Polanyi and the Epistemology of Science – C. Sean Burns

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Summary:

There are a number of ways to read Polanyi (2009), and the knowledge management literature has taken off with the very singular aspect of his work — that “we can know more than what we can tell” (p. 4) (as well as Nonaka’s version of tacit knowledge), and much of the focus has been on business and organizational management. However, Polanyi’s idea has an important implication for the nature and work of science, with implications for science policy, and Polanyi discusses this in some detail in the third chapter. We can relate the implication to some modern developments. There is a growing number of researchers who are actively pursuing a thing called open science. Some of the arguments put forth in favor of a process that opens science include claims that an open science will result in a more efficient system that takes advantage of web and Internet technologies, is able to operate with better transparency, is better at re-using other scientists’ data, and is better at attributing other scientists’ work (e.g., see Woelfle, Olliaro, and Todd, 2011). In some ways, we might say that an open science is the full, or nearly full, realization of the inherent norms of scientific practice.

Link:

https://cseanburns.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/polanyi-and-the-epistemology-of-science/

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Date tagged:

01/21/2016, 15:56

Date published:

01/21/2016, 10:56