5.5 Self-teaching questions (1-2)


QUESTION 1:

Provide short answers to the following questions:
  1. What does it mean to "know" an object?
  2. What is the Latin origin of the word "reason"?
  3. Name a few of the great religions of the world.
  4. Does day-to-day knowledge question itself and does it think it is immutable?
  5. Do scientists use day-to-day knowledge?
  6. How do we acquire common knowledge?
  7. What is an "epistemological break"?
  8. Where does in-depth or systematic knowledge begin?
  9. What distinguishes systematic knowledge?
  10. Can anybody truly understand a piece of art?
  11. What kind of deeper knowledge provides science?
  12. What are the characteristics of experimental science?
  13. List a few approaches to knowledge.
  14. What are the key steps of the experimental method?
  15. Is science a kind of religion?
  16. What criteria must a journalistic fact meet?
  17. Give some representations of what is science journalism.
  18. What is the role of the science journalist?
  19. How do you evaluate the credibility of a scientist?
  20. Do you evaluate the importance and influence of a scientist?
  21. What four possibilities could cause you to have reservations about the quality of articles peer-reviewed journals?
  22. What are the pros and cons for a scientist in participating in a scientific committee or commission?
QUESTION 2:

Consider the following and provide short answers:
  1. Would you say that there are many different ways to "know"?
  2. Do different populations have their own types of knowledge?
  3. In your culture, what does to "know" mean?
  4. Can you list some beliefs of your community?
  5. What does it mean to be a "reasonable" man or woman in your culture?
  6. Is astrology a belief or a science?
  7. Give an example of a piece of common knowledge.
  8. If I say: "the sun rises every morning and sets every evening", which repertoire of knowledge do I tap?
  9. Who taught you that the sun rises and sets?
  10. Can you remember some of the knowledge that you acquired in the company of other children and friends?
  11. Do a physicist, a painter, or a sculptor have something in common?
  12. Is it feasible to increase its understanding of some phenomena by going deeper than superficial impressions?
  13. Can you describe the difference between reason and emotion?
  14. Are there similarities between a mathematical equation and a poem?
  15. Are there differences between a mathematical equation and a poem?
  16. Is there any tradition in systematic knowledge?
  17. Someone says: "Within the same day, I saw 36,000 sunsets," while another says that "the sun never sets." Which sentence is said by a poet and which is from a scientist?
  18. What kind of people base their knowledge on aesthetics?
  19. Which person uses true knowledge that can be demonstrated?
  20. Which sentence is neutral, objective and universally true?
  21. Why do we say that scientific knowledge is its own critique and is rational?
  22. In your country, do scientists also think that they are artists?
  23. What is the experimental method?
  24. What is the use of experimental laboratories?
  25. Has a scientist from your own country ever explained his or her methods to you?
  26. What similarities between journalism and science?
  27. Are there differences?
  28. Do you agree that the science journalist is a critic of science?
  29. What information do you have on scientific research in your country: its institutions, its laboratories and research facilities, its scientists and their achievements, and on the science and technology policy?
  30. Give three reasons that make science a threat to humanity and three reasons that would make science its saviour.
  31. If the media contribute towards constructing cultures, would journalist contribute? Are there differences between science journalism as practiced in Africa, Asia, in the Arab World, in the Western World? What are these differences, if there are any?
  32. Find out how many scientific articles are published by scientists from your country.
  33. Name some scientific journals published in your country, some peer-reviewed some not.
  34. Do you agree with John Rennie?
  35. Give an example of scientific fraud in your country.
  36. Name one scientific committee in your country.
  37. Give an example of some scientific recommendations that were either accepted or rejected, in your region or country.
  38. Does your country have a science academy?
  39. Do scientific committees and science academies speak the truth?



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