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1Knowledge Management and Science 1 Citation Occasionally, someone in KM brings up the question of whether the discipline is a science. And then the arguments start. Some dislike the idea of science and deny that KM has anything to do science. Others identify science with knowledge that successfully describes, predicts and explains; and they conclude that the discipline of KM with its body of highly questionable and disputed knowledge, is in no way a science. Still others think that science is not a matter of approach, but rather is, technorati.com
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1 Citation Check out the picture at Bad Astronomy . What do you think of it? Do you see the blue and green spirals? Did you read the explanation that both spirals are really the same color - that our senses are deceived by the proximity of the other colors? At the end of the post the author says, ?So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. What you see in life is absolutely and provably not what you get.? It is true in this case that what you, technorati.com
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My Refutation of the Doomsday Argument 1 Citation It has been more than a month since my paper, ? Past Longevity as Evidence for the Future ,? appeared in Philosophy of Science . The most important parts of the paper present my own positive ideas on an objective means for using knowledge of the past as evidence for the future. However, part of the paper presents what is, in my judgment, a new and definitive refutation of the Doomsday Argument popularized by philosopher John Leslie. This Doomsday Argument has been debated for the past t, technorati.com
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1 Citation No, this is not a vain effort to sound scientifically astute (I?m not), nor is it a an effort to come up with the most obscure and ridiculous post title in the history of the blogosphere. So what on earth is visual agnosia? The basic concept is that, when it comes to the biology of how we see the world, there is a difference between sight and perception . When we see something there is apparently a process that takes place ? first light falls on the receptor cells in the retina, then a se, technorati.com
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The Elusive God, Chapter 1, Sections 5-8 1 Citation First, thanks to Matthew Mullins and the other Prosblogion contributors for setting up and participating in this online book club. The second part of Moser's equivocally named chapter 1 ("Doubting Skeptics", where "Doubting" refers both to skeptics' doubting of God's reality and Moser's doubting of skeptics' having discharged their epistemic obligations) consists of four sections: "5. Volitional Knowing"; "6. Skeptical Tests"; "7. Trust and Distrust"; and "8. Voice Lessons". Since each of thes, technorati.com
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1 Citation A senior EPA scientist was rebuffed after trying to distribute a report expressing doubts about a pending global warming policy. He was told that it would not be released since it might jeopardize the policy, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has discovered . The author took the EPA to task for relying on outdated research and for relying on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It was a last-minute attempt to inject some caution into the incautious process by which the EPA was goin, technorati.com
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A Dialog on Knowledge Processing 1 Citation During a discussion in the act-km group , Neil Olonoff expressed his distaste for the phrase ?knowledge processing,? which I use frequently as a summary term for the activities in the second tier of the three-tier model of KM . In reply, I said that I?m not constitutionally wedded to the phrase ?knowledge processing,? that the phrase ? problem solving pattern ? could be used instead, and that if we did that, KM could be defined as activities intended to enhance some aspects of the problem solv, technorati.com
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Stephen Hawking, Une breve histoire du temps. Du big bang aux trous noirs. 1 Citation Vive Hawking ! vive la Science !Stephen Hawking nous propose un petit ouvrage didactique sur l?histoire de l?univers qui, en realite, s?avere etre tout autant une histoire de l?espace et du temps qu?une histoire des sciences physiques modernes. On peut lire ce ouvrage comme il se presente, c?est-a-dire comme un breviaire explique de notions fondamentales permettant de mieux apprehender le passe, le present et le future de l?univers. Et de chacun en fonction de ses connaissances, de suivre au m, technorati.com
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Dr. Doug Geivett?s Recommendations for Learning Epistemology 1 Citation Here?s a fine blog post by Doug Geivett on books he recommends for gaining a good grasp of contemporary epistemology (theory of knowledge). In his own courses, Dr. Geivett prefers Robert Audi, Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction Richard Feldman, Epistemology Laurence Bon Jour, Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses He explains: These books complement each other nicely. The book by Robert Audi will require a tutor for most who are new to, technorati.com
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Plato?s Theism and Martyr?s Humanism 1 Citation The Medieval world knew Aristotle from the translations of Boethius and the Muslim commentators, all of which interpreted the Stagarite through the lens of his Neoplatonic commentators. Aquinas realized that the Liber de Causis was written by Proclus, not Aristotle as tradition claimed. Yet, he continued commenting on that book and was influenced by it, and he was influenced by the Neoplatonism of the Pseudo-Dionysius. As Kristeller notes, during the time of the Renaissance philosophers began, technorati.com
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