COGNITIVE APPROACH TO THE IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE STUDY

COGNITIVE APPROACH TO THE IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE STUDY

Author:  O.A. Azarova, I.A. Kudryashov

Affiliation:  Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Southern Federal University

Abstract: 

Implicit knowledge is one of the most discussing and contradictive concepts in the sphere of knowledge management in discursive processes. This kind of concept is used quite vague in current investigations and denotes the kind of information which is difficult for verbalizing. It results in exploring the initial meaning of the phenomenon (formulated in M. Polaniy’s philosophy), its cognitive nature. In private, there appears the point of view according to which the subject of investigation is necessary to be studied in terms of the cognitive perspective to connect the implicit knowledge and empirically investigated cognitive phenomena. Some of the most important types of implicit knowledge presented by M. Polaniy are analyzed with the aim of following the cognitive mechanisms of implicit knowing and achieving comprehensive understanding of knowledge. The typology of knowledge in the aspect of its explicit / implicit representation in the discursive process corresponds with the conceptual modelling the reality as all the concepts are based upon the implicit knowledge, but not all the implicit knowledge turns out to be actual for linguistic concept reflecting.

Keywords:  cognitive science, implicit knowledge, knowledge management in the discursive process, concept

References: 

Kolb B., Whishaw J. Foundations of Human Neuropsychology. NY.: Worth Publishers, 2009.
Polanyi M. Personal Knowlrdge – Towards a Post-Classical Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Pages:  30-33