can we play science heuristic strategies of science research jies 2013
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Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of
Science Research
João André Duarte
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Citizen Science
Project or Activity in which the public collects and/or analyses data to helpunderstand large scale research questions
Aims
Increase Scientific Knowledge
Gather meaningfull data for large-scale research questions
Increase Scientific literacy and develop problem-solving skills
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Science ResearchUSA’ NSF – PPSR, 1992
Three categories:
Contributory projects
Collaborative projects
Co-created projects
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Science Research
is growingin numbers – “hundreds”impact – published papersmethodology - Citizen Science Toolkit
(CAISE Inquiry Group Report, 2009)
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Web 2.0
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
The detour
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Experience
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Experience
John Dewey (1859 – 1952)
Instrumentalism
Uncertain agencies
Efficient instruments
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Experience
John Dewey (1859 – 1952)
Empirical Naturalism“(…) experience, if scientific inquiry is justified, is no infinitesimally thin layer or foreground of nature, butthat it penetrates into it, reaching down into itsdepths, and in such a way that its grasp is capable ofexpansion”.
(Dewey, 1958)
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Experience
John Dewey (1859 – 1952)
Empirical Naturalism
Is a Humanist Naturalism
Experience as the place ‘where paupers andprinces meet as equals’
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Experience
John Dewey (1859 – 1952)
Pragmatism
Negation modern dualism - separationmind/physical -
Inferences – Practical consequences
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Solving Puzzles
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Solving Puzzles
to predict the structure of proteins withhuman’s puzzle-solving intuitions
http://fold.it
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Abduction
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 – 1914)
“Hypothesis is where we find somevery curious circumstance, whichwould be explained by the suppositionthat it was a case of a certain generalrule, and thereupon adopt thatsupposition.”
(Charles S. Peirce CP 2.624, Deduction, Induction, Hypothesis, 1878)
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Habit of mind
“That which determines us, from given premises, to draw one inference rather than
another, is some habit of mind, whether it be constitutional or acquired. The habit
is good or otherwise, according as it produces true conclusions from true premises
or not; and an inference is regarded as valid or not, without reference to the truth
or falsity of its conclusion specially, but according as the habit which determines it is
such as to produce true conclusions in general or not.”
(Charles S. Peirce, CP 5.367, The fixation of belief, 1877)
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Diagrammatic reasoning
“With the exception of knowledge, in the present instant, of the contents ofconsciousness in that instant (the existence of which knowledge is open to doubt)all our thought and knowledge is by signs. A sign therefore is an object which is inrelation to its object on the one hand and to an interpretant on the other, in such away as to bring the interpretant into a relation to the object, corresponding to itsown relation to the object. I might say 'similar to its own' for a correspondenceconsists in a similarity; but perhaps correspondence is narrower.”
(Peirce, 8.332, 1904, Letter to Lady Welby))
Can we play science? Heuristic Strategies of Science Research
Conclusions
• Citizen Science experience is compatible with Pragmatistheuristics;
• Is Citizen Science close to Dewey’s pedagogy and social project?• Is Peirce’s ‘logic of signs’ becoming more relevant?• Inclusion of this perspective in a wider media philosophy?