Applied Epistemology (Engaging Philosophy)

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Fidel, R.E. (2012). Human information interaction: an ecological approach to information behavior. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. One obvious mechanism for this goal is the time-honored art of sophistry. Thanks Phil Mayo for the pointer! You took the words out my mouth, Ishmael. But permit me to amend your opaque remarks. People not only think their friends are not cretins, they think them the last word in wisdom. On account of them holding the same views as themselves. Everyone else is, by extension, a cretin. Perhaps that's what you meant.

Fumerton, Richard. "Epistemology and Science: Some Metaphilosophical Reflections". Philosophical Topics. 45 (1): 1–16. doi: 10.5840/philtopics20174511. S2CID 171850411. Cook, S.D.N., and Brown, J.S. (1999). Bridging epistemologies: the generative dance between organizational knowledge and organizational knowing. Organization Science, 10(4), 381–400. Applied epistemology should help us develop strategies for armoring ourselves against these PSYOPS. I wrote a brief essay on the idea here . What most people don’t realize is that PSYOPS aren’t just deployed in the battlefield, but they are currently being deployed in our day-to-day lives, and I don’t just mean via advertising and public relations. Fallis, D. (2006). Social epistemology and information science. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 40, 475–519.

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But does the reality live up to Wikipedians’ dreams? As a normative enterprise, applied epistemology is uniquely positioned to evaluate to what extent Wikipedia actually improves or damages the landscape of human knowledge. This chapter summarizes the Wikipedia debates within applied epistemology and argues that the social organization of the Wikipedia community shapes its epistemic merits and limitations. A useful framework for the epistemology of Wikipedia is veritistic systems-oriented social epistemology (see Fallis 2011). Systems-oriented social epistemology evaluates epistemic systems according to their epistemic outcomes for community members (Goldman 2011). A veritistic social epistemology takes true belief as the fundamental epistemic good (Goldman 1992, 1999). Thus, a veritistic systems-oriented social epistemology of Wikipedia evaluates Wikipedia’s impact on the formation and dissemination of true beliefs within its community of users. Alvin Goldman ( 1992) lays out five veritistic standards, summarized by Paul Thagard as follows: It is worth noting, however, that some epistemologists have identified other types of knowledge: For instance, Worth ( 2008) argues for narrative knowledge (what x is like), which is compatible with Bruner's ( 1986) argument that story is a mode of human reasoning, complementary to logic. Additionally, van Manen ( 2014) draws from hermeneutic phenomenology in proposing pathic knowledge, as emotional or primordial knowledge (as opposed to gnostic knowledge, which is cognitive or processual knowledge); this seems to be the same dimension of knowledge that pedagogical philosopher James Taylor ( 1998) calls poetic knowledge (a holistic, from-the-inside experience of reality). It may be the case that narrative knowledge, pathic knowledge and poetic knowledge are different names for the same thing: van Manen ( 2014), for instance, asserts that narratives afford pathic knowledge and that pathic knowledge refers to a holistic, from-the-inside experience of reality. Coterminous or not, these concepts point to a dimension of human knowing that has apparently been overlooked in contemporary Anglophone epistemology but which may nonetheless have a place in information science, as Rowley's ( 2007) analysis suggests. The purpose of devising this framework was to clarify the relationship of understanding (as a relatively new concept) to other epistemological concepts in information science. This was necessary as preparatory work for future studies in 'understanding-seeking' information behaviour, which has been suggested by Bawden and Robinson ( 2016a, 2016b) and discerned empirically by, for example, Cowan ( 2004), in a study of the information behaviour of visual artists.

a b c Fumerton, Richard (2009). Epistemology. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-2566-6.Elgin, C.Z. (2017). Exemplification in understanding. In S.R. Grimm, C. Baumberger, and S. Ammon (Eds.), Explaining understanding: New perspectives from epistemology and philosophy of science (pp. 76–91). New York, NY: Routledge. Fallis, D., and Whitcomb, D. (2009). Epistemic values and information management. The Information Society, 25(3), 175–189. Applied epistemology is also used in evaluating philosophical issues. This is the case when empirical perspective is applied to test philosophical theories. [35] While this approach does not eliminate analytic and conceptual issues, it can make them clearer. [35] It also increases the probability of theorists to examine evidences that tend to be overlooked. [35] Cybernetics [ edit ] Bergsmo, Morten; Buis, Emiliano J. (2019). Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Foundational Concepts. Brussel: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. p.288. ISBN 978-82-8348-119-8. Essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, political philosophy, and applied ethics the Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as law, sociology, and politics.