PHIL 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Animal Testing, Food Science, Argument From Analogy
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Phil 12 lecture 13 food science. 1,000 word science article about something that we talked about. Definition of good science journalism depends on your definition of it. Last time: argument from analogy: assume that two things are similar in some respects, then it is justified to say that they are similar in another respect, things of type x have features f, g, h . Things of type y have features f, g, h, and z. Things of type x have feature z as well. Important in science and everyday life: underlies animal testing, to get to trial, rtc, have to establish that the study participants are not going to be harmed before it goes to trial. In neuroscience, ratio is 5. 5:1: many feminist philosophers of science have argued that this represents androcentric bias (male-centric; males are universal, and women are kind of a special case)
