MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ironism, Media Regulation, Radical Empiricism
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Analysis: how to get to exam: click exam one on portal at 3, exam will only be there from 3-3:30. What does it mean to be: metaphysics: Truth is transcendent, constant, a universal one. Truth is (cid:862)out there(cid:863) (cid:449)aiti(cid:374)g to (cid:271)e dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)ered. Longstanding debates: pragmatism: instead of ethereal concepts of being and time, focus on everyday practical affairs: what (cid:449)orks, (cid:449)hat does(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork and why so that improvements can be made truth is local, contingent, contextual, historical and therefore we need to: Goal: produce tangible results and benefits: three key pragmatists: Pragmatists agree that all searches for essential truth equally fail because none of them makes any real difference. However, pragmatists restrict relativism to what can be discussed, tested, and selected in the process of problem solving. Media regulation; a pragmatic paradigm * know for exam: 1. Consequences the clear effects of a given regulation on a society at large: 2.
