Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by UP Author "De Beer, C.S. (Fanie)"

Browsing Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology by UP Author "De Beer, C.S. (Fanie)"

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  • An acritical philosophy of information : general contribution 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2007)
    The project of an acritical philosophy of information is nothing but a defense of the necessity for the philosophical in our cognitive, epistemic, and informational endeavours, and simultaneously a manner of refusing the ...
  • Africa in the globalising world : digital divide or human divide? 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis, 2007)
    This paper describes the situation of a humanised future for Africa, against all the negative commentaries regarding the continent, and against all forms of dehumanisation, which would mean a situation of drastic humanisation. ...
  • Besinning oor menslike geestelikheid 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-03)
    In 1988 het ek 'n artikel geskryf oor "die krisis van die afwesige gees" (De Beer 1988). Behalwe vir 'n paar enkelinge het dit nie juis aandag getrek nie. Ondanks my lewendige belangstelling in hierdie tema, is dit nooit ...
  • Demokrasie of demodinamiek - die internet en demokrasie 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2006-06)
    This article explores the possibility of an alternative demo-dynamic focus of human socio-politico-cultural activities supported and energised by information and communication technologies, more specifically by the internet. ...
  • Etos van die hedendaagse kenniswerker 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-06)
    This article reflects on the ethos of the contemporary knowledge worker and its relevance for the sciences of the spirit today as explored by Alan Liu in his book The laws of cool: knowledge work and the culture of ...
  • Filosofiese besinning oor geweld : uitdagings aan informatiseringstrategieë 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2007)
    In this article the focus is on violence, especially murderous violence, its impact, its origins, factors that facilitate and promote it and possible solutions. Due to its intensity the impact on society and individuals ...
  • Geesteswetenskappe : vry of verkneg 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-12)
    This article tries to identify the key issues that threaten the sciences of the spirit with their denigration, and eventually their catastrophic downfall. The economistic political economy of science, political policies ...
  • Herbetowering van ’n ont-towerde wêreld 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2014-06)
    In hierdie artikel word besin oor die begrip wêreld, die gebruik daarvan, die sin daarvan, die geldigheid en omvang daarvan. Die moontlike diepgaande aard daarvan word ondersoek, asook die aannames wat daaroor geld. 'n ...
  • Idee van die Gees 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2011-12)
    We are currently experiencing, and have for some time now been subjected to, a degradation, or a neglect, or even a loss of an awareness of spirit and spirituality on a grand scale. In a time that measurement and calculation ...
  • Informatisering van ons mensbeeld 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2010)
    Diepgaande refleksie is nodig om te bepaal waar ons vandag met ons voorgestelde beeld van die mens staan. Die beeld wat ons handhaaf, is van die uiterste belang. Dit bepaal tussenmenslike verhoudings en ook menslike ...
  • Invensie van 'n toekoms 1 : oor toekoms, inventiewe denke en taal 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2008-06)
    Die toekoms is onontwykbaar. Mense bly altyd daarmee gekonfronteer. Die uitdagings wat dit stel is ewe onontwykbaar : Wat moet ons daarmee doen? Hoe kan ons ons daarop voorberei? Wat kan gedoen word om dit te verseker? ...
  • Invensie van ’n toekoms 2 : taal, betekenisvolle inligting en toekomsinvensie 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2008-09)
    In die vorige artikel is beklemtoon tot watter mate taal in sy volheid die moontlikhede vir ’n toekoms oopmaak. Op hierdie stadium is dit belangrik om te waarsku dat die stroping van taal die mens van ’n toekoms beroof. ...
  • Invensie/herinvensie van same-lewing 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2015-12)
    Society is, generally speaking, in a situation of serious decay, hampered by criminality, violence, corruption, poverty, disaffectivity, and desymbolisation to the point of the pathological. As a result, society's status ...
  • Knowledge is everywhere : a philosophical exploration 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2007)
    In this article, I would like to argue that interdisciplinarity belongs to the very nature of knowledges in their diverse manifestations and any disregard for this idea would mean a distortion of knowledge while creating ...
  • Kuberwêreld 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2005-06)
    The controversy about the existence of the world is the point of departure of this article. That there is a world and that this world exists and that many meanings are allocated to this term are all equally true. Their ...
  • Meervoudige denke : versmoor/vermoor instellings denke? 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2010-12)
    Denke is die mees uitsonderlike vermoë van mense. Vir mense om volwaardige mense te wees, is die volle ontwikkeling van hierdie vermoë noodsaaklik. Wanneer dit afgeskeep word, word mense tot minder as mense en alle ...
  • Method/beyond-method : the demands, challenges and excitements of scholarly information work 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2009)
    When we think of information science as an inter-science, and when the philosophy of information is reflected upon in acritical terms, what emerges is a formidable and extremely exciting subject field filled with dynamic ...
  • Methodology and noology : amazing prospects for library and information science 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2011-05)
    Important work for Information Science and Information Services has been done by two internationally renowned intellectuals, Edgar Morin and Michel Serres. Their relevance relates to the fact that they both accept the ...
  • Michel Serres’ multidisciplinary philosophy of information and knowledge 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2014-07)
    This paper is a tribute to the formidable multidisciplinary philosophy of information of the French philosopher, Michel Serres. His approach is to an extent based on his statement: “Let us nevertheless try to see on a ...
  • Multiple, connective intellection : the condition for invention 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie) (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-11)
    Since this article involves invention, the conditions for inventiveness become the issue: assuming multiple reality; thinking in a special way; transgressing boundaries; acknowledging networks (in the terms of Michel ...