MCD BIO 60 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sewage Treatment, Blind Experiment, Moral Authority

• School: UCLA
• Department: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
• Course: MCD BIO 60
• Professor: Cvrkel Tiffany

Document Summary

The goal of science is to obtain truth and accuracy through rigorous proof. The structured deliberation of scientific actions is scientific method. Sm includes question->background knowledge->form hypothesis->create experiment, observe results->analyze data->draw conclusion. As humans, we are prone to making mistakes. We tend to prove what we see and believe. We are comfortable relating causal to moral responsibility. Bias is the function of how our intention works. It can be insidious and impact negatively our deliberation (the study on the progression of syphilis) Deliberation encompasses belief, knowledge, desires and so on. To do good science, we need to get accurate views about the world. To obtain accuracy, we need check own bias. The purpose of sm is to eliminate the process of bias. Yet, checking own bias is only sufficient, not necessary, in finding what is accurate in scientific world - the framing problem in ai (ai can process deliberation) We need to make valued judgment on what is important.