Lean Knowledge Management Helped Change NASA's Culture and It Can Do the Same for Your Organization. NASA suffered three human spaceflight tragedies and Lean Knowledge Management was a major tool that helped NASA management implement massive cultural changes. Traditional knowledge management is too often regarded as overly complicated or a wasteful bureaucratic exercise, but Lean Knowledge Management can become a critical component for your organization...

Russell Hardin is professor of politics at New York University and the author of many books, including David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist, Indeterminacy and Society (Princeton), Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, and One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict (Princeton). How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting...

Catherine Z. Elgin is Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Harvard University. Her books include With Reference to Reference and Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary. She coauthored Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences with Nelson Goodman. Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered....

Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge by Karl Mannheim is a foundational work in the field of sociology, offering profound insights into how human thought, knowledge, and ideology are shaped by social contexts. Originally published in the early 20th century, Mannheim's essays explore the relationship between knowledge and society, challenging the notion that ideas exist independently of the social environment in which they arise. His work remains essential...

Extrait : "L'école d'Élée, en révoquant en doute l'expérience, est la première qui ait tracé une vaste théorie de l'erreur. Le sens, pour Xénophane, n'offre que les objets en particulier, c'est la raison qui en saisit l'ensemble ; mais elle conduit à l'unité, à l'infini, et le monde, d'après elle, doit être un, immuable, éternel, sans bornes. Donc la nature, telle qu'elle se manifeste dans nos sensations, est incompréhensible ; les...

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories. Having adequate knowledge of the world is not just a matter of survival but also one of obligation. This obligation to "know well" is what philosophers have termed "epistemic responsibility." In this innovative and eclectic study, Lorraine Code explores the possibilities inherent in this concept as a basis for understanding human attempts...

In the 1990s, the “knowledge economy” was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization – an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing levels of social exclusion and widening regional inequality. The shift to knowledge-driven growth appeared to offer policymakers a way of harnessing technological progress and global economic integration...

Michael Williams is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism," according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called...

The status of knowledge management (KM) as a mature science has long been recognized in the academic world. However, in the economic arena, its connection with companies and organizations has been more gradual. Jean-Louis Ermine established a theoretical and practical framework for KM in his book, Knowledge Management: The Creative Loop — issued by the same publishers as this book. In this latest tome, practical examples are illustrated with real...

"The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old routines to the difficulty of new ones. We fail to update the beliefs we formed in the past for the challenges we face in the present. But in a rapidly changing world, we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking....