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A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material CultureConcluding Remarks and Future Prospects

A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture: Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects [This chapter draws together threads from preceding chapters. It sketches some recent developments in the science of salmon lice as an evolving problem-space, and the future trajectory of lice management. Here, I spell out some implications of my case study for future work on cultural transmission, emphasizing the contribution of material culture in the evolution of scientific knowledge. Pressing issues concern the boundaries of cognitive ecologies, and the role of values and affect in shaping them. Distributed cognitive systems are laden with values and affect, but despite attempts to address these subjects, they remain “dark matter” for the field. In conclusion, I deploy Hasok Chang’s notions of progressive coherentism and epistemic iteration to highlight how material culture supports the accumulation of scientific knowledge. By considering the evolution of human knowledge about nature as part of nature, we can better articulate why the discursive practices of scientists are epistemologically productive, without adhering to inadequate models of what experimental science is, how, and why it works.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material CultureConcluding Remarks and Future Prospects

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series
Solberg, Mads
Springer Journals — Jun 16, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-72510-5
Pages
413 –443
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-72511-2_8
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[This chapter draws together threads from preceding chapters. It sketches some recent developments in the science of salmon lice as an evolving problem-space, and the future trajectory of lice management. Here, I spell out some implications of my case study for future work on cultural transmission, emphasizing the contribution of material culture in the evolution of scientific knowledge. Pressing issues concern the boundaries of cognitive ecologies, and the role of values and affect in shaping them. Distributed cognitive systems are laden with values and affect, but despite attempts to address these subjects, they remain “dark matter” for the field. In conclusion, I deploy Hasok Chang’s notions of progressive coherentism and epistemic iteration to highlight how material culture supports the accumulation of scientific knowledge. By considering the evolution of human knowledge about nature as part of nature, we can better articulate why the discursive practices of scientists are epistemologically productive, without adhering to inadequate models of what experimental science is, how, and why it works.]

Published: Jun 16, 2021

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