Systematic Knowledge Research. Rethinking Epistemology

• Main Author: Guenther Abel
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2014-04-01
• Series: Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia
• Subjects: Knowledge Research; Epistemology; Types of Knowledge; Epistemic Cultures; Science Studies
• Online Access: http://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2014.0002

Systematic Knowledge Research is the approach used to (i) describe the specific characteristics of various forms of knowledge (such as e.g. conceptual and non-conceptual knowledge; explicit and implicit knowledge; knowing-how and knowing-that). It (ii) investigates the overlapping points among the various kinds of knowledge forms, and it (iii) elucidates the mechanisms of interpenetration among them. Systematic Knowledge Research (iv) grasps the dynamic of various forms of knowledge and their interplay, and (v) describes the practices and the manifestations of knowledge. Systematic Knowledge Research provides analyses and suggestions for modeling each of the five fields as well as their interconnections. Because of these objectives Systematic Knowledge Research is different from both the traditional theory of knowledge and the varieties of science studies and meets the current desideratum to systematically broaden and revise the territory of epistemology.