Subject: Political Science / Public Policy / Communication Policy

Subject: Political Science / Public Policy / Communication Policy

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Espionage, Statecraft, and the Theory of Reporting

|9780822944737|A Philosophical Essay on Intelligence Management|Everything we know about what goes on in the world comes to us through reports, information transmitted through human communication. We rely on reports, which can take any number of forms, to convey useful information, and we derive knowledge from that information. It's no surprise, then, that reporting has many philosophical dimensions. Because it plays such a major role in knowledge management, as Nicholas Rescher argues, the epistemology of reporting not only deserves our attention but also sheds important light on how we understand the theory of knowledge. This book offers a clear, accessible introduction…

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