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Epistemic Infrastructure

The Epistemic Infrastructure is the theoretical and conceptual foundation of a society, a discipline, a worldview. It consists of the Knowledge Technology necessary to implement Knowledge Systems and the Knowledge Dialogues which drive the evolution of said society, discipline, or worldview. Knowledge Systems are maintained by Knowledge Steward. Healthy epistemic infrastructures are an essential requirement of healthy,[1] democratic Eupsychian Societies.

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According to Tichenor, Merry, Grek, & Bandola-Gill,[2] the epistemic infrastructure includes the material underpinnings of the infrastructure (internet cables, routers, computer terminals, software applications / telescopes, gravitational observatories, rockets / assessment instruments), interlinkages (practices, rituals of verification, and the human communication networks that validate and turn information/data into knowledge, and the governance controls that emerge.

Disciplines, societies, trades, worldviews, etc. all have unique material underpinnings, interlinkages, and governance controls.

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Footnotes

  1. Herzog, Lisa. “The Epistemic Infrastructure of Democracy.” In Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy, edited by Lisa Herzog, 0. Oxford University Press, 2023. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197681718.003.0009.
  2. Tichenor, Marlee, Sally E Merry, Sotiria Grek, and Justyna Bandola-Gill. “Global Public Policy in a Quantified World: Sustainable Development Goals as Epistemic Infrastructures.” Policy and Society 41, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 431–44. doi:10.1093/polsoc/puac015.