University of Ontario Institute of Technology

COMM 1050U

Impact of Science and Technology on Society

uNIT 1 : wHAT IS SCIENCE? wHO DECIDED WHAT IS TRUE?

Q1: According to Austin Hughes, science has difficulty answering each of these broad 'types' of questions.

a      Epistemology, Ontology, Knowledge b        None of these answers

a      Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics

a      Metaphysics, Ethics Knowledge b        Knowledge, Truth, Honesty

Q2: According to Joel Achenbach, one of the main reasons that many reasonable people doubt science is because whereas science appeals to our rational brain, our beliefs are still motivated my this.

a      Stupidity

a      Emotion

1. Love
2. Ignorance
3. All of the above

Q3: According to Michael Shermer, Karl Popper originally articulated this problem, which attempts to find criterion that distinguishes between science and pseudoscience.

a      The Fox and the Hound b        The Singularity Problem

a      The Demarcation Problem a        The Relativity Hypothesis b        None of these answers.

Q4: According to Peter Adkins, science equals truth for the following reason, among others.

a      All knowledge is reducible to numbers b        Science is always irrational

a      Science is free of irrational prejudice

a      What is knowledge in one place is not knowledge in another b        None of these answers

Q5: According to Stuart Firestein, science is not so much the pursuit of knowledge as the pursuit of this:

1. Truth