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A ”Goodbye to the Aristotelian Weltanschauung” and a Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine

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Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 302))

Abstract

Almost 50 years ago Lotfi A. Zadeh founded the theory of Fuzzy Sets and Systems based on his works in system and information technology and continuing Norbert Wiener’s research in cybernetics. In the 1970s, Mario Bunge published a system theoretical approach in philosophy of medicine that he named Iatrophilosophy and in the 1980s Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh opened the door to use fuzzy system’s concepts in this area and to define a patient’s state of health as a linguistic variable. Sadegh- Zadeh demonstrated that these concepts are not amenable to classical logic and he rejected the conceptual opposition that an individual could be either healthy or ill. Then he created a fuzzy theoretic approach toward a novel theoretical framework of these concepts: ”health is a matter of degree, illness is a matter of degree, and disease is a matter of degree”. In this paper we will follow the historic path of fuzzy theoretic thinking in medicine until the appearance of his epoch-making Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine.

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Seising, R. (2013). A ”Goodbye to the Aristotelian Weltanschauung” and a Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine . In: Seising, R., Tabacchi, M. (eds) Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 302. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36527-0_3

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