Schemas Theory Research — Personal Narrative
I am going to give you a brief overview of my work so that you can decide if it is interesting to you.
I have been working as a Software Engineer and a Systems Engineer in my career.
I did a Ph.D. in Sociology/Philosophy of Science at LSE 1982: Structure of Theoretical Systems in relation to Emergence.
See The structure of theoretical systems in relation to emergence
Working as a Software Engineer after studying Continental Philosophy I eventually saw that Computer Hardware embodies the first two meta-levels of Being: present-at-hand and ready-to-hand as defined by Heidegger in Being and Time.
That meant that software embodied Hyper Being or what Derrida calls Differance.
See What_differance_does_Derrida_make
Software_Metaphysics_01_A_Framework_for_Understanding_Software_Philosophically
This realization that Continental Ontology directly related to Software as an technological artifact drove me to research Software Engineering especially Architectural Design of Software and then eventually Systems Design at the level of Systems Engineering, i.e. the whole system including Hardware.
Software_Systems_Architectural_Design_Foundations_01_Introduction
I wrote some papers and placed them on the internet and someone at Systems Engineering saw them and invited me to speak about Schemas Theory http://schematheory.net I formulated a set of schemas for that presentation and it has basically remained the set that I did my tutorial on for “INCOSE.org” Systems Engineering and International Society for the Systems Sciences Conferences.
Along the way as I developed Schema Theory I decided to do a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, and my adviser asked me to apply Schemas Theory to something so I decided to apply it to design because that was my original interest that drove me to develop Schemas Theory.
Over the years I have written quite a few papers on Schemas Theory and its implications some of which I have given at the “INCOSE.org” Systems Engineering, CSER and ISSS.org workshop meetings.
As far as I know nothing like Schemas Theory has been developed before and it serves as a foundation for design, because all designs use schemas as their basic imaginary “material” “substance”, i.e. spacetime templates of intelligibility each with its own intrinsic order.
Schemas Theory is the next level of abstraction beyond Systems Theory
Systems_Philosophy_Questions_concerning_Schemas_Theory_Answered
Beyond_Systems_Philosophy_From_Systems_Philosophy_to_a_Philosophy_of_Schemas
I have recently discovered the mathematical basis of Schemas Theory but have not published that paper yet.
Schemas Theory was developed in order to frame and make understandable the context of Special Systems Theory.
Reflexive_Autopoietic_Dissipative_Special_Systems_Theory
Since I have been not working I have devoted myself full time to my research and have gone back and reread everything that was significant in the development of the theory of the Meta-levels of Being in a Continental Philosophy Study group that is local.
Groundless_Grounds_–_Continental_Philosophy_Reading_and_Study_Group
In that I have discovered the thread of Genetic Phenomenology that I am studying intently now
Genetic_Phenomenology_and_Fundamental_Ontology_of_the_Meta-levels_of_Time
I am also engaged in editing and publishing some of the papers I have written over the last year or so based on the readings I have done recently.
Dark_Entropy_and_Dark_Information
Adorno_with_Derrida_Deleuze_and_Zizek
If you are going to study Systems Theory as a basis for better understanding design I recommend the work of George Klir as a point of departure
FormalStructuralSystem20150123kdp04b.pdf
This gives you a narrative to help you approach my work on Schemas Theory hopefully making it more accessible.