Title: Scientists Say that We are all Scientists: A Slightly Ironic Introduction to Lay-epistemology for the Lay Person
Essay
2011
Statement: A learned perspective on epistemology notes that the world is complex and can never be completely understood. Nevertheless, it is evolutionarily adaptive for the human mind to try and attain a functional understanding of the world that they must navigate. Psychology, a scientific discipline devoted to the study of the mind, has illuminated how humans attain this understanding. In what follows, I (a student of social psychology) present a preeminent psychological theory which succinctly outlines a prevalent method that the human mind utilizes to make sense of the world.
Excerpt:
Scientists Say that We are all Scientists
What’s in the center?
Imagine that you are a pre-renaissance scientist. As a scientist you come to know reality with careful observation and rational thought. Like other scientists of your day, you have observed that the sun, stars, moon, and planets move around the Earth once every day. You also…
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Peer Reviews
1
Juhl presents a short readable paper on the layperson’s use of the scientific method to develop and redevelop theories of knowledge. Content-wise, the work is on topic with the exhibition in that it describes and theorizes how individuals come to create their own knowledge of the world. The work also indirectly engages with the idea of peer review in that it presents itself as a paper that references papers in peer-reviewed journals.
2
The title of this piece should be: “virtuous people and texts.” This is also a good sentence: “Paradoxically, it is a science that produces the knowledge that people attain knowledge through the scientific method. ” I am into this piece, I am not sure that I agree with the logic but the author is clear and concise, the author defends his position and provides references. I think it is important to have an essay like this in a show with a strong visual bent. This piece has a sense of humor.
