First-Person Science is Third Person and Vice Versa
Chris Fields
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Abstract
Open peer commentary on the article “Excavating Belief About Past Experience: Experiential Dynamics of the Reflective Act” by Urban Kordeš & Ema Demšar. Upshot: Science requires memory, but memory is constructive. Kordeš and Demšar appeal to historical constraints on memory to address this paradox. Yet history, even an imagined history, involves a third-person perspective. I suggest that a third-person perspective is required by any science, even a “first-person” science.
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Fields C. (2018) First-person science is third person and vice versa. Constructivist Foundations 13(2): 240–241. http://constructivist.info/13/2/240
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