Ioan Biris
Romanian philosopher
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.
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