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Nastasia and Rakow's Four Models of Theory - ANSWER Puzzle-solving
(science)
Puzzle-solving (investigation)
Puzzle-making (interpretation)
Puzzle-making (inquiry)
Puzzle-solving (science): description + goal - ANSWER Description: Positivist
epistemology
- The world exists independently of our knowledge of it, and we can know it
exhaustivley
Goal:
- Describe the world, make predictions
We should describe the world in order to make predications about it.
Puzzle-solving (science): critiques - ANSWER - This approach gives the
scientific community undue authority to decide which problems are worthy
of attention
- It excludes other ways of knowing the world
- It essentializes its objects of study
, Puzzle-solving (investigation): description + goal - ANSWER Description:
Neo-positivist epistemology
The world exists independently of our knowledge of it, but we cannot know
it exhaustively
Goal:
- Refine thoeries, make predictions
- We must refine out explanations (they will never be complete) in order to
make predications.
Puzzle-solving (investigation): critiques - ANSWER - This approach describes
surface phenomena but not the forces that underlie them.
- It also privledges a certain ways of knowing at the expense of others.
Puzzle-making (interpretation): description + goal - ANSWER Description:
Constructivist epistemology
- We do not all experience the world in the same way
- We create it symolically as we study it.
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