The Western Devaluation of Knowledge is an exploration of the
causes and effects of Western cultural changes that have evolved
during the past half millennium of industrialization to diminish
the value of knowledge as process. Western culture has developed a
conceptualization and valuation of knowledge that reverses the
traditional knowledge continuum that connects data (information) to
understanding. As a result, we displace the subjective and human
features of knowledge with automated systems that conforms with
information and devalues the knowledge process. This book explains
this change as a result of the industrial influences that began to
gain strength in the 15th century and continued on that path
through today s economic and cultural globalization. The author
shows that science and technology, while bringing good on many
fronts have also: .Weakened or replaced traditional sources of
cultural authority, .Advanced a materialistic outlook; .Hastened
the broad spread of capitalist values, principles, and strategies;
.Fostered a pervasive dependence on technological innovation; and
.Nurtured an extreme rationality. Osburn shows that while any one
of the above cultural currently would have been sufficient to cause
deep and generalized change, their confluence was the deciding
inspiration for a different epistemology, one that has altered the
generally accepted meaning and valuation of knowledge.
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