The modeling of cognitive activity in the work of v. F. Guidano: a brief journey through the paradigms.

Abstract

The Cognitive model proposed by Vittorio Guidano represents the definitive outcome of a long and cultural exciting research trial, reaching this shape after several years of development, theoretical upgrading, and reliable paradigmatic turns in diverse Science fields and most modern epistemological and hermeneutic inspirations (Guidano e Liotti 1979, 1983; Liotti e Guidano, 1984; Guidano 1981, 1984/1991, 1987/1988, 1990/1991, 1991/1992, 1999, 2001/2007). Since we take evidence how Cognitive Science and Epistemology share the same interest studying the different theories about knowledge –apart from a normative relationship of the second compared with the exploratory domains of the first one (Chiari et al., 1984)– we can easily realize how the Guidano’s work, here considered in its totality, had actively played a role in the debate with the ambitious aim related of “knowing the knowledge”. The following analysis belongs to the wider epistemological research field, ubiquitous in the Guidano’s work as planning guide, here represented as theoretical frame of its epistemological domain.