TY - CHAP
T1 - A Controversy that Never Happened
T2 - Ancient and Modern Concepts of Opinion, Knowledge, and Information-Seeking Behavior
AU - Schulz, Peter J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This chapter traces the distinction between knowledge and opinion from Plato to contemporary social science and shows how ancient thinking is linked to modern conceptualizations of health-related knowledge and its consequences for health behaviors. While Plato was concerned with how a human can distinguish his own knowledge from his opinions, and with the role that certainty plays therein, contemporary social science is concerned with differentiating humans’ subjective and objective knowledge from an observer position. Elements of these distinctions find their way into a model of the complex relationships between health information seeking, subjective health knowledge, health literacy, and empowerment to explain health behavior. The sketch shows that ancient philosophy can help understand and conceptualize contemporary variable-oriented modeling.
AB - This chapter traces the distinction between knowledge and opinion from Plato to contemporary social science and shows how ancient thinking is linked to modern conceptualizations of health-related knowledge and its consequences for health behaviors. While Plato was concerned with how a human can distinguish his own knowledge from his opinions, and with the role that certainty plays therein, contemporary social science is concerned with differentiating humans’ subjective and objective knowledge from an observer position. Elements of these distinctions find their way into a model of the complex relationships between health information seeking, subjective health knowledge, health literacy, and empowerment to explain health behavior. The sketch shows that ancient philosophy can help understand and conceptualize contemporary variable-oriented modeling.
KW - Health literacy and empowerment
KW - Information-seeking behavior
KW - Knowledge–opinion
KW - Subjective–objective knowledge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106022132&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-7131-4_19
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-7131-4_19
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85106022132
T3 - Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning
SP - 199
EP - 208
BT - Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -