title: Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge
creator: Heylighen, Francis
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Epistemology
subject: Philosophy of Science
description: It is argued that the acceptance of knowledge in a community depends on several, approximately independent selection "criteria". The objective criteria are distinctiveness, invariance and controllability, the subjective ones are individual utility, coherence, simplicity and novelty, and the intersubjective ones are publicity, expressivity, formality, collective utility, conformity and authority. Science demarcates itself from other forms of knowledge by explicitly controlling for the objective criteria.
date: 1997
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/313/1/knowledgeselectors.html
identifier:   Heylighen, Francis  (1997) Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/313/