How do we know what we know How

How do we know what we know?

How do we know? How do people know whether spanking a child is okay to do? How do people know whether something they read online is true? Did the FBI raid a retirement home to break up an elderly fight club? https: //worldnewsdailyreport. com/retirement-home-raided-by-the-fbi-for-running-elderlyfight-club-7 -arrests/ Is FB really changing its privacy guidelines? Nonpartisan websites to check Snopes. com Factcheck. org Politifact. com

Ways of knowing Authority Intuition Rationalism Empiricism Tenacity Scientific method

Try it Come up with examples of different types of explanations for Cats are better pets than dogs. Psychology majors have a better understanding of people than do chemistry majors.

Example: Bystander intervention Kitty Genovese, 28 year old bar manager, stabbed to death in Kew Gardens, NY in 1964 News article: 38 people heard her calls and no one called for police (turns out were some later discovered) Why didn’t people help? Bystander apathy Diffusion of responsibility

Differences between common sense and scientific explanations 1. Common sense is often contradictory 2. They both start with observations, but differ in what evidence is required 3. Science is self-correcting 4. Science is objective 5. Science can only “know” things that are testable Confirmation bias

Scientific explanations Data Deduction Induction Theor y

Are there any problems with these scientific explanations? Do sheet