I recently finished reading Thomas Kuhn’s “Structures of Scientific Revolutions” while I had read shorter works on this theme I had never gotten around to reading the more thorough piece.
In the work, Kuhn does the intellectual spadework for the sociological analysis of science – the idea, contra Karl Popper, that scientists are deeply concerned with …
David Eaves, in a recent blog post, talked about the importance of information filtration for political decision makers. He was speaking mainly about how increased access to real-time information could have unforseen consequences, both negative and positive on the cognitive capacity of President Obama – whom is viewed as the “online President.”
David mentions that critical …
As a cognitive scientist, I am deeply concerned with the study of insight and problem solving – particularly of ill-defined problems, that is problems where the nature of the solution or even the problem itself is unclear or debatable. Most problems seen outside the confines of a class-room are ill-defined problems and so those things …
When one hears the phrase “Knowledge Management” in marketing material, it is usually put alongside some sort of content management system like Drupal or spin-offs like CiviCRM or OpenAtrium. These applications excel at providing flexible and scalable solutions for content management. 37Signals, by making their products bare-bones simple, gives access to solutions otherwise unreachable to …
I’ve decided to create a new blog rather than post these entries in my personal blog – http://www.jeremyvernon.com/ for a number of reasons – the audiences are different, the purpose is different and I hope to expand the authorship to include a group larger than just me.
What’s the purpose of OrgCog?
OrgCog will serve as a …