co-evolution of social complexity with human language and thought, it is likely that the fuzziness of language and thought is especially intimately formed by the demands of social complexity, just as social complexity is sustained by the inherent fuzziness of language and thought. Social fuzziology is not simply one field of application of fuzziology. Given the initial state of the development of fuzziology, social fuzziology needs to develop hand in hand with fuzziology, each helping to advance the other.

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"It is a book on postmodern philosophy which employs the terminology of soft computing and the theory of chaos as a metaphor and analogy. … The authors’ ambition is to start bridging the gap between sciences and humanities. … the ideas exposed in the book may enrich the reader’s thought … . Some parts of the book may certainly be found interesting, and the book may even help some people in the development of their own worldview … ." (Libor Behounek, Neural Network World, Vol. 14 (2), 2004)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Sydney, South Penrith DC, Australia

    Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Fuzziology

  • Book Subtitle: Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity

  • Authors: Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge

  • Series Title: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1778-2

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1506-1Published: 04 September 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-00309-1Published: 01 August 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1778-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1434-9922

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-0808

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 188

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence

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