The academic concept reconsidered: Plato, Leibniz, Xanadu and the NetAcademy
Type
working paper
Date Issued
1998
Author(s)
Schmid, Beat
;
Schmid-isler, Salome
Abstract
Reasoning about cognition and establishing orders for knowledge has been a noble tradition in philosophy since reflection was born. Congregations of wise men got established at specific places as a means to discuss and teach knowledge. Plato's academia, Aristotle's Lykaion, the monastery schools, the hence arising universities (since the 11th ct.) and, since the Italian Renaissance beginning in the 15th ct., the academies: They all eventually established conventions about pursuing truth and comprehensibleness. The three basic components are valid until today:- - Archiving: Establishing a repository for proved findings, aiming at an encompassing accumulation of knowledge, and the according meta data management. - - Method to evaluate truth: Establishing open, concerted procedures to assess hypotheses and according measures. - - Create a forum: Establishing an academy for the scientific community, i.e. open discussions among experts to discuss (and teach) hypotheses and abduct new knowledge by doing so.<br><br>In the course of history, each of these three components has been continuously improved, by installing libraries, fostering research, enabling new communication means. It would be interesting to investigate more in-depth the contributions which enable the quest of truth. Milestones are, e.g.: Plato ? Leibniz ? the encyclopedists (Diderot/Alembert) ? Nelson's Xanadu resp. the world wide web ? the NetAcademy concept.
Language
English
Keywords
NetAcademy
Online publishing
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
No
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
9468
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