Teleology: A modern approach for knowledge mapping

Abstract

Teleology is the branch of philosophy, claiming that each object has a final purpose for its being. In this article, we show how teleology is used as a modern scientific discipline that provides a channel to achieve different goals. In more detail, it focuses on using teleology in knowledge mapping where it serves as a framework for capturing strategic knowledge. An important part of this in a knowledge map is setting individual objectives. However, without some meaningful context, the different knowledge types are hardly distinguished. Therefore, we introduce ontology for mapping these knowledge types separately, in an academic environment, through assigning folksonomy tags to knowledge nodes. Further, it is discussed that similar approach can be extended to other domains too, only by using appropriate ontology.