Dear researchers,
I am excited to announce the launch of a new collaborative research project on the essence of knowledge. I hope to collaborate with a small group of researchers, producing a preprint, which will be uploaded on ResearchGate and, if possible, submitted for publication in an open-access peer-reviewed journal. I would be honored to work and coauthor a paper with PhD holders and professors from various backgrounds. Although I don’t have a PhD and only hold a Master’s degree, this is an intellectual challenge for me to step out of my academic comfort zone and lead a scholarly project.
This project will be entirely asynchronous, allowing for flexibility. Participants are welcome to join regardless of their disciplinary background, as knowledge is a concept that invites diverse perspectives.
Project Description
Objective
The goal of this project is to collaboratively author a research paper that contributes meaningfully to the exploration of knowledge, demonstrating its multifaceted nature from interdisciplinary perspectives, historico-cultural contexts, analyzing it through philosophical insights, and other field-specific aspects.
Participant Criteria
• Must be a PhD holder or professor.
• Willingness to work asynchronously and collaborate effectively with other team members.
Key Information
• Research questions, project structure, and other information will be available at the beginning of the program.
• Contributors will be listed as coauthors in the final preprint.
• Number of participants: 5–7, including myself.
• This is not an institutional or university project but is independently led by me.
Contributors’ Roles
The central role of contributors will be actively contributing to the paper’s development and coauthoring alongside others. Additional tasks may include refining ideas, editing sections, and providing feedback.
Project Coordinator: Amalya Sukiasyan
As the coordinator, I will take the lead in starting and managing the project while also contributing and coauthoring alongside other participants.
Deadline to sign up: 23 December 2024
How to Apply
If you're interested in participating, please contact me on ResearchGate or send an email at [email protected]
I look forward to collaborating with you.
Best regards,
Amalya Sukiasyan
Dear Anu Sasidharan, thank you for your interest in the project. I am so glad to collaborate with you.
Anu Sasidharan, I couldn't reply to your message because the platform only allows responses to users who follow me. Currently, the sign-up period is still ongoing. The research questions, program structure, and other details will be available at the beginning of the program. We will start the project on January 9, working as a team using collaborative platforms such as Slack, Google Drive, and email. Together, we will coauthor a research paper on the essence of knowledge from interdisciplinary perspectives. Could you please send me your email address, as it is necessary for updating you about program developments and for collaboration?
Ali Abdalftah Fadul, thank you for your interest in the project. I'll be glad to collaborate with you.
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Nonphilosophical writings on knowledge often focus on contingent features of knowledge or on knowledge restricted to certain domains, rather than on essential features of knowledge in general. So you might want to establish some parameters for your project to include or exclude certain approaches and avoid certain errors that have already been discussed in the very copious extant literature. This might be a place to start:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
Thank you for your valuable remarks. Since this initiative is based on interdisciplinary research, the essence of knowledge can be analyzed from both philosophical and non-philosophical perspectives. Knowledge, like any other intellectual, psycho-ethical, and socio-cultural dimension, should be defined by its characteristics, features, and functions. For example, a few research questions exploring the essence of knowledge and incorporating cross-disciplinary approaches might include:
• What are the philosophical functions of knowledge (e.g., moral principles, self-knowledge as a path to universal understanding)?
• What are the artistic characteristics of knowledge (e.g., humanities, creative writing, and fiction)? So, the essence of knowledge is defined in different ways depending on field-specific contexts.
Your use of the word "essence" confused me. I take the essence of something to be the property or set of properties in virtue of which something is the kind of thing that it is, i.e. its sine qua non. But you regard it relativistically. So to use your artistic example, what you would be seeking is not the essence of knowledge as such, but the essence of a certain field-specific type of knowledge, i.e. a subset of what is considered to be knowledge. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's useful to know exactly what you are after.
The characteristics of knowledge are analyzed in different ways, depending on the context, and disciplinary principles. Since my project is based on interdisciplinary research, the essence of knowledge is defined through field-specific perspectives and interpretations. To define the essence of knowledge, it is necessary to delve into the multidimensional depths of sciences, arts, philosophical and theological teachings, etc.
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