WikiSilo: A Self-organizing, Crowd Sourcing System for Interdisciplinary Science

David Pierre Leibovitz	Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Robert L. West	Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mike Belanger	Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

WikiSilo is a tool for theorizing across interdisciplinary fields such as Cognitive Science using a specific vocabulary and structure. It is designed to show if a particular cognitive theory is complete and coherent at multiple levels of discourse, and commensurable with and relevant to a wider domain of cognition. WikiSilo is also a minimalist theory and methodology about effectively doing science, and is therefore a form of epistemizing. WikiSilo theory provides for a disciplined exploration of explanatory space via an axiomatic hierarchy of epistemizing and ontologizing postulates. The WikiSilo tool, via a software version control system, supports the long term goal of working toward coherent and unified theories. More generally, WikiSilo facilitates self-organization leading to academic silos with well-defined conceptual frameworks that are vertically related as compared to poorly related ad-hoc academic fiefdoms.

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