Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10492132 | Futures | 2005 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper the underlying concern is the problem of knowledge. How do we understand the world, what is 'scientific' knowledge, and to what extent is this knowledge limited by the fact that the world in which we live is complex? The problems associated with the status of our knowledge of the world have been central to philosophy all along. Here I will focus on the way in which the acknowledgement of complexity transforms some of the traditional conceptions of (especially scientific) knowledge. I will also examine the notions of boundaries and limits, arguing that these notions are not problems we have to get out of the way, but that they are inevitable as soon as we start talking of 'knowledge'.
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Authors
Paul Cilliers,