creators_name: Heylighen, Francis
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-06-15
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:48
metadata_visibility: show
title: Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge
ispublished: pub
subjects: evol-psy
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: evolutionary epistemology, selectors, science, selection criteria, knowledge, science, Donald T. Campbell
abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: Evolution and Cognition
volume: 3
number: 1
pagerange: 63-67
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Heylighen, Francis  (1997) Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/313/1/knowledgeselectors.html