The aim of the paper is to distinguish and explain some imprecise expressions indicated by prof. Anna Jedynak. Moreover the paper is focused on the fundamental disagreement between the author and his critic, which is the meaning of the term "incommensurability".
The study poses the question about the consequences of incommensurability for the problem of linguistic relativity. One can reasonably argue that if two languages are incommensurable, contradiction cannot exist between the judgments formulated inside them. Therefore it is possible to compile linguistic worldviews of two incommensurable languages into one coherent cognitive perspective. The latter view is called into question; hence the article examines the problem of relation between linguistically determined incommensurable worldviews. In order to analyze the issue there are distinguished three dimensions of incommensurability: linguistic incommensurability, incommensurability of experience and ontological incommensurability. Conclusion excludes possibility of compilation of two ontologically incommensurable into one coherent cognitive perspective.
The paper aims to justify the need for a philosophical reflection concerning the concept of cognitive artifact, as it is used in situated cognition, and, first of all, for conceptualize and defining them. I tentatively call this area “the epistemology of cognitive artifacts”. The paper forms the problem of reification of the cognitive artifacts and the problem of amplification in describing the cognitive impact of the artifacts. Additionally, the article discusses the issue of nonrepresentational artifacts and singles out a new class of artifacts which I call metacognitive artifacts.
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Tekst uzasadnia potrzebę filozoficznej refleksji dotyczącej używanego w nurcie poznania usytuowanego pojęcia artefaktu poznawczego. Artykuł wytycza obszar projektowanej epistemologii artefaktów poznawczych oraz diagnozuje problemy związane z powszechnie stosowanymi sposobami konceptualizacji artefaktów poznawczych. Analiza założeń milcząco przyjmowanych w badaniach nad artefaktami pozwala zdiagnozować problem reifikacji artefaktów poznawczych oraz problemy związane ze stosowaniem modelu wzmocnienia przy opisie relacji między narzędziem a użytkownikiem. Ponadto, tekst przedstawia problem artefaktów niereprezentujących oraz wyróżnia, dotychczas niedostrzeganą, klasę artefaktów metapoznawczych.
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