Non-Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017)

This is a definition of Non-Epistemic Community that states "A community that does not have a collective intentionality to know the world."

This definition of Non-Epistemic Community was formulated by Nicholas Overgaard in 2017.1

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Modification	Community	Date Suggested	Summary	Verdict	Verdict Rationale	Date Assessed
Sciento-2017-0014	Scientonomy	19 May 2017	Provided that the definition of community is accepted, accept new definitions of epistemic community and non-epistemic community as sub-types of community.	Open

Question Answered

Non-Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is non-epistemic community? How should it be defined? I.e. how can it be differentiated from epistemic community?

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Description

This definition is meant to highlight the key difference between epistemic and non-epistemic communities. The former are said to have a collective intentionality to know the world, while the latter lack such an intentionality. A typical example of a non-epistemic community, according to Overgaard, is an orchestra that has a collective intentionality to play music but lack the intentionality of knowing the world.1p. 59 Another example of a non-epistemic community, according to Overgaard, is a political party. While a political party might have some accepted theories, such as ideas concerning, for instance, effective governance, "a political party would be considered a non-epistemic community because it lacks a collective intentionality to know the world".1p. 59

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