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Professional ICT Knowledge, Epistemic Standards, and Social Epistemology KU Leuven
Several co-evolving trends have impacted expectations of professional workers’ quality of knowledge. The abundance of information shared through the internet, the ever-increasing specialization of tasks, the possibility of immediately accessible information through social networks, the participation of stakeholders in the social web, and the increased requirements for separation of duty in a corporate context have contributed to a situation ...
Applying social Constructionist Epistemology to research in psychology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
'Hybrid' Sustainability Issues and the Entanglement of Discourse and Matter: Epistemology and Didactics Ghent University
Within the academic literature, a growing awareness is surfacing with regard to wicked socio-ecological problems’ resistance to resolution by existing institutions and available expertise being linked to their specific ‘hybrid’ nature. It is argued that our dominant and deeply rooted Western worldview, with its strict division between, on the one hand, the world of nonhuman objects, science, nature, materiality, etc. and, on the other, the world ...
Trust and Value in Epistemology and Research KU Leuven
Bias, trust and testimony present a challenge at an academic, societal and economic level. In our daily lives, we constantly assess the trustworthiness of our sources: Is this media outlet biased? Who are the credible expert witnesses in court cases? Which websites should we trust with our personal data? Which peer-to-peer applications should we trust? All of these questions require urgent resolution. I therefore propose a bold yet feasible ...
Epistemology of Space: Exploring Relational Perspectives in Planning, Urbanism, and Architecture KU Leuven
In this special issue, we start from the proposition that space, its uses and transformations are multi-significant and that their study requires an interdisciplinary approach. However, the elaborate division of labour in the sciences has also led to the compartmentalization of knowledge about space in different disciplinary fields with their associated, often idiosyncratic concepts, methods, and theoretical approaches. As a result, there is no ...