P= Science (Theory) Flashcards
Bacon (empiricist) argued that empirical knowledge
revealed the true nature of creation/ God.
What were his 3 forms of acquiring knowledge?
Authority
Reason
Experience
Bacon (empiricist) argued that empirical knowledge
revealed the true nature of creation/ God.
What were his 3 aims for a scientific world?
Discovery of truth
Moral/ Ethical guidelines
Useful knowledge
Occam promoted the Law of Patrimony (proof of existance of God)
What did he propose?
When you have 2 theories explaining the same
phenomena, choose the simplest theory
= +likely to be true/ accepted by others
due to its less inferences
due to more of a representation with our
heuristic representation
What were popper’s 3 solutions to the problem of
Induction?
Disconfirmation
Conditionality
Falsifiability
What did Quine argue?
All research is theory-driven/laden therefore bias
What did Kuhn argue science was full of?
Paradigms
There is a Paradigm shift to a new approach when an anomaly appears
What did Lakatos think science should be?
Science should be self-preserved
progressive or abandoned
What are Kuhn’s 4 values of science?
Order Phenomena
Consistancy
Agree with current evidence
Produce new research findings
What are Merton’s 5 values of science?
Originality
Universalism
Communalism
Disinterestedness
Organised Scepticism
Single Hermeneutic when we try and understand
eg.rocks
rocks do not try and understand us is known as which
type of science?
Natural sciences
Double Hermeneutic when we try and understand you
and you us (reciprocal) is known as which type of science?
Social sciences
However; DC may arise
Post Positivist Epistemologies use which types of methods
to study Natural Science?
Experiments, surveys, stats
quantitative methods
that focus on explaining Phenomena
Interpretivism, Constructivism- Social constructionism
and Feminism use which types of methods to study
Natural Sciences?
Interviews, focus groups, P observation
qualitative methods
that focus on interpreting and understanding Phenomena
