Epistemology

Worldview Epistemology Origins Problem Solution Destiny Naturalism The epistemology of Naturalism is based on the scientific method. Reason and scientific observation determines truth in this worldview. Naturalists explain the origins of humanity through the theory of evolution. Many Naturalists believe in the “big bang” as the origins of matter and the human race. Naturalists can’t specifically find a problem because they feel that this is the way things are supposed to be. Creatures survive…

When I think about my personal epistemology and how I come to know what I know and how my beliefs are formed I often think of the age old philosophical question of the tree falling in the forest. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" If knowledge exists and we don’t discover it, does it still not exist? In AD 157 physicians first noticed that the heart was responsible for pumping blood and speculated how this process worked, but it was not until…

Indigenous Epistemology Countless times,the western dominant society has discounted Indigenous Knowledge and discredited their beliefs and lifestyles. Deloria(2001) said“For many centuries whites scorned the knowledge of American Indians,regarding whatever the people said as gross,savage superstition and insisting that their own view of the world, a complex mixture of folklore,religious doctrine, and greek natural sciences, was the highest intellectual achievement of our species?”(p.1). Western…

and Epistemology The history of philosophy begins with the Pre-Socratic period. The period is named because it was the period before the philosopher Socrates was born. The philosophers that lived during the Pre-Socratic period came up with the idea of metaphysics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of reality. Socrates was born in 471 BC and brought an end to the Pre-Socratic period and brought the beginning to many new branches of philosophy such as Epistemology,…

affects what we select to observe and how we choose to interpret it. This in turn affects our hypothesis and consequentially affects the rest of the scientific method (Jaggar 693). Adopting feminist epistemology will also provide a more objective approach to science. This is because feminist epistemology encourages people other than white men to engage in scientific experiments. By doing so, the experiment will be less biased because it seems that white men pick the evidence that best supports…

Deniece A. Jukiewicz Self-Evaluation of Current Understanding of Epistemology and State of Knowledge Development in Nursing At the completion of the Nursing Epistemology course, I have learned that the word epistemology is much more complicated than simply being defined as “knowing how” and “knowing that” as I first believed during the beginning of this course. Schultz and Meleis (1988) suggest that knowing is a discovery process humans perform through observation, perception, and…

world which provides a philosophical and conceptual framework for the organized study of that world". Creswell (1994) describes assumptions of research paradigms as "Ontology" in which researchers make claims about the knowledge that what is it, "Epistemology" refers that how the knowledge will be identified, "Axiology" defines the ethics and social values related to research, "Rhetoric" explains the style of languageof research report, and “Methodology" describes the procedure of learning or…

learning styles used by students such as Metaphysics, Epistemology, Axiology and Logic. Metaphysics comes from the understanding of reality and what is real. A lot of the teaching of Metaphysics comes from scientific observations, that in order to believe something, it must first be observed in order to be understood. Whereas, Epistemology finds a reason for an object to be true. I took that as instead of just observing something to be true, Epistemology deals with the logic of truth. For…

unsatisfactory demonstration of intelligence, because it lacks the important concept of epistemology. For GOFAI doesn 't create opinions, beliefs, nor does it desire to justify it data base of information. Rather, GOFAI only abides to the rules that are written in to its programming, in the presumption it’s data is true. For the epistemological notion of creating, obtaining and justifying…

main parts of this world are and how these parts work together. It also can be defined as psychological research, people`s attempts to understand the laws of the mind, to check the validity of the existing knowledge in the field of psychology. Epistemology is a philosophical study about the real knowledge and how this true knowledge can be obtained. There is a necessity of defining ontological and epistemological directions of experimental social psychology. Arguments about the subject of…