Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy formulate a critique against too-narrowly defined approaches to governance, where governance follows onesidedly bureaucratic or technocratic considerations. Instead, epistemic governance (also quality management and quality enhancement) and epistemic innovation policy should be regarded as a plea for a more comprehensive understanding, where ...

This paper aims to analyze the way in which the Greek press treats the socio-epistemic constitution of science and technology. By “socio-epistemic constitution” we mean the following dimensions: (a) techno-scientific methodology, (b) the social organization of the techno-scientific endeavor, and (c) the interactions of science and technology with other public spheres. Our methodology is based o...

We identified the speech act categories and clusters of discourse comments of journalism mentors who interact with students editing news stories. Two important speech act categories are evaluations and suggestions. Latent semantic analysis and principal components analyses helped us discover clusters of comments involving evaluations and suggestions. The comments of mentors were also significan...

Epistemic actions are physical actions people take to simplify internal problem solving rather than to move closer to an external goal. When playing the video game Tetris, for instance, experts routinely rotate falling shapes more than is strictly needed to place the shapes. Maglio and Kirsh (Kirsh & Maglio, 1994; Maglio, 1995) proposed that such actions might serve the purpose of priming memor...

The output of a simulation model does not, prima facie, appear to have an objective status comparable with data captured by observation or experiment. Counter to this Winsberg, Humphreys and others emphasise parallels between experiment and simulation in practices which are said to “carry with them their own credentials” (Winsberg, 2010). Humphreys holds that that the physical implementation of...

I am in the middle of Manhattan and I am lost. I approach a likely stranger on the road and ask him, pointing to the right: “Is this the way to the railway station?” Discounting for a moment the possibility that I will be ignored and that the stranger will continue on his way (of which the—trivial—game move equivalent would be “I prefer not to answer the question”), I will now get one of three ...

The epistemic program can be viewed as a methodical construction of game theory from its most basic elements—rationality and irrationality, belief and knowledge about such matters, beliefs about beliefs, knowledge about knowledge, and so on. To date, the epistemic field has been mainly focused on game matrices and trees—i.e., on the non-cooperative branch of game theory. It has been used to pro...