Zusammenfassung der Ressource
"Knowledge within a discipline
developes according to the principles
of natural selection"
- Thesis
- The process of natural selection follows the principle which indicates that
the fittest will survive, furthermore it is a scientific principle of evolution,
which means change, when we apply such principle to knowledge I am able
to understand how knowledge might be aprove or discard by the
enviornment were is been exposed. Natural selection is a principle we can
use to understand the way knowledge is approve in a society. By fittest we
must specify that is the answer to the pressure of the environment therefore
it is a selection not an immediate change.
- There are examples of knowledge which is
accepted as a fact but has been discard by
the way it has been produced
- Some knowledge cannot be aproved
because it is not fit in the specific
environment
- Area of Knowledge
- History
- Example
- The pyramids of Giza
- Argument
- It is easier to accept facts
rather to question their
relaiability, from were do
we obtain conclusions
- How can an enviroment approve or
discard knowledge? And the principle
of competition in natural selection
- By accepting it as trustful or by disapproving it
- Area of Knowledge
- Ethics
- Example
- CAS
Exprience and
Cuba
(medicine)
- Argument
- Some knowledge is discarded or
accepted because there is no
competition. When knowledge is share
from communities to the world it has a
larger competition
- The idea of fittest clearly fulfills the concepts of developing knowledge
- Being fittest means having qualities which succede in
the environment, example; your knowledge is supported
by others findings
- Area of Knowledge
- The arts
- Argument
- By being "trendy" knowledge can be
accepted as a fact, since it does not
require a questioning follows the
principle of competition
- Example
- Mexican Revolution paintings
by Frida and Diego. How can
art portray something without
questioning if it really happen
- Ideas
- Counter-arguments
- Not all the knowlege
evolves
- We may satate that knowledge
is not a product of evolution;
change, but knowledge is the
product of comprobation
- Not all knowledge passes
through a process of
evaluation, or has a
pressure from environment
- How efficent is using a
scientific concept as a
formulae to evaluate
the process of
knowledge
- Areas
- History
- Why?
- When we try to find an equilibrium of the study of
the past and the study of knowledge we are able to
find a serie of knowlege which has been or greetly
missunderstood or incredibly elevated and
sometimes missunderstood. Since it is more
comfortable to interpret knowlege as true, without
questioning it. continue to be accepted by society as
a fact.
- Example
- Communism and anarchism are bad is a missconception
- Ethics
- Why?
- While ethics is the study of morality
it is important to evaluate this title
in this area, since it will be unethical
to ignore someones knowledge.
- Example
- CAS Experience
- Discarding a knowledge just because
the source is not relaiable
- What makes a source relaible? and why does it need to be relaiable
- The human sciences
- Why?
- Anthropology, do we asses knowledge?
- Example
- Education and critical reassoning
- There are communities of
knowledge, were we accept
something as true just because
there is no competition (no other knowledge)
- Example
- Cuba as a community of knowledge by been
isolated from the modern world, developed
their own pharmaceutical products for cancer
and VIH for example
- Following the principle of Natural Selection,
their realiability has been lost since they are
no longer isolated and have acces to other
knowledge (competition)
- TOK Question
- To what extent can we measure the pressure of the environment to the knowledge that is been shared also being evaluated and only after this be sheared and accpeted by the society?
- + Q
- To what extent can we use scientific concepts to evaluate something as abstract as knowledge, while science is focused in numbers and clear data?
- Until which point can knowledge be evaluated as a process?
- Interest
- I am particulary interest in this title because I enjoy the
combination of the questioning of knowledge and scince
involve. I believe there are somethings science cannot
explain and knowledge is one of them...