- Title
- Applying self-directed anticipative learning to Science I: agency and the interactive exploration of possibility space in ape language research
- Creator
- Farrell, R. P.; Hooker, C. A.
- Relation
- Perspectives on Science Vol. 15, Issue 1, p. 86-123
- Relation
- http://muse.jhu.edu./journals/perspectives_on_science/toc/posc15.1.html
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- The purpose of this paper and its sister paper (Farrell and Hooker,b) is to present, evaluate and elaborate a proposed new model for the process of scientfic development: self-directed anticipative learning (SDAL). The vehicle for its evaluation is a new analysis of a well-known historical episode: the development of ape-language research. In this first paper we outline five prominent features of SDAL that will need to be realized in applying SDAL to science: 1) interactive exploration of possibility space; 2) self-directedness; 3)localization of success and error; 4) Synergistic increase in learning capacity; and 5) continuity of SDAL process across scientfic change. In this paper we examine the first three features of SDAL in relation to the early history of ape-language research. We show that this history is readily explicated as a self-directed, ever-finer, delineation of possibility space that enables the localization of both success and error. Paper II examines the last two features against this history.
- Subject
- self-directed anticipative learning (SDAL); applying SDAL to science
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34868
- Identifier
- uon:3739
- Identifier
- ISSN:1063-6145
- Language
- eng
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