Glg 101 Week 1

With this lesson, we begin a new unit on epistemology, which is the philosophical study of knowledge claims. In this first lesson on epistemology, we begin by examining the question “What do we mean when we say we know something?” What exactly is knowledge? We will begin with a presentation that introduces the traditional definition of knowledge. Wood then discusses some of the basic issues raised in the study of epistemology and then presents an approach to epistemology that focuses on obtaining the intellectual virtues, a point we will elaborate on in the next lesson.

Peter Elbow’s essay centers on different ways to examine claims in life. Specifically, Elbow describes two different methods, or “games,” to examine claims: the doubting game and the believing game.

By completing the interest survey, I felt in the position of a student: to have to think on unusual things and understand that they are part of who I am. I realized that I could know a bit more about me. I learned about my favorite food and my favorite singer, which are different from 10 years ago.

Tell me, the professor, how this course is going for you so far? How do you find the material?

Skepticism offers the opportunity to doctoral learners the ability to consider the need for proof, the need to consider arguments and be prepared to address them. This

Preference, discussion and feedback are important, because different students have diverse opinions, backgrounds, fears, perspectives, expectations and questions. Eventually, more discussions and feedback allow more understanding for both instructor and learner. They actually allow the instructor to evaluate students. Sometimes the questions asked are more towards an insight or a goal the student or the instructor is trying to reach. For

In conclusion, it would help a student make an appropriate choice of a teacher and their course if a student were offered a description or outside opinions. Many learn by different ways and if a description of how the teacher taught could help a student learn faster and understand the course a lot better. It would help him or her know if they have similar interest to the teacher of specific

I believe that a good teacher should incorporate more that just academic issues. There also needs to be a great deal of learning

This was by far the most challenging course that I have encountered while obtaining my Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from UCMO. That is not a negative comment as this course has actually impacted me professionally more than any other course I’ve taken to date. This course has taken more time to complete the assignments, more of my attention to detail, and more of my creativity. The last point was the best part about this course. I consider myself to be fairly creative and this course definitely allowed me to do that while bringing my somewhat odd personality to a professional forum. For this I am grateful. Let’s get to the good stuff, shall we?

In monitoring my behavior, I will buy a calendar and a journal and write an X on everyday of the calendar in which I accomplished my scheduled time of sleep. In the journal, I will record what I did wrong on the days I didn’t accomplish the task of sleeping at the scheduled time. I will buy the calendar this weekend and I already have a journal. I will begin this plan at the same time I begin having a timer for my scheduled bed time which is on July 17th. A reward for this intention will be a record of all the calendars I’ve used in reaching this goal, it’ll show how far I’ve come.

Throughout this semester we read numerus of text relating to this semester enduring question “what do we know, and how can we know our understanding is reliable?” with this question in hand I would like to us two text to explore this question. The first text being “In the Grove,” by Akutagawa the second text being “The Return of Martin Guerre” by Natalie Zemon Davis. Both books have multiple people telling multiple stories hence what do we know and how do we know what is true form who is telling us these things. The different tales we hear in both stories exemplifies different methods for pursing knowledge.

The final section is a summary of learning acquired from the assignment that is useful to the author’s own

When considering truth, there are some theories that help distinguish the different viewpoints and how to determine falsehoods. The correspondence theory is one of them; it states that what corresponds to the world should determine what is considered the truth or falsehood of a statement or proposition (Pecorino, 2000). This theory is saying that we should look at how the proposition defines the world, and if it makes sense, then it is true; facts must correspond to propositions to be truthful. It is a valuable tool that most questionable propositions can be ‘plugged’ into and roughly confirmed, based on the human experience of the world. There are some problems with this theory, however, surrounding

It would be better if the teacher is able to find common topics to chat with the students. This would let the students feel like they can relate better to the teacher.

Knowledge, as we all understand, can be general or specialized. We are able to gather knowledge about certain aspects of reality, branches of science, skills, traits and phenomena observable in nature. But there is another kind of “knowledge”, which is the sum of every subcategoric, specific knowledge. This knowledge is what we know about the “world” - how knowledgeable we are, how well can we navigate the seas of reality because of our knowledge about its currents, flows and hidden reefs.