KCST 2014 - International Symposium on Knowledge and Cognitive Science and Technologies

Alvin Goldman affirms that “epistemology [which] is concerned with the prospects of human knowledge… must work hand in hand with cognitive science.” (Goldman, 1999, “Epistemology and cognition,” in Wilson & Keil (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, The MIT Press, p. 280).
This is one of the main purposes for organizing the Symposium on Knowledge and Cognitive Science and Technologies: KCST 2014, in the context of The 5th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2014. Other purposes are 1) to explore the possibility of organizing KCST 2014 as a collocated conference by its own, not in the context of another one; 2) to identify the interest that there might be regarding special issues in the Journal of Systemic, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI) on KCST; 3) to examine with KCST 2014 participants the feasibility of publishing a multiple author book on the KCST topics or on a cluster of them; and 4) to analyze the desirability and feasibility of organizing an international association on KCST and/or of publishing a related Journal. Other motivations and purposed are briefly resumed below, along with associated references related to this issue.