EUSFLAT Working Group on Philosophical Foundations

Aims and Scope

The aim of the EUSFLAT Working Group on Philosophical Foundations is to motivate philosophers, educators,and scientists, to approach the historical roots of Soft Computing, as well as its results in real applications. To this end, this working group consists in:

  • A Forum for the analysis of the hiostory, backgrounds and original methodologies of Soft Computing and, in particular, of Fuzzy Logic and Computing with Words/Meanings, where new points of view could be openly and quickly discussed, and from which some scientific work/publications could follow up.
  • Efforts to create an adequate environment to interest educators of all levels to approach Fuzzy Logic, as a general way of lengthening their horizons of knowledge.
  • The organization of Special Sessions in EuSFLaT Conferences and elsewhere, to spread the knowledge of Soft Computing, its founding principles and its history to new areas of research, and to assert new applications of its methods.
  • The establishing of the Archives of History and Philosophy of Soft Computing, to keep track of such advancements.

Coordinators

Name / Affiliation E-Mail / www
Rudolf Seising / Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany rudolf.markus.seising@uni-jena.de
Marco Elio Tabacchi / Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy marcoelio.tabacchi@unipa.it
Settimo Termini / Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy termini@math.unipa.it