Social Sciences & Humanities Flashcards
_____ is the branch of philosophy concerned with questions of knowledge, namely: “How do you know?”; “What is knowable?” and “How do you know what you know is what you think it is?”
epistemology
metaphysics
metaphilosophy
logic
positivism
structural functionalism
“the natural attitude”
conflict theory
symbolic interactionism
eugenics
emic; etic
postmodernism (see Seymour, McManus)
subjectivism
deflationary; essentialist
direct realism
sexism; misogyny
chronotope
“enoughness”
British empiricists
analysis; explication; causal modeling
_______, one of two competing epistemologies that developed in the seventeenth century, regards OBSERVATION BY THE SENSES as the only reliable source of knowledge.
empiricism
_______, one of two competing epistemologies that developed in the seventeenth century, claims that REASON is the most important source and test of truth.
rationalism
“Justified true belief” is another way of saying ______.
knowledge
teleology
cosmogony
theosophy