How Does “Collaboration” Occur at All? Remarks on Epistemological Issues Related to Understanding / Working with the Other

• Authors: Faust Don , Puncochar Judith
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Collaboration must be based on careful representation and communication of each stakeholder’s knowledge. Using a foundational logical and epistemological point of view, we explore how such representation and communication can be accomplished. We tenta-tively conclude, based on careful delineation of logical technicalities necessarily involved in such representation and communication, that currently a complete representation is not possible. This inference, if correct, is discouraging. However, we suggest two actions. First, we can strive to make stakeholders more aware of the incompleteness of knowledge representations. Second, moderating one’s certainty of “Truth” should increase each stakeholder’s humility, thereby promoting the efficacy of collaborations.

Keywords

EN

cognition and perception; collaboration; communication; dialogue; epistemology; logic and foundations of mathematics; mathematical logic; overconfidence

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 137-144

Contributors

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Faust Don

• Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 49855 USA

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Puncochar Judith

• Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 49855 USA