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Scientific innovation as eco-epistemic warfare: the creative role of on-line manipulative abduction

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  • Lorenzo Magnani

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Humans continuously delegate and distribute cognitive functions to the environment to lessen their limits. They build models, representations, and other various mediating structures, that are thought to be good to think. The case of scientific innovation is particularly important: the main aim of this paper is to revise and criticize the concept of scientific innovation, reframing it in what I will call an eco-epistemic perspective, taking advantage of recent results coming from the area of distributed cognition (common coding) and abductive cognition (manipulative). Taking advantage of this eco-cognitive perspective the article outlines how innovative scientific modeling activity can be better described taking advantage of the concept of “epistemic warfare”, which sees scientific enterprise as a complicated struggle for rational knowledge in which it is crucial to distinguish epistemic (for example scientific models) from non epistemic (for example fictions, falsities, propaganda) weapons. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Lorenzo Magnani, 2013. "Scientific innovation as eco-epistemic warfare: the creative role of on-line manipulative abduction," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 12(1), pages 49-59, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:minsoc:v:12:y:2013:i:1:p:49-59
    DOI: 10.1007/s11299-013-0118-4
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