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Tacit Knowledge, Working Life and Scientific Method

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Knowledge, Skill and Artificial Intelligence

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What is “Tacit knowledge”? What role does it play in working life? What implications does it hold for understanding, for example, implications of expert systems for working life? What do philosophers of science have to learn from working life studies?

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Janik, A. (1988). Tacit Knowledge, Working Life and Scientific Method. In: Göranzon, B., Josefson, I. (eds) Knowledge, Skill and Artificial Intelligence. The Springer Series on Foundations and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1632-5_6

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