Feeling of the Philosophy

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 10   In this week, I learnt under scientific inquiry, test of a hypothesis, criteria of confirmation and acceptability and evaluating arguments during this week. Under scientific inquiry, learnt about basic steps in testing hypothesis, modus tollens & modus ponens, induction in scientific inquiry and four stages in an ideal scientific inquiry. Under test of a hypothesis, learnt about experimental tests and non-experimental tests, the difference between dependent and independent variable, auxiliary hypothesis and AD hoc hypothesis. Under criteria of confirmation and acceptability, I learnt quantity, variety and precision of supporting evidence, confirmation by new test implication, theoretical support, acceptability of a hypothesis and probability of a hypothesis. Under evaluating arguments, learnt about rules of rational argumentation, fallacies that violates rules of rational argumentation, ...

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 09     Started this week learning about scope of the science, scientific revolution and empiricism. Moreover, learnt about scientific explanation in detail. Finally, leant about logical fallacy. Under scope of science, learnt about development of modern science, the difference between science and scientific, the difference between epistemology and metaphysics and the difference between scriptive and normative theories. Furthermore, learnt about empiricism under that learnt about empiricist approach, empiricist principles, skepticism, Vienna circle, logical positivism and logical empiricism. Under scientific explanation, learnt about the difference between explanation and confirmation, different kinds of explanations, difference between why and how questions, different terminologies like explanandum and explanans, difference between deduction and induction, characteristics of scientific explana...

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 07   Started this week learning about gender. Under that , I learnt about gender inequality, masculinity and femininity under conceptualizing gender. Furthermore, learnt about three principles of gender justice and capability approaches under gender justice & capabilities. Furthermore, learnt about sexism. Under that, learnt about fundamental difference between women and men under gender stereotypes. Then, learnt about modern sexism, neosexism, ambivalent sexism under contemporary sexist beliefs. Moreover, learnt about partner ideals under sexism in romantic relationship. Additionally, learnt about direct consequences of sexism like violence and discrimination, indirect consequences like stereotypes threat, confronting sexism and reducing sexism. Moreover, leant about racial and ethnic prejudice among children and adolescents. Under that, I learnt about several behavioural theories such as soci...

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 06   In this week learnt about ‘Race’: what we mean and what we think, Race, Ethnicity and Culture and finally I learnt Prejudice as Difference. Under ‘Race’: what we mean and what we think , I learnt that reluctance is a Window on to limitations of the popular account of race as a morally and neutral system of scientific classification of natural biological groups. And Race is no just way of classifying people or of talking about people, it is not just a discourse. It is a way of thinking about experiencing, perceiving, and relating to people. Furthermore I learnt about moral dangers of racial thinking. In here I learnt that moral distance is bound up with the idea of deep inherent and ineradicable differences among races. As well as I   learnt about False community, Inescapable Racial fate, Dominance and Hierarchy, Lacks of reflective which is probably clearest with respect to the implication of...

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 05 Started this week learning about ethics, hedonism and argument forms. Under ethics, I learnt that ethic can be good in theory but not in practice sometimes and ethic can do without religions sometimes. Furthermore, learnt that ethic is always not relative to the society where we live. Finally, learnt that ethic has been defined and explained in different point of views Under hedonism , I learnt about instrumental good that lead our life towards happiness, self-esteem, self-respect and different models of good life. Moreover, learnt about personal authority, wellbeing, paradox of hedonism that is the practical difficulties encountered in the pursuit of pleasure, evil pleasure, false happiness, importance of autonomy, life’s trajectory, unhappiness, variety of good lives, motivation, personal interest, getting what we want and disappointment. Under argument forms, I learnt about Modus Ponens, Invalid Mod...

  MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 04 Started this week learning about testimony, reason and rationality and conditional statement. Under testimony, I learnt what testimony is , what are the philosophical issues concerning testimony, how can we divide our central issue about testimony along two dimensions yielding four distinct questions to investigate: Descriptive   Local Question, Normative Local Question, Descriptive Global Question and Normative Global Question, about the scope of testimony,   understanding and knowledge of what has been asserted, general explanatory account of how testimony-beliefs may be justified and knowledgeable, about the psychology of belief-acquisition through testimony, what are the conditions for justified beliefs in what one is told, about the knowledge of what one is told and under this learnt about Pure Transmission Principle (PTP) as well as Reliable Transmission Principle (RTP). Furthermore, I le...