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explicit knowledge. For Collins, secrets and other forms of “relational tacit
 
knowledge” are tacit, but only in relation to specific circumstances and re-
 
lationships. Collins treats such relational knowledge as less interesting the-
 
oretically than collective knowledge that is essentially difficult and perhaps
 
impossible to convey through explicit formulations. In this paper I focus on
 
relational tacit knowledge, despite its marginality in Collins’s typology, be-
 
cause it draws attention to conceptual ambiguities in the relationship between
 
tacit and explicit knowledge. More importantly, such ambiguities come into
 
play as strategic resources in historical labor conflicts and in efforts to secure
 
and preserve professional autonomy. Instead of treating tacit knowledge as a
 
substantive possession of individuals and groups, I suggest that an empirical
 
sociological alternative is to investigate pragmatic and polemical uses of the
 
tacit/explicit distinction in particular circumstances of action and conflict.
 
 
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Lynch2013b
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Michael Lynch
Title At the margins of tacit knowledge
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Journal Philosophia Scientiæ
Volume 17
Number 3
Pages 55–73
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Michael Polanyi and H.M. Collins contrast tacit knowledge with explicit knowledge. For Collins, secrets and other forms of “relational tacit knowledge” are tacit, but only in relation to specific circumstances and relationships. Collins treats such relational knowledge as less interesting theoretically than collective knowledge that is essentially difficult and perhaps impossible to convey through explicit formulations. In this paper I focus on relational tacit knowledge, despite its marginality in Collins’s typology, because it draws attention to conceptual ambiguities in the relationship between tacit and explicit knowledge. More importantly, such ambiguities come into play as strategic resources in historical labor conflicts and in efforts to secure and preserve professional autonomy. Instead of treating tacit knowledge as a substantive possession of individuals and groups, I suggest that an empirical sociological alternative is to investigate pragmatic and polemical uses of the tacit/explicit distinction in particular circumstances of action and conflict.

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