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ADM 270 Evaluative Research on the WWW

ADM 270 Evaluative Research on the WWW. Using the World Wide Web to investigate data for reasoned interpretation. How do we come to KNOW. Trial and error through our senses By what we are told By what we read By our genetic heritage. Trial and Error Through Our Senses. Five Senses Sight

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ADM 270 Evaluative Research on the WWW

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  1. ADM 270Evaluative Research on the WWW Using the World Wide Web to investigate data for reasoned interpretation

  2. How do we come to KNOW • Trial and error through our senses • By what we are told • By what we read • By our genetic heritage

  3. Trial and Error Through Our Senses • Five Senses • Sight • Do we have to see it before we “believe” it exists? • What limits our ability to see? • Hearing • If it makes a sound is it real? • Taste • If we can only taste it, is it real? • Touch • What does touch play in evaluating objects? • Smell • What can smell alert us to?

  4. Scientific Method • The scientific method is the process by which scientists, collectively and over time, endeavor to construct an accurate (that is, reliable, consistent and non-arbitrary) representation of the world. • The scientific method attempts to minimize the influence of bias or prejudice in the experimenter when testing an hypothesis or a theory.

  5. Four Steps in the Scientific Method • 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena. • 2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation. • 3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations. • 4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.

  6. Newtonian Physics • Newtonian Physics theory is based on the late 17th century notion that the Universe is made up of solid objects which are attracted towards each other by a force called 'Gravity'. This theory was extended in the 19th century to include atoms as being the fundamental building blocks of nature. Newton's Laws of Motion (Newtonian Mechanics) successfully described the motions of planets, mechanical machines and fluids and this success gave rise to the notion that the laws of Newtonian Physics were basic laws of nature and as such were immutable. (i.e. fixed) According to Newtonian Physics, the universe is a huge mechanical system of solid objects based on absolute (fixed) time and three (3) dimensional space (i.e. height, length and width) and as such is linear. (uniform)

  7. Newton's Laws of Motion (Newtonian Mechanics) successfully described the motions of planets, mechanical machines and fluids and this success gave rise to the notion that the laws of Newtonian Physics were basic laws of nature and as such were immutable. (i.e. fixed) According to Newtonian Physics, the universe is a huge mechanical system of solid objects based on absolute (fixed) time and three (3) dimensional space (i.e. height, length and width) and as such is linear. (uniform) • Despite the fundamental flaws in the theory, the Newtonian view of the universe is embraced by most humans today as 'fact' simply because it describes most day-to-day physical phenomena so well and is based upon the notion of a fixed 'solid' Universe, something that most humans find very comforting. • This has led most people to subconsciously view their world, including their physical bodies, as solid mechanical objects and that all phenomena, including human consciousness, are the direct result of the interactions of the so-called separate 'mechanical' parts comprising them.

  8. Positivism • A school of philosophy developed in the 1920’s by the Vienna Circle (Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Friedrich Waismann, Hans Hahn, Ernst Topitsch) and the single most prominent philosophical view in the U.S. and the world until 1950. • The logical truth of a proposition must be ultimately grounded in its accordance with the (physical) material world. All arguments should be based on the rules of logical inference applied to propositions grounded in observable facts. • Hence they support realism, materialism, philosophical naturalism, empiricism and favor the scientific method.

  9. The Western World is Stuck in Positivism and Newtonian Physics • The vast majority of High School graduates as well as non-science and math college graduates believe and thus live in a world that does not exist.

  10. What does modern Physics say about our Universe • The physical universe is just a myriad of "tendencies to exist" associated with a vast interconnected energy field.

  11. What about a modern view of Philosophy • Post Modernism • Rooted in Phenomenology • Socially constructed reality • All perception is grounded in context • Qualitative as opposed to Quantitative Methods

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