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Ioan Biris

Ioan Biris is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ioan Biris rather than just read about it. In short: Ioan Biris is a university professor at the West University of Timișoara,Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences, Romania. He studied philosophy (B.Sc., 1976) at the Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca.

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Reference excerpt

Ioan Biris is a university professor at the West University of Timișoara,Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences, Romania. He studied philosophy (B.Sc., 1976) at the Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca. Secondary studies in sociology. Ph.D. in philosophy (1989) and Ph.D. in sociology (2000). He is known for his research in the areas of philosophy of science, analytic philosophy, ontology and applied logic.

Publications

Books (in romanian) Totality, sistem, holon (1992); History and culture (1996); Values of Law and intentional Logik (1996); Sociology of civilisations (2000); Society and cultural communication (ed., 2006); Totality, sistem, holon (second edition, 2007); Concepts of social sciences. Models and applications (2008); Role of imaginary in scientific knowledge (ed., 2009); Concepts of science (2010); Philosophy and logic of social sciences (2014).

Selected papers "L'identité symbolique et la logique partitive des valeurs spirituelles", in vol. XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 2013. "The Moral Values and Partitive Logic", in vol. Valentin Mureşan and Shunzo Majima (eds), Applied Ethics. Perspectives from Romania, Hokkaido University, 2013. "The history of thinkers or the history of ideas? Michael Dummett's model", in vol. International Workshop on the Historiography of Philosophy: Representations and Cultural Constructions 201, Elsevier, 2013. "On the logical Form of institutional Creation from John Searle's Perspective" in vol. Georgeta Raţă, Patricia-Luciana Runcan, Michele Marsonet (eds.), Applied Social Sciences: Philosophy and Theology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. "Le statut ontologique de la citoyenneté. La perspective de John Searle", in vol. XXXIV-eme Congres de l’ASPLF, Bruxelles-Louvain la Neuve, 2012. "The Relation of Similarity and the Communication of Science", în Balkan Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, No. 1, 2012. "Religious Violence and the Logic of Weak Thinking: between R. Girard and G. Vattimo", in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, vol. 11, 32, 2012. "Scientific Knowledge and Problem of Significance", in vol. Teodor Dima, Dan Sîmbotin (eds.) Knowledge and Action within the Knowledge Based Society, Institutul European, Iaşi, 2011. "La signification performative et l'holisme pratique", in vol. XXXIII-eme Congres de l’ASPLF, Venise, 2010. "The Formal Structure of Experience in Carnap’s Aufbau", in Balkan Journal of Philosophy, vol. 2, No 2, 2010. "On the logic of religious terms", in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, volume 8. nr 22, Spring 2009. "La specificite des concepts des sciences sociales", in vol. XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seul, 2008. "Le rapport identite-difference et la conjonction collective. Aspects logiques" in vol. XXXI-eme Congres de l’ASPLF, Budapest, 2006. "Reflexion et défi des limites de la pensée logique-scientifiques", XXXe Congrès de l’ ASPLF, Nantes, France, 2004. "Prééminence de la nature ou prééminence de l’histoire? Galilée et Vico" în vol. Esprits modernes, Etudes sur les modèles de pansée alternatifs aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles, Editura Universităţii din București, 2003. "Totalité et integration ontologique" XXI st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, 2003. "Formés de rationalité dans l′ integration culturelle", in Avenir de la raison, devenir des rationalites, XXIX-ème Congrès de l′A.S.P.L.F., Nice, France, 2002. "La fonctionnalite’ de l’idee de "champ"dans les sciences sociales", Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 1998. "L’Ecole de Munich et la theorie structuraliste de la science", în Analele Universităţii din Timişoara, Seria Filosofie, VII, 1995. "Zeitliche Simultaneitat und religiose Zeit bei Kant", în Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, nr.1-2, 1994.

Translation Michael Dummett, Origins of analytical philosophy (in Romanian), Dacia Publishing, Cluj-Napoca, 2004.

External links Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences, West University of Timisoara. Institute of Social-Political Researches, West University of Timisoara. (ICSP website Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine). Doctoral School in Philosophy, Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences, West University of Timișoara. Romanian Committee for History and Philosophy of Science and Technics (CRIFST), Romanian Academy.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Ioan Biris

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ioan Biris ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ioan Biris

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In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ioan Biris in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ioan Biris is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Analytic philosophers, Living people, Ontologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ioan Biris outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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