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 Topic: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 15 Views: 2196 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:45 pm Subject: Fukuyama's "End of History" |
| What exactly is Fukuyama’s hypothesis/thesis in your own words? Does he make a convincing, well-proven case? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
How might the ideas apply to your final project? ... |
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| Topic: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 17 Views: 960 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:49 pm Subject: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
| Before I write anything, I just wanted to warn that I'm pretty sure that I didn't grasp much of the reading. Anyway...
Einstein's insight about light was that he proposed that all motion was relative ... |
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| Topic: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 17 Views: 863 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:26 pm Subject: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
| Newton and his official invention of the scientific method were groundbreaking. He had real evidence from experiments to back his ideas up. Faraday and Maxwell both established their ideas and they al ... | |
| Topic: Contat and Cats |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 21 Views: 968 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:50 pm Subject: Contat and Cats |
| I would agree with Noah when he says that Contat is not a historian, but a historical story teller. I wouldn't reason that because he didn't tell "good" history.... I would say that since hi ... | |
| Topic: Philosophies and Methodologies of Science and History |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 17 Views: 872 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:34 pm Subject: Philosophies and Methodologies of Science and History |
| History has changed from a record of past events to finding patterns in human events. Analysis is also brought into the picture, as well as questioning. Science shifted from a way to explain the unkno ... | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 20 Views: 904 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:17 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel |
| Cause and Effect
Hobbes believed that every effect had a cause, and that those causes always had the same effect. He didn't believe that people needed experience, just logic. Hume believed that " ... |
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| Topic: Galileo |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 19 Views: 889 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:15 pm Subject: Galileo |
| What is the role of experience and “authorities”?
How are we able to know what we know? Galileo really valued experience. He believed, unlike Sarsi, that even if the past says one thing, your exp ... |
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| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 22 Views: 1267 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:14 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| My definition of history is past events that are connected to someone or something, and they been recorded and studied.
Even though I really like the way the Herodotus recounts history, I have to ... |
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| Topic: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
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| Emma Rochon Replies: 21 Views: 1059 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:01 pm Subject: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
| What is Aristotle’s view of reality, and how does it differ from Plato’s?
Plato viewed reality as flawed. He believed that the forms on our Earth were imitations of the perfect form. Aristotle disa ... |
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