EPISTEMIC ISSUES IN PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called episteme the present focus is on some less assured modes of information Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture guesswork and plausible supposition This shift of focus has implications for virtually every sector of information management and the book39s instigations presented here will explore some of them Throughout the rule of pragmatic considerations stand in the foreground As the book39s deliberations set out in detail the nature of our knowledge of reality is inherently conditioned by the fact of its beings the product of what is at best and at most a matter of rational guesswork And so as regards our knowledge we had best adopt the pragmatic optimism of expectingand hopingthat our best is good enough