The oddities of social life—and our efforts to cooperate and coordinate—may turn on our assumptions about the knowledge we share.

How have the unsaid understandings between us shaped our world – society, history, culture? In his new book, the Harvard psychologist digs for answers.

Common sense might not be so common after all, new research has found. What one person might consider common sense might be very different to someone else, a new study in the journal Proceedings of ...

Xiaohui Wu of Wanhuida Intellectual Property reports on a ruling by the Supreme People’s Court of China that emphasises that the determination of common knowledge in the assessment of inventiveness ...

IN 1776 THOMAS PAINE, a traitorous Englishman living in the American colonies, published a seditious 47-page pamphlet. Called “Common Sense”, it became a best-seller. It argued that the colonies ...

Jacqueline Warner and Marcus Caulfield of FB Rice explain the significance of common general knowledge (CGK) in the patentability of inventions in Australia and the evidentiary processes that are ...