The Objectivization of Cognition and Intellectual Giftedness: the case of V.I. Vernadsky |
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| Authors: | Larisa Shavinina |
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| Institution: | Str. Tretya‐2‐3, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia , (after September 1996) |
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| Abstract: | Traditionally psychologists study various characteristics and traits of giftedness (i.e. its external manifestations). However, new perspectives on intellectual giftedness arise from the study of its inner mechanisms, which make it possible to understand the psychological basis of giftedness. The objectivization of cognition can be viewed as one such mechanism. This occurs when the cognition of an individual goes beyond the limits of the subjective space into the “superpersonal world”, beyond the world of everyday interests, where the global problems of civilization, human beings, natural existence, and science are dominant, and where human thinking is concentrated on the analysis of the objective events of reality. This phenomenon is seen in the work of Jean Piaget, Albert Einstein, R.B. Woodward, and especially the Russian scientist V.I. Vernadsky. |
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