HOW DO WE KNOW THINGS GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

EPISTEMOLOGY

1. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES TEACHER : STEVEN GONZALO ALEMAN HUACO

2. WHAT DEFINES THIS TERM “PERSPECTIVE”?

3. HOW DO WE KNOW THINGS? IT’S A CHALLENGING QUESTION, ISN’T IT?

4. DEFINING KNOWLEDGE

5. DEFINING KNOWLEDGE

6. What we know depends on the evidence we have for different fact How strong that evidence needs to be depends on the reason we care about a particular piece of information

7. FIVE TYPES OF EVIDENCES PROOF CLAIM INFERENCE EXPERIENCE DEDUCTIVE TESTING

8. PROOFS THINGS THAT CAN BE DETERMINED THROUGH MATHEMATICAL OR LOGICAL REASONING, ASSESSED IF THIS REASONING HOLDS UP. THINKING EXISTENCE

9. CLAIMS THINGS WE HEAR OR READ FROM OTHERS

10. CLAIMS THE VALUE OF THE CLAIM DEPENDS ON PLAUSIBILITY OF THE CLAIM EXPERTISE OF THE CLAIMANT RELIABILITY OF THE CLAIMANT

11. EXPERIENCE THINGS WE HAVE WATCHED OR DIRECTLY ENCOUNTERED

12. EXPERIENCE THE VALUE OF THE EXPERIENCE DEPENDS ON THE RELIABILITY OF OUR OBSERVATIONS

13. INFERENCE THINGS WE ASSUME BASED ON OTHER PIECES OF EVIDENCES

14. INFERENCE THE VALUE OF THE INFERENCE DEPENDS ON HOW BIG LEAP THE INFERENCE IS FROM THE EVIDENCE

15. DEDUCTIVE TESTING

16. IF YOU CAN’T KNOW ANYTHING FOR CERTAIN RECOGNIZE THE EVIDENCE BEHIND EACH ASSERTION BELIEVE THAT ASSERTION IN ACCORDANCE TO THE EVIDENCE