How will the concepts of "judgement" and "decision" relate and which other
concept should be considered in this regard?
Lubomir Popov
At 12:40 PM 8/17/2003 +0000, Terence Love wrote:
>Dear Ken and Erik,
>
>Good point about importance of judgement in design. It brings in the
>question of how humans actually make judgements.
>
>To chip in an alternative two-penneth, it appears to me Cognitive Science
>and Social Sciences are limited in how they can do this becasue much of
>the process is highly dependent on feelings, emotional processes, and the
>feelings and changes to sense of self that result from emotion responses
>to external and internal imagogenic perceptions. As far as I can see,
>judgement processes cannot be adequately explained in terms of the
>properties of objects or situations, human values, or of cognitive
>constructs (the calculator problem in both cases). They can provide some
>correlatory information helpful for exploratory insights but fuller
>explanation and causal theory requires looking at the internal
>physiological processes by which humans undertake judgement.
>
>I feel it is now necessary to be very cautious of the work of earlier
>theorists including early classical authors. These are radical times. The
>new means of looking at human issues in a psycho-neuro-physiological way
>were not available in earlier times and to a large extent, the work of
>earlier theorists can be seen as building of inherently compromised
>theory to try to make up for the emprical weakness.
>Epistemologically, the problem is simple. The externalist theories or
>theories based on properties of social situations and objects (or human
>values) simply cannot adeqautely explain human processes and behaviours
>becasue in almost all cases these factors are not directly and dependably
>related to how humans function.
>
>Phronesis depends on judgement, and the label of 'wisdom' is usually used
>to refer to the skill of a person who is able regularly to make good
>judgements. Making theory about the relationship between the three also
>depends on understanding the neuro-physiological processes that underpin
>humans' judgement. This also offers good insights into making coherent and
>reliable radical theories about both phronesis and wisdom.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Terry
>
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