CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE KARL POPPER KWAME A. APPIAH THOMAS S. KUHN Helen E. Longino
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Method of Tenacity
Truth is what is known to the individual or group
100
Verificationists or Falsificationists
According to Popper every Philosopher falls under what two categories
100
Literally
Appiah belies that religious should be looked at...
100
During their education
When should scientific beliefs be ingrained?
100
Feminist Science
A version of recently propounded notions of a ‘women’s standpoint’ or a ‘feminist standpoint’ and suffers from the same suspect univerilization that these ideas suffer from”
200
Method of Authority
Adopted by individuals to protect their own belief
200
Knowledge in general
The studying of the growth of scientific knowledge is the best way for studying the growth of...
200
True
Ones beliefs should change to whatever is more likely to be true. (True/False)
200
Normal Science
Research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements
200
Matilda Effect
A bias against acknowledging the achievements of those women scientists whose work is attributed to their male colleagues
300
The A Priori Method
People search for a superior method to fix their belief
300
Criterion of relative potential satisfactory
What are the tests called that make a theory better than some other theory
300
Karl Popper
Appiah also refutes what other philosopher?
300
Paradigm
Distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards
300
Constitutive values
The rules that determine what is acceptable scientific practice or scientific method
400
The method of science?
Is superior to all other methods
400
The theory should pass some new, and severe, tests
According to Popper what is the last requirement for a theory to get near the truth
400
That false beliefs cannot survive
What did Appiah credit Durkheim with?
400
Progresses
Kuhn believes science dose what over time?
400
Contextual values
Indicate to what social and cultural context the science in question particularly belong
500
No
Does Science tell us the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
500
Verificationists
People that think a belief must be supported by positive reasons, otherwise, it should not even be considered as a belief in the first place
500
Robin Horton
What philosopher dose Appiah compare his view point to?
500
A scientific revolution
Noncumulative developmental episode in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one
500
The structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin should be recolonized as discovering the structure of what in science?






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