THE MIND PROJECT
Intersections of Philosophy, Human Science,
& Humanities
in the Journal Mind, 1876-1920
An Interdisciplinary
Seminar Series & Symposium
@ Virginia Tech
ï Prof. Ryan Tweney (Dept. of Psychology, Bowling Green
State University) ìExperimental
Ethnography and the Epistemology of Historical Cognitive Replication.î April
22, 2005. Hosted by the VT Dept.
of STS. Co-sponsored by the VT
Dept of Psychology.
In recent years, a number of investigators have conducted replications of historically significant scientific experiments. This research has enlarged our knowledge of the cognitive underpinnings of scientific thinking, and raises many questions about the role of "experimental ethnography" in the understanding of science. The talk will briefly review some of this research, centering upon my own work on the replication of Michael Faraday's (1791-1867) research on the colors of gold. Such experimental ethnographies rely upon an integration of cognitive anthropology and cognitive psychology, with implications for the cognitive scientific understanding of epistemological systems.
ï Prof. Valerie Hardcastle
(Dept of STS, Virginia Tech), Fall 2005, topic TBA.