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Professional Communication as a Prerequisite for Practical Action

Ladislav Tondl

Prakseologia > 2014 > 155 > 351-365

The article connects with those who have highlighted the significant role of (a) integrating knowledge of different scientific and technical disciplines and (b) the integration of knowledge and values, including an efficient interplay between cognitive and practical actions. This article also develops the themes of the author’s previous works on the relationship of science, technology and society.

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Metamorfózy postojů k vědě a výzkumu

Ladislav Tondl

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal) > 2009 > 57 > 2 > 237-250

This study presents an overview of changing attitudes to science and research in the last century from celebration of their power and success, to apprehension and warning. The trends concerning changes of value-structure in the spheres of science and research are usually expressed by challenges or slogans such as “endless frontiers”, “scientific revolutions”, “limits”, “constraints”, “impacts”, “risks”...

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On Qualified Use and Application of Knowledge

Ladislav Tondl

Teorie vědy (Theory of Science) > 2009 > 31 > 3-4 > 107-129

The new topics in the spheres of science and/or technology policy, i. e. the knowledge management, was influenced by problems connected with great and complicated technological projects. The paper presents the main motives and sources of knowledge management, of qualified use and application of knowledge, especially the selection and integration of adequate data and knowledge, the selection of relevant...

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DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURES (Struktury rozhodovani)

Ladislav Tondl

Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu > 2009 > 16 > 3 > 381-399

The study expresses some personal experiences based on long collaboration and contacts with specialists in engineering or design spheres during more than two decades. These specialists had mostly bad experiences with some opinions or standpoints carried out by the decisions called as political or in the public interests or, as it was usually denoted, in the people's interests. It was A.M. Weinberg...

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The Role of Values in Human Life

Ladislav Tondl

Teorie vědy (Theory of Science) > 2007 > 16/29 > 1 > 129-150

The paper analyzes the function of values, systems of values or of the 'teleological world' and their impacts on the life of man and society. This function is connected with the structure of social action, its goal orientation together with its rationality. The action is based on decision-making procedures. The decision-making represents a choice between alternatives, which is based on their evaluation,...

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Rational Actions and the Integration of Knowledge

Ladislav Tondl

Journal for General Philosophy of Science > 2007 > 38 > 1 > 91-110

Summary The paper emphasizes the role of knowledge dimensions of an action which could be regarded as rational. Rational action usually results of specific decision – making process including selection, evaluation and acceptance of a preferred alternative. This process should integrate not only various types of knowledge but also the interdisciplinary or interdepartmental knowledge integration. The...

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Science, Values and the Human Dimensions

Ladislav Tondl

Journal for General Philosophy of Science > 2001 > 32 > 2 > 307-327

The presented paper substantiates the principle that values are an immanent component of science and any rational cognitive activity. This principle belongs to the European cultural tradition starting from the book of Genesis of the Old Testament, the values of certainty in the antique Greek philosophy and Francis Bacon's coincidence of knowledge and power. Values in science form complicated structures...

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What is the Thematic Structure of Science?

Ladislav Tondl

Journal for General Philosophy of Science > 1998 > 29 > 2 > 245-264

The paper justifies the concept of “thematic structure” or “order of knowledge” over the traditional “classification of sciences” due to the uncertainty of many classification criteria. The thematic structure of science has, of course, various levels and various dimensions. Arguments against any forms of separating the humanities from sciences in the traditional sense of the term are presented and...

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