Thursday 6 March 2014

Campus Session 6th March

Hi everyone! 

Today I attended the 2nd campus session of the year. I had my first ever lecture from Alan Durant and discussed Module 2 and our progress. 

(brief summary)

The lecture was about Positionality - thinking of where you are in context. You have to think about how you are viewing a situation from the outside, or from which angle. 
Different methods like surveys and interviews will result in different answers. It depends on if you're looking for a broad result or if you're delving deeper into a subject. 

We learnt about the different accounts of knowledge
- Metaphysics
- Rationalism 
- Empiricism
- Pragmatism

How we come to make sense of things depends on where we are coming from. 

The Knowledge Landscape ( created by Alan ) 

- Theology (Supernatural) - cannot be explained naturally
- Humanities (analytical, critical, speculative) 
- Natural Sciences (demonstrable truths)
- Social Sciences (demonstrable qualities) 

The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self - Daniel Kathneman 
'All of our experiences pass away forever...only our memories that we make remain'

Alan is going to post a blog about the whole lecture with more information.






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