Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Methodological Individualism, Problem Of Induction, Simulacrum
11 May 2020
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What is science? science aims a knowledge of patters, structures, regularities and laws. Wants to explain and understand features of scientific knowledge: generalizability, controllability (repeatability, objectivity (independence, valid methods of research, clear and simple models of explanation (parsimony. Good reason model of truth claim is true if it is supported by the balance of reasons take care of fallacies (circular, or just offering few options) What is reasonable: correct methods of research and argumentation (methodological, statistics inherit problems, human act upon representatively heuristic (the more a person fits into a type the higher the chance) -> argue whether intuition is acceptable. Idealism: all natural phenomena are just mental representations (just ideas of ours, objects appear and disappear. Realism: which objects and phenomena we can distinguish depends on our minds. 1: some things are just real for some people (inuit different snow) More than one perspective and approach in studying natural and social phenomena.
