Knowledge and Artifacts. Barry Allen's Concept of Knowledge

• Authors: Czarnocka M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Barry Allen postulates that the unit of knowledge is artifact and rejects traditional idea that knowledge consists of true, justified beliefs. Analysis of Allen's concept of knowledge, being a restrictive form of pragmatism, shows that the epistemological change proposed by him is radical to a great degree. Allen neglects all important epistemological distinctions and categories. The concept is rooted in a different culture, activist and one-sidedly pragmatic, far from this one ( which emerged from the ancient Greek ideas) that constitutes a basis for all traditional epistemological models of knowledge.

Keywords

EN

ARTIFACT; EPISTEMOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 351-367
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Czarnocka M.

• M. Czarnocka, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul.Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA00852053