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Homework answers / question archive / University of Ontario Institute of Technology COMM 1050U uNIT 2 : WHOSE KNOWLEDGE? WHOSE POWER? Q1: According to Brian Martin, to be considered an expert, one must first be able to do this: Cook a pizza Pretend to know everything about a particular domain of knowledge a      Learn how to submit to those in authority a      Be smarter than everyone else b All of the above   Q2: According to Brian Martin, it is important to recognize that expertise is like charisma in this sense: a      It is bestowed or given by others, not something someone inherently possesses It is a sign of above average intelligence It is something that some people have and some do not c        Non of these answers d     Answers 1&2   Q3: According to Heather Douglas, through a variety of measures, the Canadian government is trying to do this

University of Ontario Institute of Technology COMM 1050U uNIT 2 : WHOSE KNOWLEDGE? WHOSE POWER? Q1: According to Brian Martin, to be considered an expert, one must first be able to do this: Cook a pizza Pretend to know everything about a particular domain of knowledge a      Learn how to submit to those in authority a      Be smarter than everyone else b All of the above   Q2: According to Brian Martin, it is important to recognize that expertise is like charisma in this sense: a      It is bestowed or given by others, not something someone inherently possesses It is a sign of above average intelligence It is something that some people have and some do not c        Non of these answers d     Answers 1&2   Q3: According to Heather Douglas, through a variety of measures, the Canadian government is trying to do this

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University of Ontario Institute of Technology

COMM 1050U

uNIT 2 : WHOSE KNOWLEDGE? WHOSE POWER?

Q1: According to Brian Martin, to be considered an expert, one must first be able to do this:

  1. Cook a pizza
  2. Pretend to know everything about a particular domain of knowledge

a      Learn how to submit to those in authority

a      Be smarter than everyone else b All of the above

 

Q2: According to Brian Martin, it is important to recognize that expertise is like charisma in this sense:

a      It is bestowed or given by others, not something someone inherently possesses

  1. It is a sign of above average intelligence
  2. It is something that some people have and some do not c        Non of these answers

d     Answers 1&2

 

Q3: According to Heather Douglas, through a variety of measures, the Canadian government is trying to do this.

a      Control people through technocracy

a      Muzzle government scientists

a      Breed cuter puppies b      All of these answers

c      None of these answers

 

Q4: According to Leon Wieseltier, this is the real agenda or goal of those 'scientizers' who advocate for consilience between the humanities and sciences. (got wrong on quiz/test)

  1. To fight against religious dogmatism

 

  1. To see if 10,000 monkeys on 10,000 typewriters could actually eventually re-create War and Peace

a      To 'invade' the liberal arts (be reducing all questions to scientific terms).

a      To climb Mount Kilimanjaro b        Non of these answers

 

Q5: According to Brian Martin, this is one of the key problems with experts:

a      Experts always yammer loudly about things they know little about. b        Expertise is complicit in advancing the cause of slavery

c      Experts never know what they are talking about

a      Experts are oriented to serve powerful people and groups rather than to non-experts

a      None of these answers

 

Q6: As we saw in our readings, Leon Wieseltier believes that no humanist in their right mind wants this:

a      Consilience

  1. War
  2. Religious fundamentalism c        Peace

d     Non of these answers

 

Q7: According to Steven Pinker, the moral view of any scientifically literate person requires this:

a      A mathematically-sound conception of the universe

a      A radical break from religious conceptions of meaning and value

  1. A worldwide in which science and religion remain 'non-overlapping 'Magisteria' (i.e.: good fences make good neighbours)
  2. All of these answers
  3. None of these answers

 

Q8: According to Steven Pinker, science contains an explicit commitment to the following two ideals:

a      1-Kittens; 2-Puppies b      1-Truth; 2-Verity

c      1-Epistomology; 2-Ontology

a      1-The world is intelligible; 2-The acquisition of knowledge is hard

a      None of these answers.

 

Q9: According to Steven Pinker, science is currently under attack from these two fractions/groups:

a      Religious Fundamentalists and the (academic) Humanities

  1. Crackpots and Video games
  2. University Deans and Popular Writers c        Clowns and Terrorists

d     Liberals and Atheists

Q10: As we saw in class, Plato used this (symbolic) picture with words to describe the ascent of the philosopher from ignorance into the light of truth.

  1. Reason rather than emotion

 

  1. Moral truths
  2. The Philosopher's stone
  3. The Allegory of the Cave a             
  4. None of these answers

 

Q11: As we saw in our lecture, Leon Wieseltier is particularly worried about increasing call by scientizers (like Pinker) for this:

  1. Terrorism
  2. Religious Fundamentalists

a      Consilience

  1. Moral truths
  2. None of these answers

 

Q12: In lecture, we examined the ongoing intellectual struggle that has been going on between the Philosophers and the Sophists. According to the Sophists the following does not exist.

a      Moral Truths

  1. Epistemology
  2. Reality and Power

c      Happy People

d     None of these answers

 

 

 

 

 

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