Mihai Drăgănescu (1929-2010)

The Mihai Drăgănescu colloquias

• MD colloquia-28 mai, 2021

About Acad. Mihai Drăgănescu

Universitary professor at the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania, for more than 40 years, academician, and former president of the Romanian Academy (1990-1994), Mihai Draganescu is known in Romania for his works and activities in the domains of electronics, informatics and of philosophy of science. Prof. Mihai Draganescu was a member of the Presidium of the Romanian Academy, President of the Section for the Science and Technology of Information and Honorary President of the Forum for the Information Society of the Romanian Academy. He was a Life Fellow IEEE. He was nominated as the president of the scientific council of the National Program for Research and Development for the Information Society in Romania. He introduced in Romania the concepts of the Knowledge Society and promotes the ideas of a future society of consciousness. President of the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, President of the Section for Philosophy and Psychology of the Academy of Scientists- Romania, he was Honorary Ambassador. At our Institute, he was working at a project ” Structural – phenomenological modeling, conceptual and symbolic” based on his original philosophy of science elaborated previously, between 1977-1993. Among the aims of this project: to bring new ideas in the methodology of science and to develop orthophysical (structural-phenomenological) theories of the physical and informational reality, of mental processes and consciousness. He was a member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) and of the group KATEDRAST formed with professor Menas Kafatos a.o. from George Mason University, Fairfax, USA, with the aim of advancing new fundamental principles in philosophy of science and science. The latest works included the extension of the theory of categories and functors to phenomenological domains and the development of the philosophy of integrative science.

Curriculum Vitae

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Categories and Functors for the Integrative Science

• Mihai Drăgănescu, Sisir Roy, Menas Kafatos, Effective Theories And The Phenomenological Information, 2004.
• Menas Kafatos, Mihai Drăgănescu, Principles of Integrative Science, Bucureşti, Editura Tehnică, 2003.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Menas Kafatos, Community And Social Factors For The Integrative Science, 2003.
• The Fundamental Phenomenological Information Of The Universe, November 2003.
• Products Of Phenomenological Objects And Products Of Phenomenological Functors, November 2002.
• Categories, Presheaves, Sheaves And Cohomologies For The Theory Of Consciousness, volume NOESIS, 2002.
• Neighborhoods In And Among Phenomenological Categories, 2002.
• A First Essay on Phenomenological Topologies, 2002.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Menas Kafatos, Sisir Roy, Main Types of Phenomenological Categories, November 2001.
• Menas Kafatos, Mihai Drăgănescu, Preliminaries to the Philosophy of Integrative Science, Academy of Scientists-Romania, 2001.
• Some Results In The Theory Of Phenomenological Categories, communication at the Vth Conference on Structural-phenomenological Modeling, Bucharest, June 2001.
• Automorphisms In The Phenomenological Domains, to be published by Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, vol.2, No.1, 2001.
• Autofunctors And Their Meaning, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, vol. 1, No. 3, p. 201 – 205, 2000.
• Menas Kafatos, Mihai Draganescu, Toward An Integrative Science, NOESIS, XXVI, 2001.
• Categories and Functors for the Structural-Phenomenological Modeling, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A (Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science), Vol.1, No.2, p. 111 – 115, 2000.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Menas Kafatos, Generalized Foundational Principles in the Philosophy of Science, paper presented at the Conference on “Consciousness in Science and Philosophy” in Charleston, Illinois, 6-7 Nov 1998, published in The Noetic Journal, Vol.2, No.4, Oct. 1999, p. 341-350, republished in the vol. Science and the Primacy of Consciousness, Intimation of a 21^st Century Revolution, Richard L. Amoroso and others (eds), Orinda: The Noetic Press, 2000, Chapter 9, pp. 86-98.
• The Frontiers of Science and Self-organization, communication at the IVth Conference on structural-phenomenological modeling, Romanian Academy, June 20-21, 2000, Revue Roumaine de Philosophie.
• Informatic Versus Physical Ontology. Ontological Fundamentals of Mathematics, NOESIS, XXIV, 1999, p. 9-32.
• Ortofizica (content) (Orthophysics), Editura Ştiintifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1985 [in Romanian].

E-prints: Internet books

• L’Universalité ontologique de l’information (Ontological Universality of Information), Préface et notes par Yves Kodratoff, prof., Université de Paris-Sud, Directeur de recherche au CNRS -Bucharest, Editura Academiei, 1996.
• The Depths of Existence, Electronic edition, in English, of a book first published in 1979 (Profunzimile lumii materiale), Bucharest, Editura Politică).

Mind and Consciousness

• The Sources Of Complementarity Between Mind And Body, The Noetic Journal, Vol.4, No.1, Jan 2003, p.33-44.
• The Brain As An Information Processor, NOESIS, XXV, 2000, p.9-20.
• The Interdisciplinary Science of Consciousness, Chapter 5, pp. 46-59, in Science and the Primacy of Consciousness, Intimation of a 21^st Century Revolution, Richard L. Amoroso and others (eds.), Orinda: The Noetic Press, 2000.
• Taylor’s Bridge Across The Explanatory Gap And Its Extension, Consciousness and Cognition, 1998, 7, 165-168.
• Continuities and Discontinuities in the Realms of Life and Mind, Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Tome 41,1997, Nos 1-2, p.3-9.
• Sur la notion et le domaine de la Vie Artificielle (On the notion and the domain of artificial life), Bulletin de la Classe des Sciences, Academie Royale de Belgique, 6e serie, Tome VI, No.7-12, 1995, 13 pages.
• Mind and Artificial Intelligence, NOESIS, vol.XII, 1986, p.129-183.
• De la filosofia la stiinta mentalului (From the Philosophy to the Science of the Mind), Academica, iunie 1997, p.11-12. Revista româna de filosofie, XLIV, Nr.5, sep-oct 1997, p. 457-464.
• Procesarea mentală a informaţiei (Mental Processing of Information, abstract in English), Memoriile Sect. St. ale Acad. Române, SERIA IV, Tom. XX, 1997, p.263-284. Also in Academica, Oct.1997, p.14-15 (I), Nov.1997, p. 26-27 (II), Dec.1997, p.31-32 (III).
• Conştiinţa fundamentală a existenţei (The Fundamental Consciousness of Existence), conference, published in ACADEMICA Jan., Febr., March 1998.
• Deep Reality, Conscious Universe and Complementarity, NOETIC JOURNAL, Vol. 1, No.1, June 1997, p.114-117.
• On the Structural-Phenomenological Theories of Consciousness, NOETIC JOURNAL, Vol.1, No.1, June 1997, p.28-33.
• On the Notions of Understanding and Intelligence, NOESIS, 1998, XXIII, pp.87-97.
• Structural-Phenomenological Theories in Europe and USA, The Noetic Journal, vol. 2, 1999, No 1-2, p.4-8.
• The Method of the Structural-phenomenological Recognition, February, 1997.

Science and Technology of Information

• Spoken Language Technology, communication, The 2nd Conference on Speech Technology and Man-Machine Dialogue, Academia Română, April 10-12, 2003.
• Neural Engineering and Neuroelectronics Facing Artificial Consciousness, Communication at the INGIMED II Conference, Bucharest, Dec. 13, 2001; Federaţia Română de Inginerie Biologică.
• From Solid State To Quantum And Molecular Electronics, The Deepening Of Information Processing, Invited paper at the International Semiconductor Conference, Sinaia, 8-11 oct. 1997, published in the volume I of the Conference, p.5-21.
• Information, Heuristics, Creation, in the volume I. Plander (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence and Information, Control Systems of Robots, Elsevier (North-Holland), 1984, pp.25-29.
• Concepte generale şi probleme cuantice ale procesării informaţiei (General Concepts and Quantum Problems of the Information Processing), publicata în vol. Rolul Invãtãmântului şi al Cercetării ştiinşifice universitare în dezvoltarea Societăţii Informaţionale, Fac. de Automatică şi Calculatoare, Universitatea Politehnică Bucureşti, 1997, p. 31-39.
• Electronica funcţională (Functional Electronics), Editura Tehnică, Bucharest, 1991 [in Romanian]. Contents of the volume.
• Informaţia şi forţele fundamentale (Information and Fundamental Forces), communication at the 1998 Spring Scientific Session of the Academy of Scientists of Romania, published in the volume (editors) Mihai Drăgănescu and Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu, Natura realităţii fizice şi a informaţiei (The Nature of Physical Reality and of Information), Editura Tempus, Bucureşti, 1999, p. 5- 16.

Information Society – Knowledge Society

• De la societatea informaţională la societatea cunoaşterii (From the information society to the knowledge society), Bucureşti, Editura Tehnică, 2003.
• Noua cultura in secolul XXI, Bucuresti, Editura Semne, 2004.
• Cultura şi societatea cunoaşterii, publicat în vol. coord. Dan Tufiş, Florin Filip, Limba Română în Societatea Informaţională-Societatea Cunoşterii, Editura Expert, Bucureşti, 2002, p.441-442, 459-472.
• Cultura la scară naţională, Forumul national al culturii, Bucuresti, 19 iunie 2002.
• Broadband and the Knowledge Society, Communication presented at the International Conference Information Society Technologies for Broadband Europe, 9-11 October 2002, Marriott Grand Hotel, Bucharest, România.
• Perspectivele societăţii cunoaşterii în România, Comunicare la “Al V-lea Simpozion Stiintific al Inginerilor Români de Pretutindeni”, AGIR, Bucuresti, 13-14 septembrie 2002.
• Notă deschisă privind ştiinţa, cultura şi societatea românească, 29 aprilie 2002.
• Învăţământul electronic în societatea cunoaşterii (E-learning in the Knowledge Society), 28 martie 2002.
• Ştiinţa cognitivă, ştiinţa structurală sau integrativă? (Cognitive Science, Structural or Integrative Science?), November 2001.
• Cunoaşterea în secolul XXI (Knowledge in the XXIst Century), October 2001.
• Societatea informaţională şi a cunoaşterii. Vectorii societăţii cunoaşterii ( The Information and Knowledge society. The Vectors of the Knowledge Society), studiu pentru Proiectul SI-SC (Societatea Informaţională – Societatea Cunoaşterii) al Academiei Române, Bucureşti, 9 iulie 2001.
• Societatea cunoaşterii şi cartea electronicã (The Knowledge Society and the Electronic Book), comunicare la simpozionul Cartea electronicã, Academia Românã, 21 iunie 2001, publicată în volumul coord. Doina Banciu, Cartea Electronică, Editura AGER, Bucureşti, 2001, p. 26-42.
• Societatea cunoaşterii (Knowledge Society), Diplomat Club, Nr.6, 2001, p.1-2.
• Knowledge Management, a Functional Vector of the Knowledge Society, communication at the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Public Administration, Sinaia, Oct.29, 2001, published in the volume and CD of the conference and in Diplomat Club, nr.10-11, 2001, p.4.

Consciousness Society

• FUNDAMENTELE NATURALE ALE SOCIETĂŢII CONŞTIINŢEI (Cap. 3 al studiului despre Societatea Conştiinţei), noiembrie 2005 [ The natural fundamentals of the consciousness society].
• SPIRITUALITATEA (Cap.2 al studiului despre Societatea Conştiinţei), noiembrie 2004.
• PROPUNERE pentru alegerea M.S. Mihai I ca membru de onoare al Academiei Române, 19 martie 2004.
• Cultura (care anume?) şi filosofia politică, 24 noiembrie 2003.
• Societatea conştiinţei. Introducere, Raport de cercetare, noiembrie 2003.
• Conştiinţa, frontieră a ştinţei, frontieră a omenirii (Consciousness, frontier of science, frontier of mankind), in Revista de Filosofie, XLVII, No. 1-2, p. 15-21, 2000.
• Neural Engineering and Neuroelectronics Facing Artificial Consciousness, Communication at the INGIMED II Conference, Bucharest, Dec. 13, 2001; Federaţia Română de Inginerie Biologică.
• Paricidul moral, in Literatorul, 1997, nr.1-2, p.11.
• Criterii transpolitice şi criterii transmafiote în cultură, in Caiete Critice, 18 mai 1997, nr. 3-4, p.145-147.

History of the Science and Technology

• Mihai Drăgănescu, Academia Română la sfărşitul mandatelor de preşedinte ale Acad. Eugen Simion, 24 august 2005.
• Coord. Mihai Drăgănescu, Telecomunicaţiile în România. Pagini de istorie, Editura Academiei Române, Bucureşti, 2003.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Academicianul Aurel Avramescu, promotor al disciplinelor ştiinţei şi tehnologiei informaţiei, comunicare la sesiunea “Centenar Aurel Avramescu”, Academia Română, amfiteatrul Heliade Radulescu, 20 noiembrie 2003.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Din istoria telecomunicaţiilor în România, comunicare, Academia Română, 15 aprilie 2003.
• Ed. Mihai Drăgănescu, Adrian Rusu, Ştefan Iancu, Tudor Tănăsescu, fondatorul şcolii româneşti de electronică, (Tudor Tanasescu, the Founder of the Romanian School of Electronics), Editura Dorotea, Bucuresti, 2001.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Tudor Tănăsescu şi şcoala româneasca de electronică (Tudor Tanasescu and the Romanian School of electronics), Bucureşti, 7 martie 2001.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Realizarea de calculatoare şi reţele de calculatoare în România (1953-1985) (Computers and networks of computers realized in Romania, 1953-1958), Academia Română, November 2001.
• Mihai Drăgănescu, Factori noi în viaţa cultural-ştiinţifică-politica globală: terorismul şi antiterorismul, comunicare la Simpozionul ‘Terorismul-noua formă de manifestare pe plan mondial, a confruntărilor militare asimetrice‘, Cercul Militar Naţional, Bucureşti, 12 dec. 2001.