Abstract
Ecology and sustainability are current narratives about the behavior of humans toward themselves and the environment. Ecology is defined as a science, and a philosophy of ecology has become a recognized domain of the philosophy of science. For some, sustainability is an accepted, important moral goal. In 2013, a Special Issue of the journal Sustainability dealt with many of the relevant issues. Unfortunately, the economic, ideological, and psychological barriers to ethical behavior and corresponding social action remain great as well as obvious. In this paper, I propose that a new, non-standard and non-propositional logic of real processes, Logic in Reality (LIR) grounded in physics applies to the science and philosophy of these narratives and helps to explicate them. Given the ecological role of organizations and institutions, reference is often made to organizational or institutional logics as guides to ecological practice. This paper suggests that these logics are either too abstract or too informal to have an impact in a conflictual world. Recognition of the suggested new, transdisciplinary logical dimension of ecological processes may provide credibility and support to new initiatives in ecology and its philosophy.
Highlights
Ecology or ecological science is an approach to a better understanding of the complex interrelationships between humans and their environment
There is a further reason for including the Lupasco approach in this paper on ecology: Lupasco effected a return of logic to its original sense of a global science of nature, which one might call a metalogical “rejunction” [27]
As defined by Zhong, the principles of Logic in Reality outlined above are pertinent to this Information Ecology in several ways, but the most important is that there need be no separation between this concept of IE and the more familiar one of Capurro
Summary
Ecology or ecological science is an approach to a better understanding of the complex interrelationships between humans and their environment It is a necessary part of any effort to respond to the resistance and barriers to ecological progress and achieve the goal of a sustainable world. This paper was stimulated in part by two recent Summit Conferences on Information organized by the International Society for Studies of Information (IS4SI): Response and Responsibility in the Information Sciences, Vienna, 2015 and Digitalization for a Sustainable Society, Gothenburg, 2017. The latter included a panel discussion entitled “Sustainability in the Digital.
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