Vladimir Geroimenko lives in Minsk in White Russia (Byelo Russia), a former
Soviet Republic, and wants to get into contact with other PCP people. Some
of you may remember him from the EPCA conference in St. Andreasberg /
Germany. Since he is not on E-mail, I'm sending his letter to you. You can
contact him through mail, phone or fax.
Joern Scheer (Giessen, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Geroimenko
P.O. Box 266
Minsk-117
Republic of Belarus
Fax (Home):(007 0172) 72 86 44
I am in search of a scientific position or a sponsor for
realization of my research project on Personal Construct
Psychology (PCP).
I can not do it in the Republic of Belarus where I live now
because there are neither special literature nor scientific
contacts here which are necessary for my work.
I shall be very grateful to you for any help in my search.
If you or your colleagues are interested in it I shall send you a
detailed research project, any information which may be necessary
for you or a complete application form.
A few words about myself. I am 38 years old, a chief research
associate of the Institute of Philosophy of the Byelorussian
Academy of Sciences, the author or a co-author of about 70
scientific works, including 9 books.
I thank you in advance for your kind attention to my problems.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
by Prof. Dr. Vladimir Geroimenko
Topic 1: Fuzzy-PCP: foundations and possible ways of its
constructing
At the 2nd Conference of the European Personal Construct
Association (St. Andreasberg/Germany, April 19-22, 1994) I
presented the paper "Personal Construct Theory and Fuzzy-Set-
Theory".
This is its published abstract:
Geroimenko, Wladimir
Minsk, (Republik of Belarus White Russia)
PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY AND FUZZY-SET-THEORY
Interesting perspectives are opened by Lofti A. Zadeh's fuzzy-set-
theory (1965) for the development of the personal construct theory
by George A. Kelly (1955). The fact that most of the concepts used
by a person do not have their clear boundaries (for example,
"rather warm", "a tall man" etc.), must be taken into
consideration in the theory. Zadeh's theory offers a well
developed logico-mathematical apparatus for the description of
fuzzy sets (Fuzzy Logic), which can contribute to the
concretization of Kelly's theory and, what is most important, to
its further rapprochement with computer methods.
Using a simple example of the personal construct "warm-cold" and
Zadeh's theory it is possible to show the graphical and
mathematical expressions of each of the construct's poles (thefuzzy sets "warm" and "cold") and the personal construct as a
whole. The generalization of the abovementioned example leads to a
number of interesting conclusions and shows the possibility of
"synthesis" of both the theories.
In my research project I should like to make a comparative
analysis of both the theories (PCP and Fuzzy Logic) and to
investigate the basic principles, the main concepts and methods of
constructing Fuzzy-PCP.
Topic 2: Personal Construct Psychology in the context of an
integral philosophical theory of knowledge
As far back as 1989 I showed in my book "Personal Knowledge and
Scientific Creativity" (in Russian) that Kelly's theory had deep
philosophical roots and that his theory was bound up with the
theory of personal knowledge by the British philosopher M. Polanyi
(1958).
At the 2nd German Conference on Personal Construct Psychology
(Osnabrueck/Germany, January 29-30, 1993) I presented the paper
"Personal Construct Theory and new philosophical conceptions of
knowledge".
In my research project I should like to continue the investigation
of the Personal Construct Theory as a component of the integral
model of knowledge (See e.g.: Geroimenko, V.: "Integral Model of
Knowledge". In: XIX World Congress of Philosophy. Moscow, August
22-28, 1993. Book of Abstracts. V.1.).
Only this model is able to work as a methodological and
philosophical basis for modern cognitive and computer sciences
because it includes the theoretical construct "Personal
Knowledge".
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