EES 0842 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Infant Mortality, Dependent And Independent Variables, William Godwin
20 Oct 2016
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Need to ask the right questions in the right way. Episteme: a system of understanding or a body of idea which give shape to the knowledge f that time. Epistemology: the study of how we know what we know. Thomas malthus, 1798- essay on the principle of population. It will grow arithmetically because farmers will farm more land (1,2,3,4,5) Malthus said that preventative checks actually impossible. His logic was write but the timeframe of his predictions were incorrect. Agriculture potential of new world still unknown. French revolution (afraid of uprising in england because of what he saw in france. Debates about the role of science in society. Prometheans- believed science doesn"t have to be separate from god. Mary godwin-mary shelley (wrote frankenstein: or the modern prometheus) # of births per 1000 people in a population per year. # of deaths per every 1000 live births w/in a year of life.
