Loops and recursions in cognitive science : cross-roads between methodology and epistemology

Klauser, Florian (avtor), Kordeš, Urban (avtor)

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.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: observer effect, human kinds, recursion, looping effects, philosophy of science
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: PEF - Pedagoška fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2018
• Št. strani: Str. 524-532
• Številčenje: Vol. 16, iss. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-105951
• UDK: 165.194
• ISSN pri članku: 1334-4676
• DOI: 10.7906/indecs.16.4.1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12264265

Avtorske pravice

Podatek o licenci CC BY 4.0 je naveden na spletni strani revije (https://indecs.eu/). (Datum opombe: 5. 9. 2025)

• Datum objave v RUL: 04.01.2019

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Interdisciplinary description of complex systems
• Skrajšan naslov: Interdiscip. descr. complex syst.
• Založnik: Hrvatsko interdisciplinarno društvo = Croatian Interdisciplinary Society
• ISSN: 1334-4676
• COBISS.SI-ID: 6480201

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: kognitivna znanost, človeška vrsta, rekurzije, zankasti učinki