Integrative Problem-Solving in a Time of Decadence

From the Table of Contents:THE PURSUIT Of KNOWLEDGE.-Crossing The Gate Of Night And Day.-Matters Of Scientific Knowledge.-A Time Of Decadence.-The Shadow Epistemology.-The Unholy Alliance Of Corporatism And Postmodernism In Higher Education.-On The Road To Damascus.-On Measurement And Observation.-Feynman's Wine And The No-Man's Land.-About Models, Modelling, And Modellers.-Reinventing The University And The New Enlightenment.-Non-Egocentric Individualism In IPS.-PROBLEM SOLVING REVISITED.-The Role Of Philosophy In IPS.-Historical Perspectives: From Heraclitus to Kuhn.-Rethink Everything.-Va, Pensiero, Sull' Ali Dorate.-Too Many Data - Too Little Sense, Mr. Grandgrind.-Paradigm And Via Negativa.-EMERGENCE OF EPIBRAIMATICS.-The Living Experience Outlook.-The Background Of Synthesis.-Brain As An Apparatus With Which We Think We Think.-If Plato Were Alive.-Fundamental IPS Postulates.-Knowledge Bases.-Problem-Solutions Suspended In Language.-When Truth Is Bigger Than Proof.-The Structure Of Knowledge.-A Fusion Of Ideas And Functions: A Man's Ithaca.-SPACE-TIME AND UNCERTAINTY.-The "Canvas vs. Parenthood" Dilemma.-Space-Time Domain And Its Characterization.-Dealing With Uncertainty.-Probability And Its Interpretations.-Quantitative Representations of Uncertainty.-STOCHASTIC REASONING.-Lifting Isis' Veil.-Reasoning In A Stochastic Setting.-The Spatiotemporal Random Field Concept.-Stochastic Characterization.-About Laws, Power Holders, and Rembrandt's Paintings.-Constructing Multivariate PDF Models.-Space-Time Change and Woody Allen's Prose.-A Generalized View Of S/TRF.-Constructive Symbiosis And Its Problem.