Cultural Psychology a New Relationship with Knowledge

Abstract

How do we know? How is knowledge possible? This question has always been in the foreground of philosophical enquiry. From classical philosophy to modem epistemology, and then to psychology and contemporary cognitive sciences, it has been reformulated in many different ways. However, the same sort of dualistic logic has characterized almost all these approaches, leading to theorizations of knowledge in terms of bipolar oppositions such as: iconic vs. propositional, exogenic vs. endogenic, rational vs. emotive, concrete vs. abstract, and so on.

The Colour of a Chameleon: Perspectives on Concepts of Culture

“…What I am concerned to point out is that people quite justifiably construct their concept of 'culture' in a way that fits in with their theoretical approaches -there is no right or wrong, though there is sometimes the inappropriate and even bizarre. I shall cite a few examples, beginning with one that merits being treated in more detail since it concerns a claim to have originated a new kind of cultural psychology (Fabri & Munari 1990;Fabri, Formenti & Munari 1993). Their 'cultural psychology' appears to be a species of psychological theory of knowledge which I shall not seek to summarize, since I am not sure that I properly understand it.…”

The Complexity of Transdisciplinary Literature Reviews

“…In order to do this, we have once again to think systemically, to think through the complexity of the web we are woven into. What is our relationship to knowledge (Fabbri & Munari, 1990)? To our ideas (Morin, 1991)?…”

The poetry and the prose of science

“…The methodological approach of Operative Epistemology -a research tool and educative strategy as well, developed by Fabbri & Munari since the 1980s [21][22][23] -is of particular interest for exploring from this perspective the process of theorisation. According to the Operative Epistemology, a theory must be seen not only as a set of abstract ideas, more or less connected together, but as a coherent system of conceptualisations, feelings, beliefs, strategies and actions with which a subject can provide an explanation of the world he lives and operates in.…”