Whose Knowledge?

Whose Knowledge?

Sir Rudolph Peierls, in a reply to John Bell’s last critique of the state of our understanding of quantum mechanics, maintained that it is easy to give an acceptable account of the physical significance of the quantum theory. The key is to recognize that all the density matrix characterizing a physical system ever represents is knowledge about that system. In answer to Bell’s implicit rejoinder...

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Sir Rudolph Peierls, in a reply to John Bell’s last critique of the state of our understanding of quantum mechanics, maintained that it is easy to give an acceptable account of the physical significance of the quantum theory. The key is to recognize that all the density matrix characterizing a physical system ever represents is knowledge about that system. In answer to Bell’s implicit rejoinder...

Postmodernism and criminological thought : ‘ Whose science ? Whose knowledge ?

Transferring Whose Knowledge? Exchanging Whose Best Practices?: On Knowing About Indigenous Knowledge and Aboriginal Suicide

Over the better part of a decade we have been hard at work re-fashioning a still earlier decade’s worth of work on identity development and youth suicide in order to better fit these efforts to the special circumstances of Canadian Aboriginal youth—an ongoing effort aimed at explaining two deeply puzzling matters. One of these concerns the heartbreakingly high rate of suicide widely known to ma...

Whose Knowledge? Whose Management?: Cognitive Considerations for the Provision of Virtual Library Services to School Communities

Participating in knowledge management requires libraries to understand cognitive aspects of knowledge acquisition and sharing, and the inadequacies of Information Technology driven knowledge management initiatives. Discontinuities in the data-information-knowledge continuum make information fundamentally different from knowledge. There are three knowledge principles critical to successful desig...