Workshop on Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology

SES 00-00573 - Michael E.戈尔曼（弗吉尼亚大学）“科学技术认知研究研讨会”一个规模不大但不断壮大的学者团体正在对发现者和发明者进行详细的认知研究。该奖项的目的是将这些从业者的核心群体-与对这一领域感兴趣的学生和年轻学者沿着-聚集在一起，调查“最新技术水平”，并开始勾画未来研究的议程。这些组织包括科学社会研究协会、认知科学协会、科学史协会、技术史协会和科学哲学协会。没有人属于所有这些团体，也没有人参加所有相关的社会会议。因此，只有一小部分对科学和技术的精细认知研究感兴趣的人会参加这些会议。此外，这种学科的多样性，虽然智力上令人兴奋，地方学生和年轻学者特别沉重的负担。 本次研讨会旨在证明对这一群体特别有益。以前没有任何一次会议或研讨会以本次研讨会的方式讨论“科学和技术的认知研究”。 例如，1990年，美国国家科学基金会资助的明尼苏达大学科学认知模型研讨会几乎完全集中在科学认知的理论解释上。该奖项支持的研讨会将建立在早期研讨会的成功基础上，但将更多地关注科学发现而不是假设检验，并将新技术的发明作为主要重点。讲习班将强调有必要将现有的研究结果应用于实际认知的详细个案研究。虽然早期的研讨会集中在哲学的影响，本次研讨会的一个目标是有助于制定一个多学科的议程，符合NSF的跨领域计划的重点。

SES 00-00573 - Michael E. Gorman (University of Virginia)"Workshop on Cognitive Studies of Science & Technology"A small but growing community of scholars is conducting detailed cognitive studies of discoverers and inventors. The purpose of this award is to bring a core group of these practitioners together -- along with students and younger scholars who are showing interest in this area - to survey the "state of the art" and to begin to sketch an agenda for future research.The scholars who will participate in this Workshop identify themselves with a wide variety of disciplines, and individually belong to a wide range of formal societies; these include the Society for Social Studies of Science, the Cognitive Science Society, the History of Science Society, the Society for History of Technology, and the Philosophy of Science Association. No one belongs to all of these groups, and none attends all of the relevant society meetings. As a result, only a small portion of those interested in fine-grained cognitive studies of science and technology will meet and interact any one of these meetings. In addition, this disciplinary diversity, although intellectually exciting, places an especially heavy burden on students and young scholars. The Workshop is designed to prove especially beneficial to this precise group.No previous Conference or Workshop has addressed "Cognitive Studies of Science and Techmology" in precisely the manner that this Workshop will. For example, a 1990 NSF-funded workshop at the University of Minnesota on cognitive models of science focused almost entirely on theoretical explanations of scientific cognition. The Workshop supported by this award will build on the success of this early Workshop but will focus more on scientific discovery than hypothesis testing and will include the invention of new technologies as a major focus. The Workshop will emphasize the need to apply existing findings to detailed case studies of actual cognition. While the earlier Workshop focused on implications for philosophy, one goal of this Workshop is to contribute to developing a multidisciplinary agenda, consistent with the NSF's emphasis on crosscutting programs.