Knowledge From Vice: Deeply Social Epistemology

The Essence of Organizational Knowledge: A Social Epistemology Perspective

The relationships between organizational static substance knowledge with ‘belief’, ‘the true’, ‘true belief’, or ‘justified true belief’ have been outlined briefly in 2003. In this article, through combining new research outcomes, I further explore why different kinds of organizational static substance knowledge can be counted as belief, the true, true belief, or justified true belief. The disc...

Group Knowledge versus Group Rationality: Two Approaches to Social Epistemology

Social epistemology is a many-splendored subject. Different theorists adopt different approaches and the options are quite diverse, often orthogonal to one another. The approach I favor is to examine social practices in terms of their impact on knowledge acquisition (Goldman 1999). This has at least two virtues: it displays continuity with traditional epistemology, which historically focuses on...

Why Social Epistemology Is Real Epistemology

Interactive epistemology I: Knowledge

Formal Interactive Epistemology deals with the logic of knowledge and belief when there is more than one agent or ``player.'' One is interested not only in each person's knowledge about substantive matters, but also in his knowledge about the others' knowledge. This paper examines two parallel approaches to the subject. The ®rst is the semantic approach, in which knowledge is represented by a s...

Epistemology and Knowledge Management

INTRODUCTION This article surveys and explores the relationship between epistemology and knowledge management (KM). Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and extent of human knowledge (Klein, 1998b). Knowledge management is clearly deeply indebted to many ideas derived from epistemology. Much of the seminal work in KM discusses epistemology in a fair amount of detai...