Article ID: CBB305738052

“Strange Trajectories”: Naive Physics, Epistemology and History of Science (2018)

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Crapanzano, Francesco (Author)


Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science
Issue: 5
Pages: 49-65


Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: First of a Series: Methods and Cognitive Modelling in the History and Philosophy of Science & Education
Language: English

In the 1980s naive physics almost suddenly became a field of research for physicists interested in teaching and experimental psychologists. Such research, however, was limited to accurately recording the bizarre Aristotelian responses of “layman” struggling with simple physics issues. Another research on this topic is that one of phenomenological origin: starting from the studies of the psychologist of perception Paolo Bozzi (since 1958) naive physics had entered the laboratory, and he was the first to find that the physical knowledge of the adult individuals were “Aristotelian”. Bozzi took advantage of these results in order to hypothesize a substantial diversity and independence of the sensory system with respect to the cognitive-rational one. Other interesting perspectives were considered by Piaget, who in the 1980s, confirming the spontaneous Aristotelism of children, provided a still prolific epistemological direction of such investigations: finding an explanatory mechanism that projects on the level of science construction that one of individual cognitive development.

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Authors & Contributors
Giacomoni, Paola
Schinckus, Christophe
Leston Buell
Lenzi, Massimiliano
Franco D'Intino
Haglund, Jesper
Concepts
Epistemology
Senses and sensation; perception
Experimental psychology
Psychology
Cognition
Physics
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
20th century
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
United States
Switzerland
Sweden
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Santa Fe Institute
Université de Neuchâtel
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