Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Essay 2, On The Emergent Properties of Flatulance
- The Most Morally Ethically Ubermenschen TOK Essay Ever Meditated Upon
- By Aryan
Sharma
- “Knowledge within a discipline
develops according to the principles
of natural selection.”
- Knowledge Question: To what extent can
the principle of "natural selection" in knowledge assist in
understanding the changing nature of peoples volition
- How useful is this metaphor?
- In what way do we define "use"
- How do people "use" knowledge
- Objectivity
- Evolution of use in
a Darwinian sense
- Tools like those used by Homo Erectus
- Versus computers that we use today
- Subjectiviy
- What about the "use" of how we use mathematical conceps
- Architectural beauties that we create
- Paintings that use specific proportion or space
- Is usefulness, "Real" world application
- What is "real"?
- How do we know something is "real"?
- Truth tests?
- Does Correspondence define "Real"?
- Does Coherence define "Real"?
- Natural selection...
- How does temporality affect the development of knowledge?
- What is the role of evolution in epistemology... EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY
- Is knowledge statically constant or evolving over time?
- WHAT ABOUT PARADIGM SHIFTS?
- STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
- Does that show the evolving nature of knowledge
- Ways of Knowing
- Reason
- I will be exploring how reasoning used by
people changes over time as what is
coherently important to them changes
- Sense Perception
- In a literal sense, can the way that people perceive "truth" also change over time?
- Today, we are easily fooled by simple illusions, will we someday, "evolve" so as to transcend in understanding
- Real Life Situation
- Schumpeterian "Evolutionary Economics"
- Area of Knowledge
- Human Sciences