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

[Andy Blunden]

If someone is committed to some project which entails destructive 
beliefs, how is it possible to "cut through" those beliefs? When people 
are engaged in projects or actions which cause injury to others, how is 
it possible to "cut through" that shield which makes them indifferent to 
the suffering they cause? In general, how is it possible to change 
deeply embedded cultural beliefs (I could list a number)?
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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Laure Kloetzer wrote:
> I guess How to questions are as interesting, aren't they ?
> Cheers
> LK
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> 2014-04-01 13:37 GMT+02:00 Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net 
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>:
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>     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:
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>         Dear colleagues,
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>         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:
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>         Which are the unsolved psychological questions on which you
>         would dream to
>         get an answer in the next ten years ?
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>         I plan to ask the same question to the COGDEV online community
>         (cognition
>         and development).
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>         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).
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>         What do you think of this ? What would your unsolved psychological
>         questions be ?
>         Thanks for your help,
>         Best,
>         LK
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