IN conversation with a learned friend lately, our talk ran on various definitions of culture, and on the fact that for one reason or another we found them all unsatisfactory. This led us to ponder the ...

In the jargon of academia, the study of what we can know, and how we can know it, is called “epistemology.” During the 1980s, philosopher Richard Rorty declared it dead and bid it good riddance. To ...

Building a successful knowledge management practice to capture, share, and transfer institutional knowledge is more essential than ever. IT operations needs to innovate, provide services globally, and ...

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This paper defends the epistemological doctrine of fallibilism from recent objections. In "The Myth of Knowledge" Laurence BonJour argues that we should reject fallibilism for two main reasons: first, ...

As Baby Boomers retire, companies wonder how to retain the knowledge that walks out with them. They have spent billions of dollars generating knowledge, and some of them do an excellent job sharing ...

This post offers a step-by-step breakdown of an interactive, value clarification exercise for clinical, non-clinical, and student populations. I have found that this activity can be used when working ...