1. Name of Course/Module: Research Method 2. Course Code: BT 21603 Research Method 3. Name(s) of academic staff: Dr. Janice L. H. Nga (Room No. 10‚ Level 3‚ SPE. Ext. 1640‚ Email: janice@ums.edu.my;janicenga@yahoo.com) Dr. Zakariya Belkhamza (Room No. 26‚ Level 3‚ SPE. Ext. 1555‚ Email: zakariya@ums.edu.my) 4. Rationale for the inclusion of the course/module in the programme Doing research is an important activity of the for today’s business environment. Business and economics
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More on the problem of the external world In his paper about the problem of the external world Stroud’s conclusion is that we can’t prove we are not dreaming. He takes as he calls it‚ a ‘sceptical’ standpoint by saying that there is not solution to the problem of the external world. There are two main objections to Stroud’s position towards the skeptics like Descartes. First‚ saying there is not solution to the problem of the external world is just as skeptic and it does not take us anywhere. Second
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Dr. C. George Boeree‚ a retired professor from Shippensburg University and a fan of Piaget defines genetic epistemology as “the study of the development of knowledge”. Piaget’s theories mainly revolved around children and how they learn throughout the different stages or their lives. He believed that the young did not need any inspiration from adults to learn‚ but
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associations made out of habit and hold no necessity of truth. Though he acknowledges that philosophy did not yet have the tools to place necessity on causal relations‚ in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics‚ Immanuel Kant argues that it is possible to do so. By reworking the frame of metaphysics‚ introducing synthetic‚ a priori knowledge‚ Kant avoids coming to Hume’s skeptical conclusions. Hume believes that philosophy has falsely arrived at its argument of objectivity. Specifically‚ causality
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Piaget identified himself as a genetic epistemologist. "What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge‚ since its elementary forms‚ following to the next levels‚ including also the scientific knowledge‚" he explained in his book Genetic Epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the origin‚ nature‚ extent‚ and limits of human knowledge. He was interested not only in the nature of thought‚ but in how it develops
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of Hylomorphism”‚ the metaphysics of the early scholastics is presented to show the similarities and differences between what Descartes was taught through scholasticism and what he came to refute. Through analysis of the article I will present what Descartes considered to be the central ideas of scholastic metaphysics‚ as well as show what he chose reject from that doctrine‚ why he chose to reject it‚ and what he chose to retain‚ in the development of Cartesian metaphysics. The central ideas
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structures were treated differently‚ judged and sometimes overlooked. Europe and Europeans are known for the knowledge that has been created and carried on. The Euro-Americans values in social structure are a big part in the culture of modernity. Epistemology‚ studies the nature of knowledge. Patricia Hill Collins focused on the politics of race and gender and how it influenced knowledge. Collins believes that black women are uniquely situated. She analyzed and studied how black woman stand on principles
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Tcwhiny & T~~uder khm~rron‚ Printed in Great Britam Vol 9‚ No. 4. pp. 431-438‚ 1993 0742-051X:93 S6.00 + 000 Prrpamon Press LLd REFLECTIVE TEACHER EDUCATION: TECHNIQUE OR EPISTEMOLOGY? HUGH MUNBY and TOM Ontario‚ RUSSELL Canada Queen’s University‚ AN ESSAY-REVIEW OF REFLECTIVE TEACHER CASES AND CRITIQUES NY: State University EDUCATION: Linda Valli (Ed.) (1992). Albany‚ of New York Press (ISBN O-7914- 1131 1) “Where do you come
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movement of abstraction. The liberal arts also helps one to understand the divisions of philosophy: natural philosophy‚ moral philosophy‚ and metaphysics. Natural philosophy seeks to know the nature and cause of things that populate the physical world and moral philosophy studies human action and its relationship to goal of human action‚ happiness. Metaphysics‚ also known as “theology” by Aquinas‚ concerns itself with the ultimate causes and principles of things. Theology illuminates the philosophical
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Treatise? And‚ lastly‚ is Hume’s theory on knowledge persuasive‚ or do his arguments crumble under greater scrutiny? In the section at hand‚ Hume attempts to offer his standard for epistemological certainty‚ presumably in response to René Descartes’ epistemology—his fusion of clear and distinct perceptions with innate ideas. Hume‚ in 1.3.1 of the Treatise‚ asserts “there is no single phenomenon‚ even the most simple‚ which can be accounted for from the qualities of the objects‚ as they appear to us‚ for
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