Applied Epistemology (Engaging Philosophy)

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Dourish, P. (2001). Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Day, R.E. (2005). Clearing up 'implicit knowledge': implications for knowledge management, information science, psychology, and social epistemology. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(6), 630–635. Understanding seems to be what happens when information is integrated, rather than merely knowledge. Thus studying understanding can be more naturalistic than studying 'getting knowledge'; and information studies has been seeking more true-to-life approaches to information behaviour ( Fidel, 2012).

This paper will not engage directly in these debates, but it will be open to the work of Floridi as a way to deepen the conceptualization of the epistemic concepts under consideration. Applied epistemology and information studies Budd, J.M. (2011). Meaning, truth, and information: prolegomena to a theory. Journal of Documentation, 67(1), 56–74. Bawden, D. (2016). The noblest pleasure: Theories of understanding in the information science. In D.H. Sonnenwald (Ed.), Theory development in the information sciences (pp. 283–299). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Bates, M.J. (2005). Information and knowledge: an evolutionary framework for information science. Information Research, 10(4), paper 239. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/10-4/paper239.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6Rppv4Tq9)Day, R.E. (2000). The 'conduit metaphor' and the nature and politics of information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(9), 805–811. May 19, 2023 OpenStax. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License . The OpenStax name, OpenStax logo, OpenStax book covers, OpenStax CNX name, and OpenStax CNX logo Day, R.E. (2014). Indexing it all: the subject in the age of documentation, information, and data (history and foundations of information science). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Applied epistemology forms part of the concept of " applied philosophy" as theorists begin to distinguish it from " applied ethics". [5] It is argued that "applied philosophy" is a broader field, and that it has parts that are not subdisciplines of applied ethics. [5] The emergence of "applied philosophy" gained traction after it was proposed that philosophy can be applied to contemporary issues. [6]

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According to Mark Battersby, the method of critical thinking or informal logic can be considered a form of applied epistemology. [6] This method involves the assessment of the strength of evidences that afford conclusions can only be made if the domain within which the argument is presented is taken into account. [26] For Battersby, this constitutes applied epistemology, since it is about grounding assessments of arguments as they occur within them. [26] Mark Weinstein maintained that a focus on the account of how acceptability is transmitted from premises to conclusion show close theoretical parallel between informal logic and applied epistemology. [26] It is argued that rather than rules of logic, epistemological norms constitute the philosophical core of informal logic and that there is a close parallel between informal logic and applied ethics. [27] Based on these factors, scholars such as Battersby and Weinstein maintain that informal logic should be classified as applied epistemology instead of logic. [27] [26] Social issues [ edit ]Human beings do not use ideas to connect with other ideas, much less to connect with the real world, they use them to connect with one another. It is a commonplace observation to say that people believe what their friends believe but it is not so common to observe that there are very strict rules about this. In Hume's time, if you stood up in church and said, "I accept everything but I have reservations about Calvin's theory of pre-destination" you would be in more trouble than simply referring to it as a theory.

Within these sections, the core topics and debates are presented, analyzed, and set into broader historical and disciplinary contexts. The central topics covered include: the prehistory of applied epistemology, expertise and scientific authority, epistemic aspects of political and social philosophy, epistemology and the law, and epistemology and medicine.More recently, ontic understanding has become a compelling subject in epistemology ( Baumberger et al., 2017), with some epistemologists arguing that understanding is the rightful object of epistemology, rather than knowledge ( Greco, 2014; Grimm, 2012; Kvanvig, 2003, 2005). This is because ontic understanding is seen as epistemically more valuable than knowledge and because the traditional factors defining knowledge (truth, justification and belief) are less problematic when considered as factors defining ontic understanding ( Baumberger et al., 2017). However, the precise nature of ontic understanding is hotly debated among epistemologists (just as is, for that matter, knowledge), as reviewed by Baumberger et al. ( 2017). If groups are capable of beliefs, then clearly the question of justification of group belief is relevant. Note that some of the previous theories on epistemic justification are applicable to questions of group justification. Goldman focused on reliable processes. Social epistemology also focuses on the reliability of processes used in juries, democracies, and the sciences. Standpoint Epistemology