Epistemska skupnost

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Epistemska skupnost označuje skupino ljudi (znanstvenikov), ki bodisi sprejemajo eno različico razlage bodisi sprejemajo eno različico validiranja razlage. V filozofiji znanosti in znanosti sistemov (systems science, Systemwissenschaft) se za postopek formiranja samostojnih epistemskih skupnosti včasih uporablja termin mentaliteta. (V polju politike, bi ji po analogiji ustrezal izraz frakcija.) Tisto, kar zagotavlja in omogoča kohezijo znanstvenega diskurza ter posledično združuje člane epistemske skupnosti, je po Foucaultu mathesis, (tj. zavezujoča in po standardnih, racionalnih pravilih strukturirana vednost oz. episteme).

In international anthropology and studies of global governance, epistemic communities are transnational networks of knowledge-based experts who define for decision-makers what the problems they face are, and what they should do about them. Most researchers carefully distinguish between epistemic forms of community and "real" or "bodily" community.

As this view suggests, it is also difficult to draw the line between these modern ideas and more ancient ones: Joseph Campbell's concept of myth from cultural anthropology, Carl Jung's concept of archetype in psychology. Some consider forming an epistemic community a deep human need, and ultimately a mythical or even religious obligation. Among these very notably are E. O. Wilson and Ellen Dissanayake, an American historian of aesthetics, who famously argued that almost all of our broadly shared conceptual metaphors centre on one basic idea of safety, that of "home".

From this view, an epistemic community may be seen as a group of people who do not have any specific history together, but search for a common idea of home, e.g. as if forming an intentional community.



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