The substitution of knowledge to information as the entity that organizations process and deliver raises a number of questions concerning the nature of knowledge. The dispute on the codifiability of tacit knowledge and that juxtaposing the epistemology of practice vs. the epistemology of possession can be better faced by revisiting two crucial debates. One concerns the nature of cognition and t...

W i responded to stephen White’s deep and elegant lecture in rome, i said that i agreed with his transcendental argument and i do. it is a profound contribution to the discussion of the epistemology and phenomenology of perception. and apart from one minor textual issue having to do with William James,1 was so convinced by that lecture that i had no criticism to voice. But on a subsequent close...

OBJECTIVES Once weekly dosing of alendronate has been shown to provide equivalent efficacy to once daily dosing for treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Whether patients will prefer weekly dosing to daily dosing for a chronic condition such as osteoporosis has not been studied. The aim of this international study was to assess preference for the weekly or daily dosing regimen of a...

Methodology is epistemology: the way of studying a phenomenon depends on the view of that phenomenon. In attempting to avoid anthropomorphism endowing or attributing human form and especially feelings and abilities to animals we have developed a particular mode of finding out which we term science. In this mode we feel it is appropriate to be 'objective' that is to remove our own feelings, thou...

On a prima facia reading, Zhuangzi seems to endorse some form of skepticism or relativism. This at odds with as one the two main sources classical Daoism, considering ideals virtue and self-development promoted by that philosophy. However, Zhuangzi’s metaphorical allegorical style lends itself number interpretations his epistemology, well kind self-knowledge ethical development it might allow. ...

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John Pollock did a lot of interesting and important work on the metaphysics and epistemology of probability over several decades. In Thinking About Acting [15], we find many fascinating and thought provoking ideas and arguments (both old and new) about probability. Owing to limitations of space, I will be confining my remarks to a handful of issues addressed in [15] pertaining to probability, l...

How can social epistemology (SE) be characterized so that all of these topics fit under its umbrella? Why does each topic qualify as epistemology and in what respects is it social? This paper begins by proposing a tripartite division of SE. Under this classification scheme the first variety of SE is highly continuous with traditional epistemology, whereas the second and third varieties diverge ...