Wenceslao is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of A Coruña. He is a Full Member of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences/International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences. He has been a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective” (2008-2013). He has been named a Distinguished Researcher by the Main National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru). Wenceslao has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (LSE), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science and Visiting Scholar of the Department of Philosophy (U. Pittsburgh). He has given lectures at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec, Helsinki and Nevada at Reno. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the Universities of Uppsala, New South Wales, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ), Vienna, and Beijing. He received the Research Award in Humanities given in 1995 by the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain). He was President of the Committee of Doctoral Programs at the University of A Coruña (2002-2004)
Dates of Visit: 1 July - 31 August, 2016
Project Title: Complexity in the Sciences of the Artificial: Communication Sciences and the Internet
Project Description: Within the realm of the sciences of the artificial, the axis of this investigation is the study of structural and dynamic complexity in the communication sciences, in general, and in the case of the Internet, in particular. Thus, the focus will be on two main aspects. a) Presence of factors of structural complexity in the communication sciences and the Internet, looking at their characteristics and limits. Simon’s contributions (such as the sciences of the artificial and the web) and Rescher’s insights (such as the modes of complexity) may be useful here. b) To develop dynamic complexity in the case of the communication sciences and the Internet, which Simon’s and Rescher’s ideas do not reach, but they can be articulated through the distinction between process, evolution and historicity. These two aspects will be enquired into the communication sciences, in general, and on the Internet, in particular, observing their philosophico-methodological repercussion and its incidence on developing communication sciences as applied sciences of design.