Seventeenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Fundamental and contemporary cognition with a multi-faceted subject, complex knowledge objects, and multi-level knowledge is the authors’ challenge to develop, model, describe and explain the cognition system with systemic quality such as epistemological attitude. The theoretical and methodological foundation is formed by the approach of holistic constructivism and the three-level methodology, philosophical, general scientific and specific scientific, in modelling complex systems. From a philosophical perspective defining the concept of epistemological attitude embraces three aspects. The first aspect is the quality of the cognition system, such as systemic quality. The second aspect is a mechanism of cognition that links elements of the cognition system, the main categories of cognition like subject, object, and knowledge, and develops relationships between them. The third aspect is a dynamic system and content models. The construct of the epistemological attitude and the cognition system proposes a new theoretical and methodological approach to model any of the cognition system’s elements and their relations. General scientific and specific scientific methodologies potentiate developing the epistemological attitude dynamic system and content models and their research methods. Those can be used to model and analyse various social constructs of cognitive-related objects, ascertain their meanings and epistemological and socio-psychological importance, and make predictions about cognition in society, education, and science.