Philosophical notions
The following notions underpin the human and natural sciences.
Tasks:
1. Find definitions for each of the following notions below.
2. Place them on a continuum with the brief definitions under each.
Google doc for organizing these terms
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences - ICAAP
- Modernism
- Post-modernism
- Grand narratives/definitive answers/notion of a fixed linear truth
- Lesser confidence/greater modesty in narratives, non-linear, malleable, nuanced and context specific notion of truth(s)
- Objective
- Subjective
- Positivism
- Free Will
- Determinism
- Qualitative
- Reductionism
- Quantitative
- Universality
- Holism
- Social Construction of Reality; rejection of a knowable found world (or one expected to be found)
- Knowable prediction of a fixed reality to be ‘found’
- Lust for certainty
- Acceptance of uncertainty
