SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TRADITIONAL THOUGHT
SCIENCE VS ETHICS, RELIGION, AESTHTICS
SCIENTIFIC PROPONENTS
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
100
Necessary because we are faced with a host of public policy debates, from global warming to genetic engineering, in which scientific evidence often plays a crucial role.
What is PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
100
Blind faith in the power of science to determine all truth.
What is SCIENTISM
100
The "Standpoint theory"- the production of knowledge leads to "strong objectivity".
What is SANDRA HARDING
100
Science makes progress cumulatively by adding fresh and new knowledge to the old stock of knowledge. Thus, scientific progress consists in extending the laws of nature to explain more and more hitherto unexplained phenomena.
What is COMMON-SENSE VIEW
100
He discovered the route to normal science
Who is THOMAS S. KUHN
200
New events which are inconsistent with prevailing laws and theories
What is ANOMALY
200
He Examines the difference between doubt and belief
Who is CHARLES SANDERS
200
Rejects the idea that science grows through making conjectures based on theoretical laws
Who is KARL POPPER
200
He said; Science grows not so much by deducing hypotheses from some known laws as it does by making interesting guesses and then subjecting them to rigorous criticism
Who is KARL POPPER
200
Explaining an event consists in subsuming under some law.
What is COVERING-LAW MODEL
300
In the broad sense, any proposed solution to the problem of evil. In the narrow sense, any solution to the problem of evil that reconciles the existence of evil with the existence of God.
What is THEODICY
300
A scientific achievement so deep and impressive that it defines the daily practice for a particular community of scientists.
What is PARADIGM
300
A scientific revolution occurs when an old paradigm is replaced with a new one.
Who is THOMAS S. KUHN
300
Movement which has for goal the improvement of the social, political and economic advancement of women.
What is FEMINISM
300
Sometimes called the “scientific method” because it involves deducing predictions that can be experimentally tested in order to check some hypothesis.
What is HYPOTHETICO-DEDUCTIVE METHOD
400
A term that means not only incompatibility but also a degree of difference so fundamental that no value judgments are possible about incompatible views because they are based on a completely different set of assumptions.
What is INCOMMENSURABLE
400
An established practice designed to explain things by answering the "why" and "how" question regarding natural phenomena or events.
What is SCIENCE
400
Modernity is more accommodative than traditional cultural belief.
Who is KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
400
The method of discovering the best scientific hypotheses for a given situation.
What is ABDUCTION
400
It refers to a situation in which all possible observational evidence is compatible with mutually incompatible theories. In other words, available evidence cannot support a choice between them.
What is UNDERDETERMINATION OF THEORY
500
A proponent who states that, Traditional religious theory is like natural science in that they both explain, predict and control.
Who is KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
500
Everybody has a personal, social, cultural and historical standpoint that limits and makes possible what they can know through discovering, analyzing and critiquing standpoint.
What is STANDPOINT THEORY
500
Discursive formation
Who is MICHEL FOUCAULT
500
"Love of wisdom"
What is PHILOSOPHY.
500
Science characterized by a rejection of traditional, time-honored and well-established theories of how the world runs in favor of new and incompatible theories.