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Lehrveranstaltung im WS 09/10
Prof. Dr. Peter Hanenberg: Culture and Cognition: The Power of Tacit Knowledge

 
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Semester: WS 09/10
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  • Mi, 03.02.2010, 14:00-18:00, Raum 29 / Room 29 (Phil. I, Haus B / Phil. I, Building B)
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Hinweise: The most famous definition of tacit knowledge is not exactly a definition but just a paradoxal sentence by Michael Polanyi: "We know more than we can tell". What is tacit knowledge? Is it something that is not tellable, something that is not at hand or explicit? Tacit knowledge appears in consciousness, but we do not fully understand why. Tacit knowledge is something that we know without notion of this knowledge. Nevertheless we are prepared to act on it. We will try to develop a clearer definition of tacit knowledge and its importance for culture studies in three steps: First we will observe some examples of "gut feelings" that lead us to the power of 'problem solving before or beyond knowing'. Then we will deal briefly with the idea of a geography of thought and with cognitive aspects of tacit knowledge for cultural diversity. We will try to relate Polanyi's ideas on tacit knowledge with Leonard Talmy's "Cognitive Culture System" and to ask how cognitive culture studies could recover such concepts like 'Discourse' in the sense of Michel Foucault, 'paradigm' in the sense of Thomas Kuhn, 'common sense' as Clifford Geertz defines it, or 'Denkstil' and 'Denkkollektiv' in the sense of Ludwik Fleck. Thus we would like to suggest three conclusions: tacit knowledge is based on experience, it is shared (and not just individual) and, thus, imparted through education. These conclusions may allow us finally to discuss challenges for tacit knowledge in media society. Readings: Polanyi, Michael: The Tacit Dimension. Chicago: Univ. Press 2009 (1st ed. 1966), pp. 3-25. Bruce E. Wexler: Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change, Cambridge, Mass., London: Mit Press 2006 (introduction). Talmy, Leonard. Toward a Cognitive Semantics. 2 vols. Paperback edition. Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, 2003 (vol. II, p. 373-415; free online access: http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/talmy/talmyweb/Volume2/chap7.pdf).
 
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