Knowledge: Critical Concepts, Volume 1Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann This five volume collection brings together a carefully selected array of contributions from a variety of disciplines. Featuring essays from philosophers who have investigated the foundations of knowledge, and addressing different forms of knowledge in society such as common sense and practical knowledge, this collection also discusses the role of knowledge in economic process and gives attention to the role of expert knowledge in political decision making. Including a collection of articles from the sociology of knowledge and science, the set also provides a new introduction and full index by the editors, making it a unique and invaluable research resource for both student and scholar. Coverage includes: 1. Foundations of Knowledge - Knowledge, Experience and Mind - Knowledge and Reality - Knowledge and Skepticism - Knowledge and Ignorance - Knowledge and Uncertainty 2: Knowledge and Society: Forms of Knowledge - Everyday Knowledge - Practical knowledge - Tacit knowledge - Secret Knowledge - Scientific Knowledge - Hermeneutics - Knowledge Construction - Indigenous (traditional) knowledge 3: Knowledge and the Economy - The Economics of Knowledge - Knowledge and Organisations - Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge Based Systems (firms) - Knowledge Management - Knowledge and Information - Knowledge and Law 4: Politics and Knowledge - Science and Policy-Making - The Power of Ideas and Discourse - The Politics of Knowledge 5: Sociology of Knowledge and Science - Classical Perspectives - Modern Views - Science Studies |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
PART | 8 |
A new concept of ideology? | 21 |
Extracts from The Principles of Philosophy | 25 |
Sociology and theory of knowledge | 40 |
Extracts from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | 43 |
PART 15 | 56 |
Extracts from A Treatise Concerning the Principles | 60 |
Theses on Feuerbach | 176 |
PART 11 | 179 |
PART 26 | 185 |
Brains in a vat | 192 |
Science Studies | 205 |
Philosophy without mirrors | 208 |
The hermeneutic significance of temporal distance | 221 |
Truth and the growth of scientific knowledge | 224 |
interpreting policy | 77 |
Extracts from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | 81 |
Introduction and Preamble from Prolegomena | 96 |
Tacit Knowledge | 99 |
Two dogmas of empiricism | 117 |
How to make our ideas clear | 137 |
Knowledge and Organizations | 149 |
Extract from On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians | 153 |
PART 16 | 163 |
PART 9 | 164 |
PART 10 | 171 |
the spring pressure and weight of the air | 228 |
a methodological survey | 244 |
The sociology of knowledge 63 | 245 |
Facts and artefacts | 255 |
Empiricism semantics and ontology | 267 |
Extract from On Certainty | 283 |
Index | 285 |
Three views concerning human knowledge | 306 |
Some social functions of ignorance | 333 |
heuristics and biases | 371 |
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