Le culture epistemiche. A proposito di status e funzione di un concetto epistemologico

Cultures of Knowledge. On Status and Function of an Epistemological Concept – This article illus-trates the concept of “cultures of knowledge”. This is used in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of culture and of sociology of knowledge to indicate the contextual and the relational character of human knowledge, which is always determined by cultural and social factors. The expression “cultures of knowledge” is related mainly to the processes through which knowledge is developed and justified. This work will be focused primari-ly on the description of the structural characteristics of this notion and of the sources through which this has been developed in the literature. Furthermore, the paper will show that the idea of “cultures of knowledge” produces an intrinsically relational and contextual view of human knowledge.