Theory of Epistemic Fields

Kofi Kissi Dompere is a professor emeritus of economics at Howard University. He holds a doctoral degree in economics, master’s degree in applied mathematics, master’s degree in business administration in finance, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics, all degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia. He has authored several scientific and scholarly works in economics, philosophy, decision theory, and fuzzy mathematics. He is the winner of 2006 Cheikh Anta Diop Award for excellence in scholarship. He has a number of published monographs. He is a resource person for UNITAR (United Nations) and an economic consultant in the areas of cost-benefit analysis, national income accounts, development, and macroeconomics. He is the founder of The Research Institute of Information Decision and Economic Sciences (RIIDES) in which he serves as a distinguished research professor. He is an active participant in discussions on fundamental problems in physics.

• Preamble.- Dedication.- Prologue.- Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Chapters.- 1. The Theory Of Epistemic Fields: Principles of Diversity, Unity and Interdisciplinary Areas of Knowing.- 2. Categorial dividedness, general analytical space, the characteristic-signal fields, the epistemic fields, therelational fields, and the information fields.- 3.The principles of diversity and unity in knowing and science.- 4.Thinking and reasoning over the space of ignorance- knowledgedualities and polarities in knowing and science.- 5. Fuzzy optimization of ignorance-knowledge relational decomposition in knowing through transversality conditions.- 6. The concepts of the space of imagination-reality dualities, possibilityand probability in the principles of diversity and unity of knowing and science in the fuzzy-stochastic space.- 7. Reflective analytics on possibility, possibility space, impossibility, impossibility space, possible and impossible worlds.- Epilogue.- Index.