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Other than perhaps Wellman, most researchers carefully distinguish between epistemic forms of community and "real" or "bodily" community which consists of people sharing risk, especially bodily risk. Some feminist scholars and ethicists are of the opinion that epistemic community follows logos and is thus effectively male.

As this view suggests, it is also difficult to draw the line between these modern ideas and more ancient ones: Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell ( March 26, 1904 October 31, 1987) is best known for his work in the fields of mythology and comparative religion. The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949) is one of his best-known books: it discusses the monomyth cycle of the hero's journey,'s concept of mythMythology For the computer game, see Myth (computer game). A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures, who preserve and cherish the wisdom of their elders through oral tra from cultural anthropologyCultural anthropology also called social anthropology or socio-cultural anthropology, is one of four commonly recognized fields of anthropology, the holistic study of humanity. It reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an, Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung ( July 26, 1875 June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. At university, he was a student of Krafft-Ebing. For a time, Jung was Freud's heir-apparent in the psychoanalytic school.'s concept of archetypeArchetype is defined as the first original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated. The term is often used in literature, architecture, and the arts to refer to something that go in psychologyPsychology is the study of mind, thought, and behaviour. It is largely concerned with humans, although the behaviour and thought of animals is also studied; either as a subject in its own right (see animal cognition), or more controversially, as a way of. Some consider forming an epistemic community a deep human need, and ultimately a mythical or even religious obligation. Among these very notably are E. O. Wilson and Ellen Dissanayake , an American historian of aesthetics, who famously argued that almost all of our broadly shared conceptual metaphorConceptual metaphor In cognitive linguistics metaphor is defined as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain, e. one person's life experience versus another's. A conceptual domain is any coherent organization of experiences centre on one basic idea of safety, that of "home".

From this view, an epistemic community may be viewed as a group of people who do not have any specific history together, but search for a common idea of home, e.g. as if forming an intentional community.

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