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Bernard Lonergan’s Theory of Functional Specialties Knowing as Process: Lonergan’s Cognitive Theory • NOT simply “taking a look at what’s there” • NOT simply “reporting what I feel about something” • 4-fold Process: – Experience: data of sense / data of consciousness – Understanding: interpreting data of sense / data of consciousness – Judging: the accuracy and adequacy of understandings of data of sense / data of consciousness – Deciding: the spiritual, intellectual, moral, behavioral, affective implications of accurate and adequate judgments Lonergan’s Cognitive Theory Applied to Inquiry • The Notion of Functional Specialties: division of labor in the intellectual life • Discourse “in oratione obliqua” [investigation of past intellectual positions] – – – – Research: corresponds to experience Interpretation: corresponds to understanding History: corresponds to judgment Dialectic: corresponds to decision • Conversion as Transformation of Horizon: – Complementary horizons: perspectives within a single thoughtworld – Genetically related horizons: successive stages of one aspect (discipline/field) of a thoughtworld – Dialectically opposed horizons: negation and rejection of [an]other thoughtworld[s] • Conversion as Applicable to Varying Dimensions of the Human: – Intellectual: from knowing as “taking a look” or “introspection” to critical realism – Moral: from attraction/repulsion to value[s] – Religious: from “closed” (nature / human) to “open” (spiritual / God) thoughtworld • Discourse “in oratione recta” [generation of present/future positions] – – – – Foundations: corresponds to decision Doctrines: corresponds to judgment Systematics: corresponds to understanding Communications: corresponds to experience