INTRODUCERE ÎN FILOSOFIA STRUCTURAL ... - Institutul de Istorie

SUMMARY
Several decades ago, information has become a major issue in the contemporary
philosophy of science. Such phenomena as qualia or, for instance, non-separability as a
consequence of the quantum mechanics theory cannot be dealt without the concept of
information. Inside the literature of this subject-matter there are two well known and highly
opposite one another main points of view:
1) The first kind of approaches considers information from the side of cybernetics and
semantics – i.e. the theory of actualization of the potential information through the process of
communication; this is the so-called „structural science” (= the theories of information
starting with Shannon and Wiener).
2) The second kind of approaches sees information as an autonomous and potential universe,
irreductible to the aspects of digital and actualized information. Into this second category are
to find structural-phenomenological orthophysics and transdisciplinarity. They both conceive
the phenomenon of information in the sense above-mentioned (as an autonomous and
potential universe). Thus, the quantitative limitation of the classical theory of information to
the detriment of study of the qualitative aspects of information is criticized.
This book is a critical and systematical account for the contributions of Acad. Prof. M.
Drăgănescu’s structural-phenomenological ontological model to the contemporary
philosophical thought. The author conducted the research on orthophysics as follows: the first
section of the book is dedicated to some famous philosophers, both foreign (Aristotle and
Kant) and Romanian (Eminescu, Conta, Blaga) for the purpose of emphasizing as many
„anticipations”, which M. Drăgănescu advocates in the favour of his ontological model; the
second section is an attempt of comparative ontological analysis between the RE model and
some contemporary outstanding ideas of thinkers like Whitehead, Heidegger and Romanian
Noica, orthophysics looking for a pathway toward a possible „critique of structural reason”;
the third section deals with the vocabulary of orthophysics, with its epistemological and
linguistical characteristics, as well as with the structural-phenomenological principles of a
new science in relationship with spirituality in the socio-human society.
A first assumption of orthophysics is that nowadays paradigm of science, even if very
powerful in the description, explanation and prediction of physical events, would not be able
to account for information, the mental processes as well as for the phenomenon of life. Thus,
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