COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Martin Heidegger, Oncology, Determinism
28 Feb 2014
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Determinism : assumption that human behavior is governed by forces beyond individual control, biological determinists: Free will : humans make choices about how to act based on their individual interpretations of experience/meaning. The branch of philosophy that studies how we know : objectivity: These theorists suggest there is a singular truth and it"s a researcher"s obligation to find it: subjectivity: None of which are truer than any other. Researchers are participating in the making of meaning. Rather than simply finding or discovering the truth. In coms there is a bias toward subjectivity. Researchers cannot divorce themselves from their background and values to conduct research. Should a theory be laws or rules based: universal laws: Tends to be more applicable to the natural sciences than to human behavior. Some believe the purpose for theorizing is to find these universal laws: situated rules: Observable patterns and regularities in how people act in certain circumstances.
