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# Knowledge Management and Philosophy

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### Proceedings of the WM 2003 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Philosophy

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### Luzern, April 3rd and 4th, 2003.

Edited by

### Klaus Freyberg *
Hans-Joachim Petsche $
Bertin Klein #

* Munich Reinsurance Company, Munich, Germany
$ Institut für Philosophie der Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
# DFKI, Knowledge Management department, Kaiserslautern, Germany

## Table of Contents

Preface (in German) and Theses (in German and English)
Klaus Freyberg, Bertin Klein, Hans-Joachim Petsche
Papers presented at the workshop

1. Philosophy for IT for Knowledge Management
   Bertin Klein and Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer
2. Perspectival Thinking: A Phenomenological Approach to Knowledge Management
   John D. Haynes
3. Darstellende Untersuchung Philosophischer Probleme mit Ontologien
   Lars Dittmann, Reinhard Schütte, Stephan Zelewski
4. Radical Empiricism, Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing
   Meurig Beynon
5. Epistemic Logic and Knowledge Management
   Marcus Spies
6. Visualizing the Shadows of Information
   Martin Bertram, Sascha Köhn, Thies Bähr, Bertin Klein, and Rolf van Lengen
7. Knowledge Discovery Methods: An Exploration of Different Approaches
   Stefan Smolnik
8. Wissensmanagement - Darstellung und Transfer von Wissen - Potenziale und Grenzen
   Norbert Jastroch
9. Knowledge Building in der Automobilzulieferindustrie: Lernen auf dem Weg von der Grundlage zur Serie (extended Abstract)
   Thomas Börnchen, Burkhard Wördenweber
10. prospektiv - konstruktiv - retrograd: Beurteilung von Methoden des Wissensmanagements aus philosophischer Perspektive
    Ruth Hagengruber, Hanno Schauer
11. Ontologien und Topik - Systematische Aspekte einer Wissensrepräsentation
    Gregor Büchel
12. Knowledge Management from the Ontological Standpoint
    Pierre Grenon
13. Uncertainty, Bayesian Belief Nets, and Knowledge Management
    Ulrich Metschl
14. The Differentia Principle as a Cornerstone of Ontology
    Christophe Roche
15. Knowledge management and philosophy: A position paper (extended Abstract)
    Stephen K. Probert

Papers not presented at the workshop

1. Knowledge acquisition or manifestation of the thought - Cathedral builders and knowledge acquisition method designers
   Francis Rousseaux
2. The World Through Manager's Goals: A Phenomenological Account of the Etymologies of Data and Information
   Fernando M. Ilharco
3. Philosophie und Wissensmanagement in der Schule - Der Beitrag des Fachs "Ethik" für ein Lehrerportal im Internet
   Peter M. Steiner
4. A Philosophical Look at Knowledge Management
   Lewis Hassell
5. Wissensmanagement in Unternehmen
   Marion Schwehr

submitted by Bertin Klein, 16-Oct-2003