Essays on Epistemological

Since the beginning of time people used to have various views and standards for the way that everything around them should be. Throughout the history there existed many examples of the expression of ideas contradictory to the norm and all terrible consequences of such actions. Thomas Kuhn in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, made an attempt to describe the possible apprehension to change. It was mainly focused on the scientific world and the historic nature of the educational research. Any research was considered to be grounded upon one or more scientific achievements that had to be certainly ...

The following essay will discuss the terms of epistemology, theory, and methodology and which basis –– epistemological consideration or technical and practical issues –– is more efficient for research method. Epistemology is one of the most significant branches of philosophy (Klein, 2005). It studies the method of acquiring knowledge. The main question it answers is “How do we know?”. It investigates into the nature and grounds of the knowledge itself (Yeganeh, 2004). Epistemology focuses on how people differentiate true from false. Modern epistemology mainly concerns a dispute between empiricism and rationalism (Сline, 2016). Epistemologies and research methods frequently include metaphysics (Chatterjee, ...

Epistemology is the science of Knowledge. It deals with how our mind perceives knowledge. The nature of various hypotheses, concepts, theories which give us the knowledge of a particular field comes under the purview of Epistemology. It checks the validity of our senses, our reasoning and our logic. Epistemology validates the methods used in the study. It enables one to distinguish truth from falsehood. The studies we make about our environment can be useful to us because of Epistemology (Joseph, 2006). Disasters include the ones caused by nature, such as typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, etc. and those caused ...

Quantitative Research Project

Introduction When considering the characteristics of the crime as relatively independent phenomena one can understand this phenomenon as socially dangerous one. At the same time, crime is only an element of the public events. Existing and functioning in society, it permeates all different areas and various public attitudes. From this perspective, crime is a social phenomenon, which could be discussed qualitatively. Consequently, this assignment is aimed at analysis of the teaching dataset of British Crime Survey 2007-2008.

Literature Review

Crime is a social phenomenon, which is not only ontological, but epistemological. It generated all of the conditions of social life. This ...

Abstract

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Background

Megaprojects have become a significant issue in the economic and infrastructural development of projects nationwide. An estimated 8% of the global GDP is made up of megaproject related funds and they have become the primary vehicle for the creation and delivery of a variety of social infrastructural projects including “water and energy, information technology, industrial processing plants, mining, supply chains, enterprise systems, strategic corporate initiatives and change programs, mergers and acquisitions, government administrative systems, banking, ...

Introduction

Thesis: Unhealthy lifestyle habits are the main reason for the increasing rates of cardiovascular disease. Research question: What are the causes of the increasing rates of cardiovascular disease? Research aim: The aim of the research is to provide solutions to reduce the rates of cardiovascular disease. Research objectives: The first research objective is to examine the risk factors for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. The second research objective is to evaluate the impact of the increasing rates of cardiovascular disease on society.

Literature review

The literature review involves examining the perspectives of different scholars regarding cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease refers to ...

A work like Pearl S Buck’s The Good Earth is by its very nature orientalist in the Saidian sense Because it was created within the structures of Orientalism as both a genre and as an epistemological category. Buck was born the child of an American missionary in China and spent much of her formative years there. Buck’s early life and experiences as an American and the child of a missionary informed her preconceptions of China, its people, society, and culture. Orientalism in this sense isn’t just a literary genre: an orientalist work is not just, a ...

Introduction

The current study entails the determination of the constituents of a high self-esteem in young children. The methodology chapter details the approach of the researcher into answering this question. This section presents information on the paradigmatic choices of the researcher. The chapter will also outline the ontological and epistemological positions on which the study is based. The section will also outline the research design to be used and a description of the participants and their location. The methodology chapter will also highlight the materials that the researcher will use, the procedure through which the study will be performed, the ...

1. In the Meditations, Descartes makes a clean sweep of his beliefs and begins again. Explain Descartes’ critical application of his method of doubt and the way he builds knowledge on a new foundation. Can Descartes’ rationalist account of knowledge of external objects withstand the criticisms of Locke’s empiricism? In the end, which epistemological account is more plausible, Descartes’ rationalism or Locke’s empiricist account? Explain. (70 marks) The critical application of Descartes' method of doubt puts all ideas or beliefs into doubt in order to establish a new grounds for reasoning. He begins with skepticism, but attempts ...

The era of European civilization was marked by the French Revolution. The epoch was entangled in dialectic movements that tore it between romanticism and rationalism. The period marked the pick of literary works with several artists fronting different ideologies and eventual rejection of classicism. The fronting of romanticism came as a revolt against the intellectual order that had been glorified by rationalism. The critical period gave birth to great artists like Gerard Hopkins who followed in the footsteps of his father became an iconic figure in literary and poetic works that defined the era of romanticism (Caldecott 121-42). The ...