@Meaningness Thank you, Dr Chapman, for your essay on how to "upgrade your cargo cult." I share your admiration for Lave and Wenger; but have you read Polanyi's TACIT KNOWLEDGE (which significantly predates them)? Also, I suspect you will like this:http://bit.ly/2Z7zYNK
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Thanks, yes, Polanyi is also an influence! My mother gave me a copy of that book in about 1985 I think... thank you also for the video. I enjoyed it. Perhaps
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My own exposure to TACIT KNOWLEDGE came from Feyerabend, who gave me a copy of the book in about 1983 (along with his own personal copy of Lakatos' PROOFS AND REFUTATIONS, which remains one of my greatest treasures.) I assume you must know Feyerabend? What an extraordinary guy.
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Wow!! You are fortunate indeed!
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I was, am, and have always been keenly conscious of my good fortune, I assure you, in getting to know Feyerabend well enough to argue with him almost constantly (often in German) for four memorable years. I will never forget wandering the Berkeley hills in his eccentric company.
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One of my greatest regrets, though, is that I never got to meet Lakatos. Feyerabend missed him acutely, and never tired of telling stories about him -- stories in which Lakatos invariably triumphed, with almost insolent ease, over naive advocates of "the scientific method."
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These stories, by the way, were both delightful and chastening, since I myself began my acquaintance with Feyerabend as just such a naif. But one couldn't remain naive for long in his company, and I certainly didn't. I think he enjoyed my bewilderment as I became less ignorant.
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I would love to read memoires of those stories. Have you thought about writing them down or recording them?
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I suppose I probably should write them down, yes. It's a considerable literary challenge, though, relating them so that the full boisterous ebullience of their originator shines through the resulting prose. Feyerabend was Wodehovian, like a real-life Uncle Fred (except Austrian.)
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