Extended Knowledge Project and Informatics
Informatics Forum
25.3.2013
Extended Knowledge Project:
extended-knowledge.ppls.ed.ac.uk
S. Orestis Palermos
S.O.Palermos@ed.ac.uk
sites.google.com/site/sopalermos
The Extended Knowledge Project explores the ramifications of the extended and
distributed cognition research programmes within epistemology.
Potential technological impact: Design of reliable and user-friendly human-machine
programs whose output will amount to knowledge.
Properties of knowledge-oriented distributed cognitive systems: Integration,
Reliability, Dispositional Nature, Differentiated Structure, Common Knowledge.
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