Project OTKA T 037575

Title of the research subject:
Forms of Knowledge – different forms of knowledge, their foundations, shared and different characteristics

Short title:
Forms of Knowledge

Short summary of the research subject:
Our aim is to study the problem of different forms of knowledge, first of all to analyse the modern forms and functions of knowledge. In the course of the research of the subject it will be also the part of our task to answer such fundamental questions as the relationships of knowledge and idea, knowledge and belief, knowledge and supposition, as the everyday and scientific, the non value based and ideological, the personal and impersonal forms of knowledge, the connection of the eternal and “hic et nunc”, objective and subjective, structured and amorphous, universal and particular concerns of knowledge. The main large categories will be the characterisation of scientific knowledge as well as the description of the relationship of scientific and non-scientific knowledge.

Main tasks, expected results:
2002:	Book: Human knowledge. Vince Kiadó (György Kampis)
	Conference on Science and Religion, Budapest – joint organization with others, talks
	Conference on Intentionality, Miskolc– joint organization with others, talks
	Series of 12 articles on the relationships of knowledge, forms of knowledge, and philosophy of science, Élet és Tudomány (György Kampis)
2003:	Conference on Knowledge, Explanation, Understanding, Budapest – organization, talks
	IUHPS/DLMPS Congress on Philosophy of Science, Oviedo – participation of the group, talks
	Data base on the Internet on The Ideological-Theoretical Foundations of the Social Impact of “Alternative Knowledge Systems”
2004:	organization of seminars on:	the special features of different forms of knowledge
						the relationship of evolution and commonplace knowledge
						the relationship of science and parascience
						the relationship of anthropology and biology
2005:	Book:	The Reformation of Knowledge on the Internet (László Ropolyi)
		Physical Determinism (Péter Szegedi)
		Probabilistic Causality (Miklós Rédei - László Szabó - Gábor Szabó)
	Closing konference of the research subject on Forms of Knowledge, Budapest – organization, talks

Keywords:
philosophy of science, forms of knowledge, parascience

Disciplines (by Ortelius):
Humanities – Philosophy – Philosophy of science
Natural sciences – Biological sciences – Biology – Evolutionary biology
Physical sciences – Computer science – Computer systems – Human computer interaction
Physical sciences – Physics – Quantum mechanics
Social sciences – Psychological sciences – Cognitive science

Start of the research:
01.02.2002.

Planned finishing:
31.12.2005.

WEB page:
hps.elte.hu/projects/research.html

Institution:
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest

Financial support by OTKA:
890.000 HUF

Péter Szegedi
Project Leader