Concepts, Conceptions and Self-Knowledge

Wittgenstein : Concepts or Conceptions ?

I WANT TO MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONCEPTS (BEGRIFFE) AND CONCEPTIONS (Auflassungen), and a related distinction between descriptions (Beschreibungen) and pictures (Bilder). I will then try to put this material to work in clarifying an important dimension in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Invest&ations: the difference between conceptual analyses and overviews ( Ubersichten or Uberblicken) [comp...

Knowledge and Conceptions of the Knowledge Society

This paper will draw upon research into the conditions under which New Zealand could become a knowledge society by the HUMANZ Knowledge Policy Research Group. This research exists principally as a report commissioned by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Knowledge, Innovation and Creativity: designing a knowledge society for a small, democratic country . This report argues for th...

Conceptions of Knowledge

Young children's conceptions of knowledge

Philosophy Compass. 2018;e12494. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12494 Abstract How should knowledge be analyzed? Compositionally, as having constituents like belief and justification, or as an atomic concept? In making arguments for or against these perspectives, epistemologists have begun to use experimental evidence from developmental psychology and developmental linguistics. If we were to conc...

Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation

Many representations of the movement of healthcare knowledge through society exist, and multiple models for the translation of evidence into policy and practice have been articulated. Most are linear or cyclical and very few come close to reflecting the dense and intricate relationships, systems and politics of organizations and the processes required to enact sustainable improvements. We illus...