PHIL 203 Lecture 6: Week 6 Notes
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Start from the world and shape theoretical concepts. Sounds obvious, but doesn"t happen as often as you would think. Many people start from highly theoretical concepts and take them for granted, and think that they are obvious, then htye proceed to examine the world from those theoretical goggles. Can be seen with human beings are inherently and naturally selfish . This is an example of epistemology of convenience. Fact-selection is often piloted by theory, rather than the other way around. We must always have a view from somewhere. We make factual judgements about what the values of science are, and how they can be realized". We are confronted with a choice between two or more rival ways of explaining the same set of phenomena. Cognitive values that are at work in content of theory choice.
