... advantages are based largely on a firm's knowledge. The following types of hotel knowledge are investigated: (a) the ability to generate customer service; (b) superior company management and organization; and (c) distinctive and effective physical facilities. The first two reflect a market entrant's tacit...

..., inexpensive equipment, and college level chemistry and biology.” Her statement reiterates a common belief: scientific knowledge is cumulative, is easy to acquire and use, and does not depreciate over time. However, academic and practical evidence suggests that such knowledge is difficult to acquire, use...

... the most accessible and reliable way to induce neighbors to work with one another. Ritual aspects of the Friday mosque sermon make it an institution with a substantial capacity for producing common knowledge. As attendees came to believe that others would follow through on sermon messages, Friday mosques...

... to the growing cultural dominance of the professional class as well as the resentment from those left out of it. The chapter first argues that, by the early 2000s, the economy was driven not just by knowledge labor but by the growing number of Americans who were engaged in valuable “creative” work, in Florida's...

... will to predict scientifically as it embraced all of these forms of scientific prediction. The chapter shows that prediction has a much broader conceptual mandate as a central component within established “scientific knowledge” in the Western tradition, as well as part of sense-making in both Western and non...

... as generation of reliable scientific knowledge with a cybernetic notion of prediction as pattern recognition and adaptation. This culture of forecasting was transnational and took shape in the institutional context of late state socialism and East–West knowledge transfer. cybernetics cybernetic sensibility...

... is not so much a failure of science as such, but rather an expected part of a robust process of scientific knowledge production. Ultimately, the failure of prediction as pattern recognition helps us to notice changes in the environment and inform the organism's or machine's adaptation to it. Cold War...

.... Moreover, theodicy would be human's final attempt to figure out God's thoughts. The chapter explains that God forbade the consumption of the tree of knowledge of good and evil so humans could not see through him. Kafka has revealed that knowledge is the only means of making use of the remainder of life...

...This chapter explores the Platonic and Skeptic convictions on knowledge. Aristotle's testimony strongly suggests that Plato was, for virtually his entire career, wedded to the view that knowledge (έπιστήμη) is possible and that it is not of sensible but rather of “separate” intelligible entities...

...This chapter turns to the consequences of neoliberal reforms for the government–family divide. It addresses how a New Zealand family law legislates what qualifies as a cultural family in ways that contradict how Samoan families circulate knowledge. In passing this legislation, members of Parliament...

... of late medieval staged verse engaged with serious subject matter including classical learning, theology, history, or politics. In all cases, the fact of performance to an audience becomes a factor shaping the knowledge content of the texts concerned. The late French Middle Ages, in retaining...

...This chapter focuses on the ways in which poetry is an object of knowledge in ways more specific to itself. It shows the reflexivity of verse, its simultaneous role as both a means to knowledge and an object of knowledge. It begins by considering the properties of poems that poets...

...This concluding chapter reviews the larger questions of periodization and the role of literature in an evolving economy of knowledge. It summarizes the book's overall argument, which is that despite, or rather because of, the rise of prose and its claim to epistemic transparency, verse in late...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of a social ethos of practicality in higher education by the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout the antebellum era, the expansion of scientific and technical knowledge joined with the rise of political populism to lead existing institutions to add...

... and grapples with the rupture in female sexual knowledge production affected by the Second World War and its geopolitical realignments, the reshuffling of the ideological landscapes after 1945, and the rise of new social movements in the 1960s. Finally, the Conclusion argues that the history of women’s...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of forensic medicine and its role in criminal investigations. In the nineteenth century, historian Roger Smith pointed out that “various so-called ‘knowledge professions’ articulated a newly systematic conception of social authority dependent on expertise rather...

..., Socrates did not formulate any general arguments against the possibility of knowledge. Augustine other works the good life Varro Marcus Varro De philosophia Epicurus Epistula ad Menoeceum Pyrrhonian skepticism Sextus Empiricus Objection assent and persuasiveness ataraxia Cato in Cicero De finibus...

...This chapter examines Augustine of Hippo's efforts to vindicate the possibility of knowledge as he sought to discredit Academic skepticism. It first considers the debate that took place between the Academics and the Stoics over the possibility of knowledge, with particular emphasis on the Academics...

...This afterword summarizes the main points of Augustine of Hippo's strategy for vindicating the possibility of knowledge against the Academics' denial of that possibility. Augustine puts forward a number of truths in each of the divisions of philosophy—physics, ethics, and dialectic—that he claims...

... to discredit Academic skepticism as a philosophical practice and vindicate the possibility of knowledge against the Academic denial of that possibility. In doing so, considerable light is shed on Augustine's views on philosophical inquiry and the acquisition of knowledge....