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Chapter 12 - Edgework
from Part III - Which Machinery Supports the Drive for Knowledge?
- By Perry Zurn, Dale Zhou, David M. Lydon-Staley, Dani S. Bassett
Edited by Irene Cogliati Dezza, University College London, Eric Schulz, Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen, Charley M. Wu, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
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The Drive for Knowledge

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19 May 2022

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02 June 2022, pp 259-278
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Most theories of curiosity emphasize the acquisition of information. Yet, recent advances from philosophy and cognitive science suggest that it may be time to complement the acquisitional theory of curiosity with a connectional theory of curiosity. This alternative perspective focuses on the actions of the knower in seeking relations among informational units, laying down lines of intersection, and thereby building a scaffold or network of knowledge. Intuitively, curiosity becomes edgework. In this chapter, we dwell on the notion of edgework, wrestle with its relation to prior accounts, and exercise its unique features to craft alternative reasons for curiosity’s value to humanity. In doing so, we find that the notion of edgework offers a fresh, flexible, and explanatory account of curiosity. More broadly, it uncovers new opportunities to use the lens of science to examine, probe, and interrogate this important dimension of the human experience.

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