SCHS 2013 - Special Session on Soft Computing And The Human Sciences

Organizers: Rudolf Seising, Marco Elio Tabacchi
What we still lack, and lack rather acutely, are methods for dealing with systems which are too complex or too ill-defined to admit of precise analysis. Such systems pervade life sciences, social sciences, philosophy, economics, psychology and many other “soft” fields. (L. A. Zadeh: Towards a theory of fuzzy systems. In: R.E. Kalman, N. DeClaris (Eds.), Aspects of Network and System Theory, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, pp. 469-490.)
More than 40 years after Zadeh’s words above, we are still hard working to establish the research area on “Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences”. In this special session we will point aspects of Soft Computing and of the so-called “human sciences” (humanities, medicine, social sciences and arts). We ask for the meaning of “softening” and “softness” of computing and of sciences.Relationships of soft computing on the one hand and logics, linguistics, cognitive science,psychology, philosophy, medicine, arts and other areas on the one hand have not been considered and discussed very intensively!
Examples of the special sessions subjects are Ordinary Reasoning, Folk Epistemology,Vagueness, Objectivity, Causality, Complexity, Knowledge and other concepts.