Process of rationality and reason
Enlightenment - Period in 18th century when scientific/philosophical thinking made leaps and bounds
Secularisation
Reason rather than Metaphysics
Belief in a unified scientific method (Scientism)
Positivism
What we do as artists and designers isn't valued as research but we have to tick boxes to suggest that we have a scientific approach to our research.
As creatives we are quite interested in the metaphysical but we need to be aware of the fact that we are uncomfortably in the academic system.
C.P.Snow
- Scientist who wrote the book called two cultures and the scientific revolution
- The arts and the sciences were two totally separate cultures
Positivism
- Research should always lead to positive definite noble outcomes
- If you do an experiment it will work
- Facts with a capital F
- Separation of fact from value (value freedom)
- Objectivity
- Measurement rather than argument
- The facts speak for themselves
- Causation
- Separation and control of variables
- Rigorous methodological values
Approaches to research
- Empiricism
Research done through setting up an experiment. For example use some software to edit work and then comment on the result.
- Quantitative Research
You think about that can lead to data and facts.
- Qualitative Research
Talking to tutors and friends and other relevant people.
- Subjectivism
Active Research
Method - A way of proceeding about something in a systematic or logical manner.
Methodology - The science of method, employed in a particular activity
The Hermeneutic Circle
- Developed by Heidegger
- Interpretation is a process designed to clarify an experience and assign meaning to it
- This is aided by the hermeneutic circle which involves looking at different perspectives on events and relating individual components
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