History of Research Flashcards
Mastery
Ideas travel with what
what approach do we need to understand the philosophies of indigenous people
technology, travel with the new tech of written language
ethnophilosophical approach, as their ideas as passes down through oral culture, and it is unfair to assume they are less developed because of no writing.
Socrated never wrote anything
Research is resource…
what were some key inventions that help the scientific revolution
draining, takes a lot of time, money, effort to get good and precise findings
writing, Galileo published findings in Italian so everyone would understand, not like the church which withheld info
origins of the scientific method
rationalism (rene descartes)
formal process of testing an idea to determine the merit of said idea
investigation into ontology and epistemology(study of nature of reality and knowledge)
Rene descartes
your ideas are apples in a barrel
- Some of the things I used to believe,
have turned out to be false… - How do I know that what I think
today is not false… - How did I come to know the things I
currently know? - Cartesian Skepticism…
- Epistemological questions –knowledge and knowing…
if one idea is rotten, it may spoil the others
take them all out, pick through each one, then put them back
Can you know something to be true by reading it, learning it from someone else?
Yes or no?
why not? relating to the person who taught you
Can you know something to be true by reading it, learning it from
someone else?
* No:
1) The person who has taught it to me could be wrong in their:
understanding, interpretation,
2) Could be deceiving me for their own gain.
if i can’t trust others, I must only trust…
how can i tell if the world i am in is real and not an illusion
local doubt, global doubt
info I have found from my own experiences, but my senses can be fooled
wine tastes dif with dif foods.
- Local doubt ( I can wake up, then I know I was dreaming)
- Global doubt
- Simulation hypothesis… Matrix.. Demon controlled reality.
- Recall back to the second lecture: How is (what is the term) to
describe how you came to know many things that you currently know? - What variable is the most difficult to control?
- What aspect of the experiment is it important to keep as close as
possible to “real life”?
Attestation or testimony
the independent variable like, subject compliance
external validity
