Epistemic Community Can be Part of Non-Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017)

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This is an answer to the question Epistemic Community as Part of Non-Epistemic Community that states "A non-epistemic community can consist of epistemic communities."

Epistemic Community Can be Part 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-2017-0015 Scientonomy 19 May 2017 Provided that the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic communities is accepted, accept that a non-epistemic community can consist of epistemic communities. Open The modification can only become accepted once modifications Sciento-2017-0013 and Sciento-2017-0014 all become accepted.

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Epistemic Community Can be Part of Non-Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017) is an attempt to answer the following question: Can an epistemic community be the sub-community of a non-epistemic community?

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Description

According to Overgaard, communities that do not have a collective intentionality to know the world can still have sub-communities that do have such an intentionality. Overgaard illustrates this with the example of Google, a company that can be considered a non-epistemic community as its collective intentionality is that to make profit. Yet, as an innovative company, Google has many sub-communities which do have a collective intentionality to know the world, such as "a research and development team trying to better know Internet technologies, or a marketing team trying to better know how to reach consumers".1p. 59 By definition, these sub-communities are epistemic. Thus, argues Overgaard, it is possible for an epistemic community to be the sub-community of a non-epistemic community.

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References

  1. a b  Overgaard, Nicholas. (2017) A Taxonomy for the Social Agents of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 1, 55-62. Retrieved from https://www.scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/28234.