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1. PROJECTION OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES TOWARDS THE PAST.

Author

Felix Jr., Arnulfo

Subjects
*THEORY of knowledge, *KNOWLEDGE management, *SCIENTIFIC knowledge, *HUMANITIES, *RATIONALISM
Abstract

This reflection paper examines the role of History in Knowledge Societies. It simultaneously follows two parallel premises. First, it discusses Knowledge Societies' reactions derived from the idea of a non-existent present as theorized by German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The fact that this unformed future, which cannot be reached until the future comes to fruition, has been overlooked in the development of Knowledge Society theories. It also looks at the dilemma that Knowledge Societies are not self-sufficient sciences, and thus they must be examined within the context of an already recognized science, such as History, to develop exact, stable and fully-explored procedures. My argument suggests that much of what we today call "Knowledge Societies" was not bred by a KS paradigm but rather by a projection towards the past that is understood by way of a historical approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018

2. Does 'Peirce' Have a History? A Contribution to a History of the 'Moment of Theory'.

Author

Freadman, Anne

Subjects
*HISTORY, *THEORY of knowledge, *PRAGMATISM, *SOCIAL sciences, *HUMANITIES
Abstract

There is not yet, and perhaps never could be, a clear canonical history that makes sense of Charles Sanders Peirce. In this sense, despite the best efforts of Peirce scholarship, Peirce is not 'an author'. A highly technical philosopher who worked on several fronts, he appears to espouse positions that the standard traditions of philosophical debate find difficult to hold together. Partly because of the fragmentary nature of his oeuvre, and partly because of the diversity of his interests, he is often appropriated into projects, these appropriations contributing further to the difficulty of telling a single sense-making story. In this paper, I sketch five stories: 1. Peirce as sui generis, the founder of pragmatism; 2. Peirce as not sui generis - the influences in his work and the conversations of the philosophers in which he participated; 3. Peirce as a philosopher of science, and hence, not compatible with projects in the human sciences and the humanities; 4. Peirce as he was appropriated into the human sciences and the humanities, in the form of semiology and following that, into Derrida's critique of semiology; 5. Peirce retrieved by neo-pragmatism as a weapon against 'French theory'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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