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. p. 348-363. Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 13. ISBN 978-90-04-38537-5. doi:10.1163/9789004385375_024. 2018.
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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
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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
Tags rivok, topvydavatel
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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EE2.3.20.0048, research and development projectName: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství
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