[Xmca-l] Re: Ignorance as a driver in science

[Andy Blunden]

Laure,
I have lots of questions, but they are all "how to" not "what is" questions.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Laure Kloetzer wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> As part of an introduction course on psychology here in France, I plan to
> work with my students partly on Stuart Firestein's book on the value of
> Ignorance to drive scientific research. I would like to ask you a related
> question. Would you accept to share with the community here your answers to
> the following question:
>
> Which are the unsolved psychological questions on which you would dream to
> get an answer in the next ten years ?
>
> I plan to ask the same question to the COGDEV online community (cognition
> and development).
>
> The goal would be (a) to show the students that there are a lot of things
> that we don't know yet, (b) that this "ignorance" is exciting, and (c) to
> compare how different researchers / fields frame the field of ignorance,
> (d) to relate these current psychological questions to our life and world.
> I guess my perspective is to wonder how we may open alternatives to an
> accumulative model of science, which prevents the students from engaging
> truly in exploration, as they believe they don't know the basics (which is
> also true. They also need to understand the basics, but not to be crushed
> under them).
>
> What do you think of this ? What would your unsolved psychological
> questions be ?
> Thanks for your help,
> Best,
> LK
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