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Philosophical Benchmarks in Science
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on August 8, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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what does science provide us?
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Socrates (470BC-399BC)
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one of the great heroes of                      endeavor
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society was                         
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Socrates employed                  free thought to this hierarchical society and its ideas
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use reason and               
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dialectical method
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learning through disciplined, rigorous, and thoughtful                  and logically defending one's ideas during intensive                       
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the step forward for                  in understanding the natural world
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Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
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did a lot of hiking in the                    throughout Greece
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found marine                high in mountains
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philosophized about their origin
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in this sense he was an early                             , someone who studies life through geologic time based on the principle of geology and               
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assumptions and evidence were important to him: what are your theories assuming and what evidence do you have to support your             ?
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what kind of                        are you making and how are they                 ?
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analogy identifies               
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analogy: we as humans have an experiential base which we bring to anything we are a part of
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if we see something new, the first thing we do is                it to something else we have experienced before
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anomaly: those areas where our analogy does not        completely to the phenomena being observed
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it is exactly these things that become interesting, concerning, or                    about what is being observed, and something that should be identified as a topic of                investigation
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René Descartes (1596-1650)
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French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his life in the            Republic
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1637 book: Discourse on the              of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
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carefully and accurately using critical reasoning and our senses, we can acquire knowledge about the                world and build a foundation to acquire more knowledge
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Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)
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1962 book: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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one of the natures of science is that it is done by              within society
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some of the most important developments in science have been accompanied by pain, struggle, and                   
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those scientific discoveries that have been                by society which were also based in                                and testable predictions, have generally                   
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