The Socio-epistemic Forces of Scientific Creativity

An ethnographic Approach to Experimental Design in the cognitive Neuroscience of Perception

Authors

  • Nicolás Trujillo Osorio Universidad Diego Portales
  • Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  • Natalia Hirmas Montecinos Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32995/cogency.v15i2.408

Keywords:

Scientific Creativity, Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception, Experimental Design, Ethnography

Abstract

This paper reports on scientific creativity in experimental design in cognitive neuroscience. From an ethnographic approach, we analyze an experimental design in the cognitive neuroscience of perception to describe how standard epistemological criteria for knowledge production take place in concrete scientific spaces and practices. We explain in detail that scientific creativity emerges from a liminal space of epistemic forces that is enabled by heterogeneous social conditions and disciplinary expectations of the scientific community. Finally, by describing this case study we advocate for a more ecological and situated notion of scientific creativity to understand knowledge production processes and practices in the Global South.

Author Biographies

Nicolás Trujillo Osorio, Universidad Diego Portales

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Leiden, Netherlands / University Diego Portales, Chile.

Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

PhD in Management, University of Leicester School of Management, England. Specialized professor in management education with a focus on knowledge production processes, technology, and their effects on organizations and society. Has conducted research projects, studying technical mediation in banking trading desks and innovation management in both startup and established companies. Has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Chile and in countries across the European Community and Latin America. Has served as a thesis committee member for doctoral dissertations both in Chile and abroad.

Natalia Hirmas Montecinos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Ph.D. candidate in Education (School of Education, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). Specializing in Social Studies of Health and Diagnosis in intercultural school contexts. Research focuses on processes of segregation and exclusion in intercultural school settings, as well as Social Studies of Science and Technology in laboratory studies.

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Published

2024-01-13

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023): Summer 2023

Section

Articles

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