Cybernetic Epistemology

Q1 Arts and Humanities
Juho Lindholm
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Mainstream analytic epistemology conceives knowledge as representation: as true justified (un-Gettiered) belief. Such representation is conceived as independent of practice, its justification to consist in experience, and experience as mere observation. Such notion of experience is too narrow to take the epistemic value of experimentation into account. But science is emphatically experimental. On the other hand, John Dewey defined experience as organism–environment interaction. Such interaction is bidirectional and hence experimental by nature. It involves feedback. Cybernetics studies feedback systems. Hence, cybernetic epistemology is a consequence of Dewey’s definition. Cybernetic epistemology maintains that knowledge is practice, that is, an (approximately and relatively) invariant pattern of potential organism–environment interaction, rather than something independent of practice. In this article, I will make a case for cybernetic epistemology. It seems to dispense with the representational notion of knowledge and to provide an original justification for process ontology.
控制论认识论
主流分析认识论认为知识是表征:是真正合理的(非分层的)信仰。这种表现被认为是独立于实践的,它的理由在于经验,而经验仅仅是观察。这种经验的概念过于狭隘,无法将实验的认识价值考虑在内。但科学是实验性的。另一方面,约翰·杜威将经验定义为有机体与环境的相互作用。这种相互作用是双向的,因此本质上是实验性的。它涉及到反馈。控制论研究反馈系统。因此,控制论认识论是杜威定义的结果。控制论认识论认为知识是实践,即潜在的有机体-环境相互作用的(近似且相对)不变模式,而不是独立于实践的东西。在这篇文章中,我将为控制论认识论做一个论证。它似乎摒弃了知识的代表性概念,并为过程本体论提供了一个原始的理由。
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10
审稿时长
30 weeks
期刊介绍: Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum sees its mission in offering publishing opportunities for Baltic and non-Baltic scholars in the field of the history and philosophy of natural and social sciences (including legal studies) to promote and further international cooperation between scholars of different countries in this field.
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