Remembering (Short-Term) Memory: Oscillations of an Epistemic Thing

Feest, Uljana

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“…Rheinberger himself stands for a strand within the philosophy and history of experiment that has sought to analyze the dynamics of knowledge production, focusing his attention on the material and cognitive resources with which scientists navigate what is not known. (see also Feest, 2012;Feest & Steinle, 2016).…”

Section: Two Objectionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The experimenters' regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation

Feest

2016

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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Section: Two Objectionsmentioning

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The experimenters' regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation

Feest

2016

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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“…This account of how classification proceeds in science is highly idealized; if natural kinds are ultimately the goal of science, investigations into the nature of scientific practice reveal that classificatory practices and kind discovery in science do not follow this logical trajectory (e.g., Andersen, 2010;Bloch-Mullins, 2020a, 2020b, Chang, 2004Hacking, 1992b;Feest & Steinle, 2012;Kendig, 2016aKendig, , 2016bNersessian, 2008). Numerous philosophers of science and scientists have noted that exploratory and hypothesis-driven research often proceed in science without a firm grasp of what the objects of inquiry are nor how the kinds of things under study fit into some broader taxonomy of kinds (e.g., Anderson, 2015;Brigandt, 2003Brigandt, , 2020Chang, 2004Chang, , 2012Colaço, 2020;Feest, 2005Feest, , 2010Feest, , 2011Feest, , 2012Feest, , 2017Feest & Steinle, 2012;Griffiths, 1997Griffiths, , 2004Haueis & Slaby, 2017;Kendig, 2016aKendig, , 2016bMuszynski & Malaterre 2020;Rheinberger, 1997;Sullivan, 2009, 2017b, Sullivan, 2010Sullivan, 2019;Sullivan, 2020).…”

Section: Scientific Practice Coordinated Pluralism and Coordinated Kmentioning

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Classification, kinds, taxonomic stability and conceptual change

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Sullivan

2021

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Scientists represent their world, grouping and organizing phenomena into classes by means of concepts. Philosophers of science have historically been interested in the nature of these concepts, the criteria that inform their application and the nature of the kinds that the concepts individuate. They also have sought to understand whether and how different systems of classification are related and more recently, how investigative practices shape conceptual development and change. Our aim in this paper is to provide a critical overview of some of the key developments in this philosophical literature and identify some interesting issues it raises about the prospects of the so-called "special sciences", including psychiatry, psychology, and the mind-brain sciences more generally, to discover natural kinds. 2. Principles of classification: a brief historical overview 2.1. Conventionalism Human beings impose conceptual order on their world. In the most basic terms, we are born into a world of language users; learning the meanings of words requires the abilities to detect objects having certain properties in the world, to recognize similarities and differences among those objects with respect to those properties and to understand that things that others identify using the same name share certain properties in common. We learn these basic rules of classification and assign things that share properties in common to groups having unique names. Common examples of groups include stars, mammals, trees, beliefs and feelings. We learn that stars have the basic properties of being luminous and visible in the night sky and that beliefs are things that humans and some non-human animals have that can be assigned a truth value. Sometimes we place unlike things into the same group-we misclassify

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“…Material recovered from the site is added to artifacts that were originally recovered, reinforcing the notion that the collection is a dynamic entity. Understanding this small, specific case of a collection like Klasies can help us unpack the broader cases for epistemic life histories of other objects, like these collections (Deetz ; Feest ; Schickore ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In many ways, this “cultural cachet” that we see in relation to the Klasies collection could be described as the historical agreement that the collection has a shared point of identity and institutional or disciplinary memory (Ashmore and Kapp ; Feest ). The Klasies collection becomes the touchstone for interpretation and measurement.…”

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Life Histories and Dynamic Objects: The Klasies River Mouth Collection

Pyne¹

2014

Curator The Museum Journal

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Klasies River Mouth, a Middle Stone Age archaeological site along the southern coast of South Africa, has long held an iconic status within the field of archaeology, for many reasons. In the four decades since its original excavation, the site's artifact collection has demonstrated dynamic characteristics as the artifacts are analyzed, interpreted, and reinterpreted. The site and its collection became a standard (both scientifically and culturally) for comparing other Middle Stone Age sites. The collection, however, does more than just provide a comparative sample for archaeologists. The collection is a way to trace identity and shifting methodological and theoretical paradigms for Pleistocene archaeology. The life history of Klasies River Mouth pairs the physical materiality of the collection with its subsequent cultural (and disciplinary) cachet.As a historian, I have an active interest in the life histories of artifact collections. In my work, I find that understanding how different audiences consider a particular collection can highlight values, and how those values-scientific, methodological, ethical, and so on-change over time. On a theoretical level, a collection can serve as a temporal placeholder for different epistemologies, paradigms, methods, and manner of explanations. On a less esoteric level, the history of a collection can show particular cultural cachets as a dynamic, vibrant object, long after the collection is first curated. In the late twentieth-century history of archaeology, the Klasies River Mouth is an example of an entity with an interesting and rich life history providing us with insights about the original excavation and curating processes, but also about the changing paradigms of archaeological thought and theory.In 1967-1968, archaeological excavations began at a cave along the southern coast of South Africa-a site that dated to the Middle Stone Age; a Pleistocene site ranging from 280,000 to 25,000-50,000 years ago (Deacon 2001). Investigating archaeologists were motivated in their research to explore questions about the origins of modern humans; broadly, researchers were interested in any archaeological deposits that might provide insight about the nature of biological and cultural evolution in South Africa. Other synchronic archaeological sites in the coastal area indicated that any materials recovered from the area would prove to be most significant toward these research questions (Singer and Wymer 1982).A fantastic collection of archaeological material-in the form of stone tools (lithics); fauna; shellfish; and botanical remains-was successfully recovered from that original field season. The materials were quickly analyzed; the archaeological interpretations published (although the interpretations shifted significantly over decades);

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Remembering (Short-Term) Memory: Oscillations of an Epistemic Thing

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

The experimenters' regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation

The experimenters' regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation

Classification, kinds, taxonomic stability and conceptual change

Life Histories and Dynamic Objects: The Klasies River Mouth Collection

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