CRCJ 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Pseudoscience, Main Source

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3001
• Professor: Donna Mailoux

Document Summary

Class structure: all class assignments lead to the term paper, pick a narrow research question and stick with it throughout. Science evolves, therefore todays science may be tomorrows pseudoscience. Ways of knowing (midterm: apply critical knowledge, there can be more than 1 way of knowing in certain scenarios: tenacity (knowledge by force of habit) Saves time in evaluating evidence ourselves byt often flawed source and flawed process: intuition (knowledge by a gut feeling) No direct involvement of the senses but rather a hunch. Usually occurs after rational thinking has failed. Lacks supporting evidence: rational (relying on logic and rationality) Rules of logic applied to a premise so that a reasonable conclusion can be derived. More rigorous however only as good as the assumptions/premise that underlie it: empiricism (knowledge is acquired via senses and observation) All of our knowledge comes from one of our primary senses.