PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Psychology, Empiricism
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We tend to think of science as attempting to offer descriptions of reality. Philosophy is often distinguished from this in that it is traditionally considered to be a. Normative" discipline: attempts to determine how we ought" to reason, or how we ought" to think about things. Level 0: phenomena, events- how we talk about or attempt to give an. Level 1: sciences: descriptive accounts of science. As a sub-discipline: social science and natural science. Social science then broke down into anti-naturalist and naturalist. His goal is to explain suicidal phenomena- offers something like a law-like regularity, factual conditions, with the conclusion as the event that we can explain. Phenomena that seeks explanation: protestants are more prone to committing suicide rather than catholics. To make sense of that kind of question, we need to know how do be approach the natural sciences, understand that methodology so that we can whether or not it is applicable.
