Chapter 6: The Philosophical Aspect of Science and Technology Flashcards

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The systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

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Science

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Also refer to the body or system of knowledge derived from such studies.

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Science

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Science originated from?

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philosophy

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Literally “love of wisdom”, is the investigation of the nature of knowledge, existence, and reality.

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Philosophy

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He refined the process of scientific reasoning during the renaissance.

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Francis Bacon

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He emphasized the importance of deductive reasoning

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Aristotle

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He realized that deductive reasoning can be combined with by inductive reasoning.

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Francis Bacon

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the process of obtaining a specific statement of theory from a more generalized model or observation.

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Deductive

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Generates and generalized statement from specific observation.

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Inductive

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3 Different fields of modern science

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Natural Science
Social Science
Formal Science

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field of modern science that investigate natural phenomena; they attempt to give an explanation of how things happen or work based on the careful interpretation of empirical data (physical and biological science).

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Natural Science

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insights on human behavior and societies.

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Social Science

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field of modern science based on the set of rules defined beforehand (priori statements)

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Formal Science

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it is the set of rules defined beforehand

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priori statements

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Who discussed the verificationism or verifiability

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Berlin Circle and Vienna Circle

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Falsification Principle is by?

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Karl Popper

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a discipline is a scientific if it can be supported by empirical evidence, if it cannot be observed, it is regarded as meaningless.

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verificationism or verifiability

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means that a hypothesis or idea can be tested by experimentation. As long as the experiment shows that an idea is not false, it is accepted as the prevailing explanation to the relevant phenomena.

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Falsification Principle

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The study of scientific methods of inquiry, as well the defining of the scope and validity of science.

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Philosophy of Science

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Socrates was condemned and put to death by

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the Athenian society

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He asked questions about moral and psychological issues and challenged existing ideas.

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Socrates

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He focused about the life itself “The unexamined life is not worth living

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Socrates

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Plato found his own school named?

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the famed Academy

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he focused in metaphysics and epistemology

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Plato

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Plato is focused on

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metaphysics and epistemology

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tutor of Alexander the great and systematized logic

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Aristotle

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The purpose of life is to live in virtue. In order to be attuned with nature, people must reject all conventional needs such as power, sex, and wealth. The main figures of cynicism are Antisthenes, Diogenes and Crates of Thebes.

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Cynics

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The main figures of cynicism are

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Antisthenes, Diogenes and Crates of Thebes

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Major School of Philosophy believed that people should doubt their senses, morality, and logic. No one can be certain about the knowledge we have

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Sceptics

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Considered all the sensation we experience are true.

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Epicureans

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Epicureanism emphasized the importance of ______and _______ as the innate goal of man.

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maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain

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Epicureans is founded by

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Epicurus

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Posited that perfect rationality is the key to achieve moral goodness and happiness.

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Stoics

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Stoics leans forward to the achievement of ______
and it is a state of mind wherein one is not distributed by passions, pain, or emotions,

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apatheia (equanimity)

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The founder of Stoics

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Zeno of Citium

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considered to be opposite of evil and what is good is preferred and desirable

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Good

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is a positive emotion or state arising from well being includes physical and mental health, life satisfactions, and a sense of purpose.

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Happiness

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happiness is a spiritual state

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Eastern Religion

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freedom from cravings as happiness

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Buddhism

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freedom from the cycle of births and deaths.

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Hinduism

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interplay of genetics. Brain physiology and chemistry, body hormones, and physical health is involved in happiness.

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Biological Perspectives

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Happiness in Greek

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eudaimonia

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Plato asserted that the highest form of happiness results from

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morality and justice.

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Is a concept central to the philosophy of Aristotle.

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Eudaimonia

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Aristotle work where he discussed other concept such as arete(virtue) and philia (friendship

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Nicomachean

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It is the end goal of human activities to lead a life- it is a complete end by itself

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Eudaimonia

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comparable to Abraham Maslow’s concept, a desirable for fulfillment or achieving the most out of one’s potential.

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Self – actualization

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arete means

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virtue

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philia means

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friendship

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Eudaimonia can be achieved by

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rational action

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virtue of thought arises from teaching.

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Intellectual virtue

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virtues of character arise from practice of habit.

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Moral virtue

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Meaning of Episteme

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scientific knowledge

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Meaning of Phronesis

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practical wisdom

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Meaning of Andreia

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bravery

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Meaning of Sophrosune

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temperance

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Technology is not an ________; it is a way of revealing the _______ about the world.

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instrument | truth

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________ is not controlled by ______; it is technology that can______human activity.

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Technology | human | control

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Technology derived from the geek word

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Technikon

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refers to both manufacturing and the arts

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Techne

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bringing-forth and something that brings “concealment to the unconcealment

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Poiesis

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Greek word for truth

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Aletheia

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Modern technology reveals by

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challenging

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german word for enframing

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Gestell

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Heidegger called for humans to practice meditative thinking over calculative thinking.

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Memorial Address

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emphasize numbers and categories; it only works to satisfy our material desire.

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Calculative Thinking

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elucidates the meaning of things, we allow nature to reveal itself to us.

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Mediative Thinking

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Mediative thinking allows us to be

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open to the truth

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is a unifying force that tied together culture, religion, politics and society. Art expressed humanity’s oneness with the universe

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Art

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is ultimately tied to good.

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Truth

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to understood the world we are in; thus, leads us closer to the truth.

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aim of science