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	Epistemic community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy of science and systems science the process of forming a self-maintaining epistemic community is sometimes called a mindset.
		Some feminist scholars and ethicists are of the opinion that an epistemic community follows logos and is thus effectively male.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epistemic_community (303 words)

	Community
		Community is a set of people (or agent s in a more abstract sense) with some shared element.
		Community could be defined as a group of people who share gifts which they provide to all.
		In community, interaction is informal and spontaneous rather than procedurally formalized (such as in bureaucracy), an end in itself rather than goal-oriented (such as in interest group or advocacy group).
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Community.html (460 words)

	JWSR - Volume II - Article
		Epistemic communities that are dynamic and growing during the policy formation process within the domestic structure of the world leader are those that are able to push outward into the international arena.
		Epistemic communities have four distinguishing characteristics which can be used as measurements for the British case: 1) shared normative value base and set of principled beliefs, 2) shared set of causal beliefs based on analysis of observed practices, 3) shared notion of evaluating and validating knowledge, and 4) common policy enterprises.
		The acid test of an epistemic community is whether or not its views, which have circulated and come to dominance within an expert environment, come to the attention of policymakers and are then adopted as government policies by the states of the community.
	jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol2/v2_n1.php (10417 words)

	Intentional community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most common form of governance in intentional communities is democratic (64%), with decisions made by some form of consensus decision-making or voting.
		Of the remainder, 9% have a hierarchical or authoritarian structure, 11% are a combination of democratic and hierarchical structure, and 16% don't specify.
		Many communities which were initially led by an individual or small group have changed in recent years to a more democratic form of governance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intentional_community (432 words)

	JWSR - Volume III, Number 2, Spring 1997
		The "epistemic community" approach describes the roles played by networks of experts in international decision-making: how they agree upon and articulate causal linkages within complex issue spaces; how they frame issues and define salient discourse; how they define and limit potential solutions or outcomes; and how they define state interests within the issue space.
		The consideration of epistemic communities is relevant to the consideration of a global mode of regulation in that these communities are defined by issue space and by technical expertise rather than by national political dynamics.
		Epistemic communities would appear to be closest to an ideological form of power network that can interact with all three of the other types of power networks.
	jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol3/v3n2a2.htm (3068 words)

	Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Community Foundation of the Lowcountry A growing, community-supported, nonprofit endowment of resources for the betterment of the Hilton Head, SC community.
		Community of Celebration A mixed community of men, women and children called together to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ by living in community and offering ourselves in service to the Church and to the world.
		Community in the Workplace Describes an anthology of essays about community building in the workplace, written by a virtual community of community-builders.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Community.html (1341 words)

	Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Community is a set of people (or agents in a more abstract sense) with some shared element.
		A virtual community is a group of people exchanging messages or other types of information and is a community in this sense.
		In Wales and Scotland, communities are the lowest tier of local government, equivalent to civil parishes in England.
	www.freedownloadsoft.com /info/community.html (488 words)

	User talk:Netesq - Meta
		When your "communities" actually escape the domination and control of those who own infrastructure, or have the trust of those who do (sysops), you may be able to credibly say you "led" two "communities".
		My views on communities, be they "real," "virtual," or "epistemic," are my own; they do not reflect the bias of academia or the bias of any of the professions that might claim me as a member.
		In the final analysis, the death of a community does not resemble the death of an organism because the members of a community are all individuals.
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Netesq (1948 words)

	Martin Kusch - Knowledge by Agreement: the Programme of Communitarian Epistemology - Reviewed by David Henderson, ...
		In either case, the epistemic footing of (any piece of) testimony is understood in terms of epistemic processes that are fundamentally non-testimonial in characterâ”and all this is understood at the level of the individual epistemic agent.
		Justification and knowledge (and thus truth and meaning) are bestowed in a kind of community process that is at least of the same genus as the performatives by which a couple comes to be married at the performative pronouncement that they are.
		Suppose the earlier community agreed that the motion of heavenly things is circular and unchanging and that anything farther away from the earth than the moon is a heavenly thing.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1163 (2506 words)

	Transgovernmentalism and the Globa Governance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two major representatives of the study of expert knowledge are Peter Haas and his study of epistemic communities, and Karen Litfin and her research on the discursive approach.
		Thus the appearance of TGNs should not be thought to be occasional, but customary so long as epistemic communications occur in the global scale and put pressure for governmental actors living in the reach of such communications to absorb or internalize certain expert knowledge for their specialties.
		Although the direct communications among the sub-units of governments were not as frequent as the studies of transgovernmental relations so far have supposed, the ‘ecologist’ sub-units within the tripolar world of the U.S.-EU-Japanese governments had promoted the policies to prevent the global warming to the same direction until the COP3.
	www.isanet.org /noarchive/nagata.html (9538 words)

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		To reiterate this within the framework of the epistemic community approach, the epistemic community of which Haas speaks are concerned with overturning the dominant paradigm within any given regime.
		Second, if a more specific definition of epistemic communities is applied which only examines the influence of a single epistemic community, it does not help to explain the difference in outcomes for the issue of ozone depletion and climate change.
		That is, if epistemic communities are subject to the forces of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces, it is useful to examine cooperation and social change in the context of the power of ideas.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~ecostar/papers/ISA1996.htm (5112 words)

	A.C. Grayling - Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, Univ. of London
		Communal possession of language plays the major role in enabling community members to apportion epistemic tasks, to process and record the results, and to put them to use.
		This is a formulation from which discussions of the ampliative character of induction often begin, and it serves as a statement of the dilemma posed by the joint fact of our pressing need for techniques of ampliative inference and their imperfection relative to deductive standards.
		This is not a question about how, in the light of epistemic finitude, individuals come to have and use a putatively inclusive explanatory theory of the world; rather, it is a question of what work that theory – that conceptual scheme – does.
	www.acgrayling.com /scepticism/Scepticismjust4.html (1494 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Epistemic community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Public management as interagency cooperation: testing epistemic community theory at the domestic level.
		From a doctor's to a judge's gaze: epistemic communities and the history of disability rights policy in the workplace.
		Standpoint epistemology without the "standpoint"?: an examination of epistemic privilege and epistemic authority.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Epistemic+community (210 words)

	Free / Open Source Research Community (Online Papers)
		The communities of free software development are a particularly interesting organisational model because their structure, based on co-operation and solidarity and opposing centralisation, promote the participation of programmers and users all over the world.
		We found that FLOSS development teams vary widely in their communications centralization, from projects completely centered on one developer to projects that are highly decentralized and exhibit a distributed pattern of conversation between developers and active users.
		Implications in terms of electronically-mediated communications and networked interdependencies are discussed in the final sections where a new light is cast on the concept of structuring as a by-product of localized adjustments.
	opensource.mit.edu /online_papers.php?&orderby=authors (13545 words)

	Co-evolution in Epistemic Networks: Reconstructing Social Complex Systems - A Summary Presentation
		Studying such knowledge communities offers theoretical challenges, with the perspective of naturalizing further social science, as well as practical challenges, with potential applications enabling agents to know the dynamics of the system they are participating in.
		In this respect, we argue that several significant aspects of the structure of a knowledge community are primarily produced by the co-evolution between agents and concepts.
		Using the framework of a socio-semantic network, or "epistemic network," we then micro-found several stylized facts regarding the empirically observed structure: we exhibit processes at the level of agents accounting for the emergence of epistemic community structure.
	repositories.cdlib.org /imbs/socdyn/wp/wp3 (353 words)

	Handelshøjskolens Bibliotek & IT-Service - Institutional Repository (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The relevant context is the social community where it resides, i.e.
		In the mutual engagement in a common enterprise, epistemic communities develop, maintain and nurture the codes, tools and theories that provide the basis of their practice.
		Conversely, knowledge transfer between different epistemic communities, whether desired or unintended, is often cumbersome and fraught with difficulties.
	ir.lib.cbs.dk /paper/ISBN/x656504276 (248 words)

	An epistemic community and its intellectual networks: The field of higher education in Mexico
		The study is framed by the concept of epistemic community, defined as a network of professionals with recognized expertise and competence and with an authoritative claim to policy-relevant knowledge within a domain or issue area.
		Empirically, the dissertation is grounded on interviews and questionnaires conducted with members involved or related to the higher education epistemic community in Mexico, as well as on the analysis of diverse materials and secondary sources.
		My analysis shows that members of the epistemic community played a significant role in the consolidation of the field and in the reform and modernization of Mexican higher education.
	escholarship.bc.edu /dissertations/AAI3161713 (370 words)

	20th WCP: Belief Worlds and Epistemic Possibilities
		Against the assumption that all epistemic possibility statements are analyzable in terms of the speaker's "relevant community," I contend that the truth value of some statements is a function of the speaker's epistemic states alone.
		Their analysis is uniform in that they make two assumptions: first that some community is relevant in every case, and second that every statement is analyzable in terms of knowledge.
		Relative to this equally ignorant community, she makes the stronger statement: "It's possible that John has cancer." In the second case, however, Jane expresses her epistemic position relative to a community whose sum knowledge exceeds her own because it includes the doctor.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/TKno/TKnoKoch.htm (2521 words)

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		Note that Haas defines epistemic communities as networks of _professionals_ not to be elitist, but on the premise that their professional standing is the source of their authority in policymaking.
		Haas wanted a phrase that would describe not "the scientific community" but a certain kind of knowledge community, and this is what he came up with [or perhaps borrowed from someone else].
		"Global epistemic community" seems generally to be used as a plural concept ('the global epistemic community of climate scientists'), but in the essay I mentioned previously, at http://www.casayego.com/webconf/papers/2001bugs/2001bugs.htm, the author seems to equate "the global Internet community" with "the global epistemic community," citing another paper.
	www.ais.org /~jrh/netizens/digest/Digest_1-528.txt (2525 words)

	II Journal: Epistemic Communities and the Commodification of Expertise
		An "epistemic community" has been defined by Peter Haas (1992) as a network of professionals with recognized expertise and competence in a particular domain and an authoritative claim to policy-relevant knowledge within that domain or issue-area.
		Starting from this, somewhat broadened, definition of epistemic communities, we would like to provoke the seminar to consider the range of ways in which epistemic communities carry out their work in relation to politics, ideology, and the world around them.
		Jason Finkle points out that, between the 1960s and 1990s, the "population community" grew in number, diversity, and scientific knowledge, and in so doing became less rather than more an epistemic community as described by Haas.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol9no1/finkle.htm (473 words)

	Epistemological Problems of Testimony
		I intend “proper or correct” in the DR to accord with norms expressed in whichever epistemic term is pivotal to the analysis of knowledge, with ‘justified’, ‘warranted’, or ‘entitled’ as leading candidates.
		But an epistemic closure condition is a simple and highly credible condition on knowledge, since the implication of knowledge, as the primary factive, is truth and the entailment involved, which is recognized by the agent, guarantees the transmission of truth.
		She regards any rule like the DR as “an epistemic charter for the gullible and undiscriminating.”(1994 126) Fricker claims that hearers can obtain independent evidence to confirm the belief that a speaker is trustworthy.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/testimony-episprob (18349 words)

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		Because of this eventuality, the secretariat of the convention (UNEP: UN environmental program) and the epistemic community has classified hazardous waste according to their toxicity.
		The epistemic community was dominated by few government with strong atmospheric science/ climatologic research capacities and space lobbies: the USA, UK, Sweden, Canada, Japan, Germany and Australia.
		It is difficult for the epistemic community to radicalise its policies (like export ban) if they have not enough fund and support to implement them.
	www.geocities.com /shabani4u/basel.htm (2327 words)

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		I suspect one of the laws of extended electronic exchange should be "it's always time for a subject change." In the electronic communities of several allegedly author-oriented newsgroup, we have noted that threads almost always start involving: 1.
		> >Note that Haas defines epistemic communities as networks of >_professionals_ not to be elitist, but on the premise that their >professional standing is the source of their authority in >policymaking.
		Contrary to their belief, they do not own and may not use the registry in any way the community feels is detrimental to the community as a whole.
	www.ais.org /~jrh/netizens/digest/Digest_1-529.txt (2907 words)

	Case Study Analysis
		In other words, the author believes that the key to success is the presence of an epistemic community.
		In his article, Haas uses the Mediterranean Action Plan (Med Plan), “a regime for marine pollution control in the Mediterranean Sea” (Haas 377), as a case study to explain why and how the epistemic communities are the reason for the success of the Med Plan.
		In the case study of the Med Plan he looks at individual countries and compares whether the epistemic community has been successful in getting the policies of national governments to converge, as in Algeria and Egypt, or whether it has not, as in France.
	haaland-kramer.net /CSA/CaseStudyAnalysis.htm (222 words)

	Climate Change - Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
		An international green policy-advisory elite or epistemic community, closely tied to a small number of elite academic institutions, is postulated as the active agent behind this experiment and associated institutional and procedural changes.
		An epistemic community is difficult to define and identify.
		The available biographies of 41 participants are used to demonstrate the educational, national and institutional identity of an elite which is taken as representative of a green global policy network or a part of a wider epistemic community of environmentalists and their immediate beneficiaries.
	www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk /z011.htm (16688 words)

	Citebase - A Cognitive Model of an Epistemic Community: Mapping the Dynamics of Shallow Lake Ecosystems
		A Cognitive Model of an Epistemic Community: Mapping the Dynamics of Shallow Lake Ecosystems
		We used fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) to develop a generic shallow lake ecosystem model by augmenting the individual cognitive maps drawn by 8 scientists working in the area of shallow lake ecology.
		Moss, B. (1990) Engineering and biological approaches to the restoration from eutrophication of shallow lakes in which aquatic plant communities are important components.
	citebase.eprints.org /cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:q-bio/0509022 (1636 words)

	Epistemic Communities, Situated Learning and Open Source Software Development (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Abstract: This paper analyses open source software development as an epistemic community.
		Open source software develpoment is a learning process where the involved parties contribute to, and learn from the community.
		It is discovered that theory of epistemic communities does indeed contribute to the understandig of open source software development.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /491678.html (228 words)

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