Introduction: On Judgment

Alexander Styhre
Additional contact information
Alexander Styhre: University of Gothenburg

A chapter in Professionals Making Judgments, 2013, pp 1-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As a result of the recent interest in all kinds of knowledge-based and creative forms of human production and innovation — in many cases under labels such as “knowledge management,” “organization learning,” or similar terms — the forms of knowing being thereby mobilized are almost instrumental and devoid of controversy. After centuries of scientific and technological development, the human mind is accustomed to thinking of knowledge as what is silently, almost effortlessly, being developed and translated into commodities and practices. The triumph of the sciences and the unprecedented growth of new advanced technologies tend to overshadow the fact that there is rarely, if ever, any knowledge per se, pure, undisputed, ready-at-hand. In most cases, knowing the world means imposing a certain perspective on it — a perspective that is of necessity a view from somewhere, as already implied in the definition of the term “perspective.” Friedrich Nietzsche spoke of knowledge as always of necessity being perspectival, that is, as already being embedded in certain norms, beliefs, ideologies, interests; in short, not being the pristine and primordial form of knowing that its spokesmen in many cases claim. Michel Foucault’s deeply Nietzschean view of knowledge as regimes of power further stressed that knowledge is always a vector as it has both force and direction.

Keywords: Professional Community; Professional Judgment; Reflective Thinking; Technological Object; Careful Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36957-4_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137369574

DOI: 10.1057/9781137369574_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().