Plato and the Internet (Postmodern Encounters)

by Kieron O'Hara

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We live in a knowledge economy. Competition now straddles the world, and competitive advantage will be produced from now on by knowledge and creativity. Acquiring and managing knowledge better has become a political imperative. And yet - what is knowledge? The arguments have changed little since Plato. Arguing against sceptics who claim we have no knowledge at all, philosophers have focused on knowledge of facts, on how to distinguish true knowledge from mere belief. But the knowledge economy is less interested in knowledge about facts as in know-how - the Internet provides anyone with a PC and a phone...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781840463460
  • Publish Date 4 February 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 2 June 2021
  • Publish Country GB
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