集体性知识的本质

The Essence of Collective Knowledge

集体性知识的本质已经成为日渐繁盛的社会认识论研究的一个基本问题。文章对集体性知识的归因、性质以及实用主义的思考分别进行了分析。文章指出,尽管集体性知识的研究依然处于争论之中,但集体性知识研究开启了认识论研究的全新方向,特别是有关集体可以作为知识主体、集体可以具有知识甚至信念的思想,进一步丰富了认识论的研究内容,因而具有重要的认识意义和理论价值。

The essence of collective knowledge has become an essential question in the blooming Social Epistemology. This article gives an analysis to the attribution, character and the pragmatic consideration of collective knowledge. Although the study of collective knowledge is in great controversy now, the question has opened a new direction of epistemology. The idea that the group can be the subject of knowledge and have knowledge or belief,in particular, has enriched the research contents of epistemology, therefore it has very great epistemological significance and theoretical value.