Universitary professor at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania, for more than 40 years, academician, and former president of the Romanian Academy (1990-1994), Mihai Draganescu is known in Romania for his works and activities in the domains of electronics, informatics and of philosophy of science.
Prof. Mihai Draganescu is member of the Presidium of the Romanian Academy, President of the Section for the Science and Technology of Information and Honorary President of the Forum for the Information Society of the Romanian Academy. He is a Life Fellow IEEE. Recently he was nominated as the president of the scientific council of the National Program for Research and Development for the Information Society in Romania. He introduced in Romania the concepts of the Knowledge Society and promotes the ideas of a future society of consciousness.

President of the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, President of the Section for Philosophy and Psychology of the Academy of Scientists- Romania, he is Honorary Ambassador.

Presently, at our Institute, he is working at a project " Structural - phenomenological modeling, conceptual and symbolic" based on his original philosophy of science elaborated previously, between 1977-1993. Among the aims of this project: to bring new ideas in the methodology of science and to develop orthophysical (structural-phenomenological) theories of the physical and informational reality, of mental processes and consciousness.

 

He is a member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) and of the group KATEDRAST formed with professor Menas Kafatos a.o. from George Mason University, Fairfax, USA, with the aim of advancing new fundamental principles in philosophy of science and science. The latest works include the extension of the theory of categories and functors to phenomenological domains and the development of the philosophy of integrative science.

 

CONTENTS OF THE SITE

• Categories and Functors for the Integrative Science.
• E-prints: Internet books.
• Mind and Consciousness.
• Science and Technology of Information.
• Information Society - Knowledge Society.
• Consciousness Society.
• History of the Science and Technology.
• Curriculum Vitae.

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CATEGORIES AND FUNCTORS 

and

 THE INTEGRATIVE (STRUCTURAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL) SCIENCE

 

• Mihai Drăgănescu, Sisir Roy, Menas Kafatos, Effective Theories And The Phenomenological Information, preprint 2004, pdf.

 

• Menas Kafatos, Mihai Drăgănescu, Principles of Integrative Science, Bucureşti, Editura Tehnică, 2003.

 

 

• Mihai Draganescu, Menas Kafatos, Community And Social Factors For The Integrative Science, preprint 2003, pdf.

 

• The Fundamental Phenomenological Information Of The Universe, preprint November 2003, pdf.

 

• Products Of Phenomenological Objects And Products Of Phenomenological Functors, preprint, November 2002, pdf.

 

• Categories, Presheaves, Sheaves And Cohomologies For The Theory Of Consciousness, preprint, to be published in the volume NOESIS, 2002.

 

• Neighborhoods In And Among Phenomenological Categories, *E-PREPRINT, MSReader format, 2002.

 

• A First Essay on Phenomenological Topologies, *E-PREPRINT, MSReader format, 2002.

 

• Mihai Drăgănescu, Menas Kafatos, Sisir Roy, Main Types of Phenomenological Categories, * E-PREPRINT, MSReader format, November 2001.

 

• Menas Kafatos, Mihai Drăgănescu, Preliminaries to the Philosophy of Integrative Science, * e-book (MSReader), Academy of Scientists-Romania, 2001.

 

• Some Results In The Theory Of Phenomenological Categories, * E-PREPRINT (MSReader format), communication at the Vth Conference on Structural-phenomenological Modeling, Bucharest, June 2001, to be published.

 

• Automorphisms In The Phenomenological Domains, to be published by Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, vol.2, No.1, 2001.
   
• Autofunctors And Their Meaning, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, vol. 1, No. 3, p. 201 - 205, 2000.

 

• Menas Kafatos, Mihai Draganescu, Toward An Integrative Science, NOESIS, XXVI, 2001, to be published.

  

• Categories and Functors for the Structural-Phenomenological Modeling, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A (Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science), Vol.1, No.2, p. 111 - 115, 2000.

 

• Mihai Draganescu, Menas Kafatos, Generalized Foundational Principles in the Philosophy of Science, paper presented at the Conference on "Consciousness in Science and Philosophy" in Charleston, Illinois, 6-7 Nov 1998, published in The Noetic Journal, Vol.2, No.4, Oct. 1999, p. 341-350, republished in the vol. Science and the Primacy of Consciousness, Intimation of a 21^st Century Revolution, Richard L. Amoroso and others (eds), Orinda: The Noetic Press, 2000, Chapter 9, pp. 86-98. Also * e-copy in MSReader format.

 

• The Frontiers of Science and Self-organization, communication at the IVth Conference on structural-phenomenological modeling, Romanian Academy, June 20-21, 2000, to be published in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie.

 

•  Informatic Versus Physical Ontology. Ontological Fundamentals of Mathematics, NOESIS, XXIV, 1999, p. 9-32.

 

• Ortofizica (Orthophysics), Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 1985 [in Romanian]. Contents of the volume.
• Argument
  (the preface to the volume The Ring of the Material World, Bucharest, Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1989, which contains, as a second edition, the volumes "The Depths of the Material World" (Depths of Existence) -1979- and "Orthophysics"-1985).
• Fluctuation And Rhythm, Ch.5, of the volume ORTOFIZICA (ORTHOPHYSICS), 1985, English translation.

E-PRINTS

• INTERNET BOOKS:
   
• L'Universalité ontologique de l'information (Ontological Universality of Information), Préface et notes par Yves Kodratoff, prof., Université de Paris-Sud, Directeur de recherche au CNRS -Bucharest, Editura Academiei, 1996.

 

• The Depths of Existence, Electronic edition, in english, of a book first published in 1979 (Profunzimile lumii materiale), Bucharest, Editura Politica).

 

• E-BOOKS:
• Ionut Isac, Introducere in filosofia structural-fenomenologica. Paradigma Ortofizicii (Introduction to the Structural-phenomenological Philosophy. The Orthophysical Paradigm), Editura Ardealul, Targu Mures, Biblioteca de Filosofie, 2001, * e-book, MSReader format, ISBN 973-8300-00-2.

MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS

• The Sources Of Complementarity Between Mind And Body, The Noetic Journal, Vol.4, No.1, Jan 2003, p.33-44.

 

• The Brain As An Information Processor, NOESIS, XXV, 2000, p.9-20.

 

• The Interdisciplinary Science of Consciousness, Chapter 5, pp. 46-59, in Science and the Primacy of Consciousness, Intimation of a 21^st Century Revolution, Richard L. Amoroso and others (eds.), Orinda: The Noetic Press, 2000.

 

• Taylor's Bridge Across The Explanatory Gap And Its Extension, Consciousness and Cognition, 1998, 7, 165-168.

 

• Continuities and Discontinuities in the Realms of Life and Mind, Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Tome 41,1997, Nos 1-2, p.3-9.
   
• Sur la notion et le domaine de la Vie Artificielle (On the notion and the domain of artificial life), Bulletin de la Classe des Sciences, Academie Royale de Belgique, 6e serie, Tome VI, No.7-12, 1995, 13 pages.

 

• Mind  and  Artificial  Intelligence, NOESIS, vol.XII, 1986, p.129-183.

 

• De la filosofia la stiinta mentalului (From the Philosophy to the Science of the Mind), Academica, iunie 1997, p.11-12. Revista româna de filosofie, XLIV, Nr.5, sep-oct 1997, p. 457-464.

 

• Procesarea mentala a informatiei(Mental Processing of Information, abstract in English), Memoriile Sect. St. ale Acad. Romane, SERIA IV, Tom. XX, 1997, p.263-284. Also in Academica, Oct.1997, p.14-15 (I), Nov.1997, p. 26-27 (II), Dec.1997, p.31-32 (III).

 

• Constiinta fundamentala a existentei (The Fundamental Consciousness of Existence), conference, published in ACADEMICA Jan., Febr., March 1998.

 

• Deep Reality, Conscious Universe and Complementarity, NOETIC JOURNAL, Vol. 1, No.1, June 1997, p.114-117.

 

• On the Structural-Phenomenological Theories of Consciousness, NOETIC JOURNAL, Vol.1, No.1, June 1997, p.28-33.

 

• On the Notions of Understanding and Intelligence, NOESIS, 1998, XXIII, pp.87-97.

 

• Structural-Phenomenological Theories in Europe and USA, The Noetic Journal, vol. 2, 1999, No 1-2, p.4-8.

 

• The Method of the Structural-phenomenological Recognition, February, 1997.

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF INFORMATION

·         Spoken Language Technology, communication, The 2nd Conference on Speech Technology and Man-Machine Dialogue, Academia Română, April 10-12, 2003, pdf.

 

·         Neural Engineering and Neuroelectronics Facing Artificial Consciousness, Communication at the INGIMED II Conference, Bucharest, Dec. 13, 2001; * E-PREPRINT, MSReader Format, Federaţia Română de Inginerie Biologică.

 

·         From Solid State To Quantum And Molecular Electronics, The Deepening Of Information Processing, Invited paper at the International Semiconductor Conference, Sinaia, 8-11 oct. 1997, published in the volume I of the Conference, p.5-21.

·         Information, Heuristics, Creation, in the volume I. Plander (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence and Information, Control Systems of Robots, Elsevier (North-Holland), 1984, pp.25-29.

·         Concepte  generale  si  probleme  cuantice  ale  procesarii  informatiei (General Concepts and Quantum Problems of the Information Processing), publicata în vol. Rolul Invãtãmântului si al Cercetãrii stiintifice universitare în dezvoltarea Societãtii Informationale, Fac. de Automaticã si Calculatoare, Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, 1997, p. 31-39.
 

·         Electronica funcţională (Functional Electronics), Editura Tehnica, Bucharest, 1991 [in Romanian]. Contents of the volume.

 

·         Informatia si fortele fundamentale (Information and Fundamental Forces), communication at the 1998 Spring Scientific Session of the Academy of Scientists of Romania, published in the volume (editors) Mihai Draganescu and Stefan Trausan-Matu, Natura realitatii fizice si a informatiei (The Nature of Physical Reality and of Information), Editura Tempus, Bucuresti, 1999, p. 5- 16.

 

 

INFORMATION SOCIETY - KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

 

 

·          De la societatea informaţională la societatea cunoaşterii (From the information society to the knowledge society), Bucureşti, Editura Tehnică, 2003.

• Noua cultura in secolul XXI, Bucuresti, Editura Semne, 2004, e-reprint  (PDF).

 

• Cultura si societatea cunoasterii, publicat in vol. coord. Dan Tufis, Florin Filip, Limba Romana in Societatea Informationala-Societatea Cunosterii, Editura Expert, Bucuresti, 2002, p.441-442, 459-472 (PDF).

 

• Cultura la scara nationala, Forumul national al culturii, Bucuresti, 19 iunie 2002 (PDF).

 

• Broadband and the Knowledge Society, Communication presented at the International Conference Information Society Technologies for Broadband Europe, 9-11 October 2002, Marriott Grand Hotel, Bucharest, România (PDF).
   
• Perspectivele societatii cunoasterii in Romania, Comunicare la "Al V-lea Simpozion Stiintific al Inginerilor Români de Pretutindeni", AGIR, Bucuresti, 13-14 septembrie 2002 (PDF).

 

• Nota deschisa privind stiinta, cultura si societatea romaneasca, 29 aprilie 2002.

 

• Invatamantul electronic in societatea cunoasterii (E-learning in the Knowledge Society), * e-preprint, MSReader format, 28 martie 2002.
   
• Stiinta cognitiva, stiinta structurala sau integrativa? (Cognitive Science, Structural or Integrative Science?), * e-preprint, MSReader format, November 2001.

 

• Cunoasterea in secolul XXI (Knowledge in the XXIst Century), * e-preprint, MSReader format, October 2001.

 

• Societatea informationala si a cunoasterii. Vectorii societatii cunoasterii ( The Information and Knowledge society. The Vectors of the Knowledge Society), studiu pentru Proiectul SI-SC (Societatea Informationala - Societatea Cunoasterii) al Academiei Române, Bucuresti, 9 iulie 2001. Pe Internet:

http://www.academiaromana.ro/pro_pri/pag_com01socinf_tem.htm & http://www.racai.ro/INFOSOC-Project/

 

• Societatea cunoasterii si cartea electronicã (The Knowledge Society and the Electronic Book), comunicare la simpozionul Cartea electronicã, Academia Românã, 21 iunie 2001, publicata in volumul coord. Doina Banciu, Cartea Electronica, Editura AGER, Bucuresti, 2001, p. 26-42.

 

• Societatea cunoasterii (Knowledge Society) , Diplomat Club, Nr.6, 2001, p.1-2.

 

• Knowledge Management, a Functional Vector of the Knowledge Society, * E-PREPRINT, MSReader format; communication at the Sixth International  Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Public Administration, Sinaia , Oct.29, 2001, published in the volume and CD of the conference and in Diplomat Club, nr.10-11, 2001, p.4.
   

CONSCIOUSNESS SOCIETY

·        FUNDAMENTELE NATURALE ALE SOCIETATII CONSTIINTEI (Cap. 3 al studiului despre Societatea Constiintei), pdf, noiembrie 2005 [ The natural fundamentals of the consciousness society]

 

·       SPIRITUALITATEA (Cap.2 al studiului despre Societatea Conştiinţei) – pdf, noiembrie 2004

·        PROPUNERE pentru alegerea M.S. Mihai I ca membru de onoare al Academiei Române, 19 martie 2004, pdf.

 

·        Cultura (care anume?) si filosofia politica, e-preprint, PDF, 24 noiembrie 2003.

 

·        Societatea constiintei. Introducere, Raport de cercetare, noiembrie 2003, pdf.

 

·        Constiinta, frontiera a stintei, frontiera a omenirii (Consciousness, frontier of science, frontier of mankind), in Revista de Filosofie, XLVII, No. 1-2, p. 15-21, 2000.

 

·        Neural Engineering and Neuroelectronics Facing Artificial Consciousness, Communication at the INGIMED II Conference, Bucharest, Dec. 13, 2001; * E-PREPRINT, MSReader Format, Federatia Romana de Inginerie Biologica.

 

·        Paricidul moral, in Literatorul, 1997, nr.1-2, p.11.

 

·        Criterii transpolitice si criterii transmafiote în culturã, in Caiete Critice, 18 mai 1997, nr. 3-4, p.145-147.

 

 

 

 

 

HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

•  Mihai Drăgănescu, Academia Română la sfărşitul mandatelor de preşedinte ale Acad. Eugen Simion, 24 august 2005, e-preprint, PDF
• Coord. Mihai Draganescu, Telecomunicatiile in Romania. Pagini de istorie, Editura Academiei Romane, Bucuresti, 2003.
• Mihai Draganescu, Academicianul Aurel Avramescu, promotor al disciplinelor stiintei si tehnologiei informatiei, comunicare la sesiunea "Centenar Aurel Avramescu", Academia Romana, amfiteatrul Heliade Radulescu, 20 noiembrie 2003, e-preprint, PDF.
• Mihai Draganescu, Din istoria telecomunicatiilor in Romania, comunicare, Academia Romana, 15 aprilie 2003.  

• Ed. Mihai Draganescu, Adrian Rusu, Stefan Iancu, Tudor Tanasescu, fondatorul scolii românesti de electronica,  (Tudor Tanasescu, the Founder of the Romanian School of Electronics), Editura Dorotea, Bucuresti, 2001.

• Mihai Draganescu, Tudor Tanasescu si scoala romaneasca de electronica (Tudor Tanasescu and the Romanian School of electronics), Bucuresti, 7 martie 2001, * e book, MSReader format.

• Mihai Draganescu, Realizarea de calculatoare si retele de calculatoare in Romania (1953-1985) (Computers and networks of computers realized in Romania, 1953-1958), * E-PREPRINT, MSReader format, Academia Romana, November 2001.

• Mihai Draganescu, Factori noi in viata cultural-stiintifica-politica globala: terorismul si antiterorismul, comunicare la Simpozionul 'Terorismul-noua forma de manifestare pe plan mondial, a confruntarilor militare asimetrice', Cercul Militar National, Bucuresti, 12 dec. 2001. * E-PREPRINT, MSReader format, 2001.

CURRICULUM VITAE

·        In English, 2003, pdf.

·        In Romanian (CV-extins, 2003, pdf)

·        Mihai DRAGANESCU - cronologia activitatilor în domeniul informaticii.  

·        Mihai DRAGANESCU - Cronologia activitatilor în domeniile electronicii, microelectronicii si
electronicii functionale.  

·        Mihai DRAGANESCU - Cronologia activitatilor în filosofia stiintei.

·        Mihai DRAGANESCU - Cronologia activitatilor la Academia Româna.  

·        Mihai DRAGANESCU - Activitatea in Guvernul provizoriu postrevolutionar (1990).

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