SCIENCE AS RADICAL KNOWLEDGE

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

The roots of Knowledge and Information science

Knowledge and Information science is rooted in philosophy and its branches are in sociology. This does not impair its interdisciplinary position. In Iran, the name of "LIS" has undergone a little change and called "knowledge & Information Science (KIS)". Through this change, the importance of philosophy in this discipline has reached its highest level. Knowledge science has a great relationship...

Excessive Accumulation of Knowledge as a Challenge to Science Policy

In response to current economic theories, a special emphasis is put on the need for continuous acquisition of knowledge. The stock of knowledge, however, is growing very dynamically, which leads to shifts in the scientific process. There are shifts in individual innovative productivity, which is manifested by the fact that the contribution of young scientists to science is getting smaller and –...

Promisingness Judgments as Facilitators of Knowledge Building in Elementary Science

Promisingness Judgments as Facilitators of Knowledge Building in Elementary Science Bodong Chen Doctor of Philosophy Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto 2014 Recognizing promising ideas is an important component of expertise and creativity (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1993; Csikszentmihalyi, 2009; Gardner, 1994). The goal ...

Data Mining and Science ? Knowledge discovery in science as opposed to business Brian

The relatively new discipline of data mining is most often applied to extraction of useful knowledge from business data. However, it is also useful in some scientific applications where this more empirical approach complements traditional data analysis. The example of machine learning from air quality data illustrates this alternative.