cross-roads between methodology and epistemology
Florian Klauser (Author), Urban Kordeš (Author)

Abstract

This article addresses the need for cognitive science to loop back and examine its roots and presuppositions, pointing out the three recursive issues: 1.) The observer effect or how observing a phenomenon affects the phenomenon that is being observed, an issue that has been acknowledged by natural science, which cognitive science attempts to emulate, and empirical phenomenology, but not cognitive science itself; 2.) Human kinds or how our research affects us, the researchers, and society (people’s self-understandings), an issue which forms a loop with the observer effect – observation thus changing the observed, the observer, as well as itself, and 3.) The dangers of over-eager extrapolation or how complexity is lost during shifts in explanatory level, issues pertaining to using findings from studies of one explanatory level (e.g. experiments with rats) to inform a different explanatory level (issues within human society). Finally, the article presents a fourth recursive loop which presents a potential solution to the above: a self-correcting mechanism that allows science to recursively correct its mistakes and improve on its own work.

Keywords

kognitivna znanost;človeška vrsta;rekurzije;zankasti učinki;

Data

Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UL PEF - Faculty of Education
Publisher: Zagreb : Znanost.org society
UDC: 165.194
COBISS: 12264265 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1334-4676
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Secondary language: English
Secondary keywords: epistemology;epistemologija;
File type: application/pdf
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: str. 524-532
Volume: ǂVol. ǂ16
Issue: ǂissue ǂ4
Chronology: 2018
DOI: 10.7906/indecs.16.4.1
ID: 11000342
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