HONR 2300 FQ24 Padlet Board by Charlene Brecevic

Astrology - Science or Not? You Decide :]

cbrecevic — 2024-10-01 20:55:55 UTC

The Telescope

cbrecevic — 2024-10-10 22:01:09 UTC

Here is the link to the short documentary clip we watched in class, just in case you share this man's LOVE for Galileo and telescopes :D

What does a ciliate look like, exactly?

cbrecevic — 2024-10-10 22:03:18 UTC

Here is the link to the short microcosmos video we watched in class. Remember, things are not always as they appear!

2024-10-11 05:08:33 UTC

I feel like in gen bio they really make a point to say that everything about a protein's function is reliant on it's shape. It made me think of in class when it was mentioned that we're really only seeing something from one singular perspective when using microscopes, and how we base a lot of truths that we get from that. That made me wonder how many other functions of proteins we just don't know about because maybe we aren't able to see it's shape fully from different perspectives.

2024-10-11 06:52:39 UTC

Today in class we discussed how the different tools and perspectives through which we view life shape our realities. I thought this article offered an interesting example of the way the quality of a microscope can affect what is able to be seen through them, which can shape the user's fundamental understanding of the way the world is constructed. It also offers a social example of reality not aligning with appearance.

Magic vs. Science

2024-10-11 06:59:41 UTC

We talked briefly about magic versus science during out discussion of Corpuscularianism and ways we can define each term: "magic" as divine incorporation in the world and marveling at God, whereas "science" is a modern term and tool to understand what the world is. It's interesting to see how theology and science are both tools to "understand what the world is." Perhaps the line between science and theology is not as concrete as we are led to believe, if using this definition of science.

2024-10-16 04:52:57 UTC

Talking about Bacon's four different idols made me wonder what types of scientific bias still exists today in a more modern context. When I was looking at this article, something that caught my eye was this thing called Gray literature bias. It's basically when people are defending their theses for their PhD, they tend to use smaller or statistically insignificant effects.

2024-10-23 05:42:51 UTC

I thought this was interesting because in this video it talks about how Descartes proposed that we would know we aren't dreaming because we would have receipts about what we were doing and we would be able to list a chain of events. It's frustrating though because we would also consider that maybe we were dreaming of ourselves doing that confirmation test.

Wax Metaphor

2024-10-23 06:01:04 UTC

Seeing this (quite darling) Peanuts comic made me think about Descartes's wax metaphor--Lucy finds Schroeder to be cute because he is cute, not because he has certain qualities/properties that make him cute. Similarly, Descartes notes that wax is wax because it is wax, not because of its ability to melt, hard-like texture, or amber color. Descartes reminds us to be skeptical of our senses as they change (misinform) our perception of the world.

2024-10-23 06:54:27 UTC

I thought this video provided a helpful overview of Cartesian skepticism and the Meditations that helped clarify some of the questions that came up in class today.

Land Back!

cbrecevic — 2024-11-07 21:06:17 UTC

A contemporary take on cosmological differences among colonialists and indigenous nations

2024-11-08 05:46:43 UTC

I found this meme and it reminded me of how influential Locke's ideas are in the U.S. today. He justified horrible things like colonialism, yet he also managed to get into the Declaration of Independence which is ironic.

Lockean State of Nature

2024-11-08 06:52:04 UTC

This meme made me think of our discussion of Locke's state of nature with the absence of a centralized government and property rights. We talked about an "anything goes" attitude under Locke's state of nature, and this meme has Lockean ideals of freedom/natural rights as "minding your business is free." The broke part is just funny, but maybe Locke would argue that people need to cultivate the land to expand one's private property and therefore, gain wealth.

Dystopian Anatomical Theaters

2024-11-15 02:22:39 UTC

I linked an article describing the architecture in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as future president Snow's classroom closely resembles the anatomical theaters we discussed in class. The article explains that the movie's sets are intentionally influenced by various time periods, such as Germany during WWII or a 1960s game show, to displace its watchers and make the audience realize that we will live in a dystopian society if we do not learn from history. The classroom is in a "Federalist-stye tempietto," like the anatomical theaters that displayed dissections--maybe the enjoyment of watching animal dissections is also dystopian...

Holding Space for Newton

2024-11-27 05:46:05 UTC

Our class discussion on some of Newton's major contributions--optics, absolute space, and interrupted force--reminded me of the cast of Wicked's response to an interviewer telling them that people are "holding space for 'Defying Gravity.'" Although it is unclear what the interviewer meant by "holding space" for the song, Erivo and Grande went along with it just as Christians in 17th century England followed Newton's message that God is present in absolute space. Perhaps Newton was holding space for Christians and modified his argument to include them as a result of people's fear in atheism.

2024-11-27 05:58:58 UTC

Today in class we discussed Isaac Newton and some of his contributions to science. This video provides more information on Newton.

Epic Rap Battle- Eastern Philosophers vs Western Philosophers

2024-12-03 19:08:55 UTC

Duhemian Underdetermination

2024-12-04 00:53:16 UTC

This meme reminded me of our discussion on Duhemian underdetermination and the realization that intermediary conditions can impact conclusions. From my understanding, Duhemian Underdetermination is the rejection of quickly denying that hypotheses are false, but that the conditions to prove the hypothesis to be true was set up incorrectly (or in a way that would not facilitate a desired product). Gibby's encouragement to not give up reminds us that our hypotheses may be right, but that the conditions are not set up the "right" way; we do not always have to take no for an answer!

2024-12-04 01:35:19 UTC

Today in class we talked about Kant and how he didn't believe that people would be able to attain direct knowledge from the world around us because we see it through a human lens. I saw this meme and I thought it was funny cuz I grew up watching Scooby Doo.

A cool song I found (Oyasumination)

2024-12-05 07:24:00 UTC

I don't mean this for my participation or anything, I just found a really cool song that relates to the class (relating to the folly of unrestricted scientific progress and its meaninglessness). Please enjoy!!!