Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography

C 2018

Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography

KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva

Basic information

Original name

Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography

Authors

KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Leiden, Boston, Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion : A New Synthesis, p. 348-363, 16 pp. Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 13, 2018

Publisher

Brill

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00104895

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-90-04-38537-5

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004385375_024

Keywords in English

Cognitive historiography; Research methodologies; Methodological standards; Interdisciplinarity; Experiment

Abstract

V originále

A crucial decision lies before the newly emerging field of Cognitive historiography: whether to strive for bridging the gap between the Sciences and Humanities or to settle for using the Sciences to fill in the gaps in the historical evidence. Based on current contributions to the field and the use of experimental testing as a standard method in Cognitive sciences, this text assesses both modes, considers the usefulness of experiments to each and identifies practical steps for its effective implementation. However, cautioning against mutual misunderstandings and methodological blunder in the first mode based on collaboration and integration of the Sciences and Humanities, the text calls for further clarification of the research agenda, stressing the necessary shift to pattern- versus event-oriented research questions on the side of historiography and the shift to novel experimental methodologies on the side of Cognitive sciences. Considering the second mode, the Cognitive-sciences-inspired-historiography mode, clear understanding of statistical inferential methods and clear criteria for evidence usability to avoid haphazard conclusions may prove necessary before attempting to combine scientific knowledge and historical material.

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Citovat

KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva. Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography. In Petersen, A. K.; Gilhus, I. S.; Martin, L. H.; Jensen, J. S.; Soerensen, J. Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion : A New Synthesis. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018, p. 348-363. Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 13. ISBN 978-90-04-38537-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004385375_024.

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KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva. Experimenting with Cognitive Historiography. In Petersen, A. K.; Gilhus, I. S.; Martin, L. H.; Jensen, J. S.; Soerensen, J. \textit{Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion : A New Synthesis}. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018, p.~348-363. Supplements to Method \&{} Theory in the Study of Religion 13. ISBN~978-90-04-38537-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004385375\_{}024.

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