Evolutionary Epistemology Bibliography

Campbell, Donald T.; Heyes, Cecilia; Callebaut, Werner

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-3967-7_20

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“…The resulting formal model is derived as a general one that can be applied to the theme of agriculture as a particular form of epistemic learning system. The inner dynamics of the IIE-learning system are characterized by evolutionary learning equilibriums [10] across the continuum of knowledge, space, and time. The particular agricultural application of the generalized epistemic methodology of unity of knowledge is centered on the objective of evaluation of food security as the wellbeing criterion function.…”

Section: Objectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study

Choudhury¹,

Abbas²

2017

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The theme of agriculture as system though it is commonly understood is an innovative area of research and erudition. It involves both a technical meaning of system and cybernetic as these arise in respect of their epistemological meaning of unity of knowledge in highly complementary orders; as well as some of the wellbeing implications are studied in methodological way within the substantive context of system and cybernetic. The result then is a scientific, technical, and social development of the theme of agriculture as system for the common human good. Within this meaningful connotation, the economics of agriculture is invoked. This area is further extended to the broader field of ecology, resource, and environment inter-causal linkages within and between them. The treatment of agriculture as system and cybernetic study then leads into methodological and mathematical formalism that can be formulated as a model of evaluation of wellbeing subject to simulacra of multidimensional variable interrelationship. With data searched by the researchers in further studies in this area of agriculture system, the wellbeing simulation subject to circular causation between the multidimensional variables can be empirically evaluated using sophisticated statistical programs. Resulting policy and inter-system results can be analyzed to derive socioeconomic inferences. A plethora of further technical studies with the methodological features of system and cybernetic study can be derived.

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Section: Objectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study

Choudhury¹,

Abbas²

2017

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“…In the philosophy of science, nonrandom, cumulative ''conceptual change'' in theories and knowledge is referred to as evolutionary epistemology. Although it is agnostic in its account of the change, evolutionary epistemology usually offers selectionist accounts based on variation, selection, and retention of scientific practices and their products (Campbell, 1974;Popper, 1972;Toulmin, 1972), some of them sympathetic to behavior analysis (e.g., D. L. Hull, 1988Hull, , 2001; see D. L. Hull, Langeman, & Glenn, 2001). Not only is science an evolutionary process in this sense, but so too is technology (see Basalla, 1988;Hughes, 2011;Petroski, 1992), including behavioral technology.…”

Section: Founding As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

A study in the founding of applied behavior analysis through its publications

2013

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This article reports a study of the founding of applied behavior analysis through its publications. Our methods included hand searches of sources (e.g., journals, reference lists), search terms (i.e., early, applied, behavioral, research, literature), inclusion criteria (e.g., the field's applied dimension), and (d) challenges to their face and content validity. Our results were 36 articles published between 1959 and 1967 that we organized into 4 groups: 12 in 3 programs of research and 24 others. Our discussion addresses (a) limitations in our method (e.g., the completeness of our search), (b) challenges to the validity of our methods and results (e.g., convergent validity), and (c) priority claims about the field's founding. We conclude that the claims are irresolvable because identification of the founding publications depends significantly on methods and because the field's founding was an evolutionary process. We close with suggestions for future research.

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“…Donald Campbell [54,57] coined the term evolutionary epistemology for the understanding he and Popper had that knowledge was something that was cognitively constructed by living entities from their experiences with the world through fallible processes of trial and error learning [58]. Campbell called the process "blind variation and selective retention", and Popper "conjecture and refutation" [59] or "tentative solutions and error elimination" [49].…”

Section: Social Networking Tools For Knowledge Based Action Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%