Knowledge Workshop

Knowledge Management Consortium International
Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' One of Knowledge Management’s mysteries is the relative lack of attention paid to the theory of knowledge. Everyone who writes a KM book seems to offer a definition of knowledge, but they usually don’t critically review the literature or attempt to explain why their definition is to be preferred to alternatives. Since “knowledgeâ€?is certainly central to KM as a discipline, and one can hardly develop coherent ideas about KM, without having a clear notion of “knowledgeâ€?in mind, this “conspiracy of silenceâ€?can give a person new to the field pause. The conspiracy exists however, because 2500 years of discourse on the nature of knowledge have not sufficed to produce a widely accepted theory of knowledge, and Knowledge Management practitioners don’t want to become mired down in age-old controversies, that involve a level of theorizing that few of them have either the desire or the capability to engage in.

However, no matter how much KM practitioners wish to place the issue of what knowledge is on the back-burner, it won’t stay there. The reason is that what one thinks about the nature of knowledge impacts what one thinks the differences between knowledge and information are, and also impacts what one thinks KM intervention is, and the nature of the KM interventions one will favor or oppose. So, each KM practitioner, must know enough about the Theory of Knowledge to decide for themselves on the view they will adopt, and on how it is related to KM as they see it. It is the purpose of this workshop to enable people to begin this consideration by learning a little bit about the evolution of ideas about knowledge and the details of some contemporary views.

During the last century our ideas about knowledge changed. We used to think it was "Justified True Belief". We now think it is "Justified True Belief". But we don’t mean what we used to mean by "justified". We also have a more complex view of "belief". And many of us now believe that knowledge doesn’t even have to be "true".

This Workshop is the story of how and why our ideas about knowledge have changed, and what our ideas, on the cutting edge, are like now. It is the story of how we’ve moved from an absolutist supernatural perspective on knowledge to a natural and fallibilist, Darwinian one. It is also the story of how we’ve moved from justified to unjustified knowledge, and from a view that knowledge is unique to humans to one that views knowledge as an important feature of all life "from the amoeba to Einstein".

Finally, this Workshop is about the very fundamental difference the changes in our ideas about knowledge make in how we ought to go about making new knowledge in our own lives, in our enterprises, and in our Governments. The Workshop will cover:

Traditional Philosophical Views

Pragmatism

Critical Rationalism

Knowledge Meta-contexts

The Views of Complexity and Second Order Cybernetics

Evolutionary Epistemology

Knowledge and Culture

Views of Knowledge in Knowledge Management

Alternative Definitions

Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge

The Pyramid

The Popperian View
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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:(703) 461-8823

School Address:

KMCI, c/o Joseph M. Firestone, 309 Yoakum Parkway, #603, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 22304


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