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Ronald Giere PhD Cornell
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My research grows out of the conviction that philosophers of science should be providing a general theoretical framework for the study of science and technology as human and cultural activities. I also believe that the philosophical study of science requires a sympathetic understanding of one or more scientific fields. In recent work I have drawn on examples from physics (astrophysics, classical mechanics, and nuclear physics), geology, biology (genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary theory), and the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology and neuroscience). I regard some of these sciences as also providing resources for developing models of scientific activity itself. My current research focuses on scientific cognition as a form of distributed cognition and on the perspectival nature of scientific knowledge. I am also engaged in debates with historians, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists of science regarding the roles of these disciplines in the overall study of science and technology as cultural phenomena. |
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Selected Publications "The Role of Computation in Scientific Cognition." Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 15 (2003), 195-202. "Computation and Agency in Scientific Cognition." Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31-August 2, 2003. "Distributed Cognition: Where the Cognitive
and the Social Merge." Social Studies of Science, 33 (April
2003), 301-310. "Scientific Cognition as Distributed Cognition." In The Cognitive Basis of Science, ed. Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stitch and Michael Siegal, 285-299, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Science without Laws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Understanding Scientific Reasoning. 4th ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1997. Origins of Logical Empiricism. Co-editor with A. W. Richardson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Cognitive Models of Science. Editor. University of Minnesota Press, 1992. Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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