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TOP-DoWN AND BOTTOM-UP INFLUENCES ON OBSERVATION : EVIDENCE FROM COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Brewer, William F. Loschky, Lester C. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | The hypothesis that theories might influence observation was proposed in the important early work of Hanson (1958) and Kuhn (1962). It has been brought to a new focus by the interchanges between Fodor (1984, 1988) and Churchland (1979, 1988). Fodor has argued that perception is not cognitively penetrable, while Churchland has argued for a strong form of theory-Iadenness. This issue has led to very heated debate in the philosophy of science because many scholars have felt that if observation is theory-laden there can be no neutral observation data, and this leads to epistemological relativism. We wish to criticize two assumptions that have been made in this debate. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.k-state.edu/psych/vcl/documents/Brewer_Loschky_2005_Top-down%20and%20bottom-up%20influences%20on%20observation.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
