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Human Science

Human Science. Kimberly Dinehart Theodore Koepf Isabella Stokes Emma Sullivan. Particular Kinds of Claims. People’s behavior changes over time Behavior can be inconsistent unlike most natural sciences Have to outsmart subjects There are patterns in behavior

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Human Science

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  1. Human Science Kimberly Dinehart Theodore Koepf Isabella Stokes Emma Sullivan

  2. Particular Kinds of Claims • People’s behavior changes over time • Behavior can be inconsistent unlike most natural sciences • Have to outsmart subjects • There are patterns in behavior • Soldiers coming back from war can experience PTSD • Depends on factors that cannot be controlled

  3. Justifications and Methods • Interviews • Observations • Placebo • Double Blind Study • Consistency across multiple subjects • Psychotherapy – Pragmatic test • Coherence test

  4. Community and Experts • Human Science Community • Anthropologists • Sociologists • Psychologists • Economists • College Degree, Masters, Phd

  5. Justification of General Public • General Public is test subject—as well as scientists to some extent • Public contributes to theories as subjects as well as critiques and observers of their own behavior • Public helps determine whether or not the claim is true over the long run

  6. Influence on Knowledge Claims • History, Society, Economic Conditions, and culture all affect knowledge claims as they are studied in reference to how they affect Human behavior

  7. Particular Ways of Knowing • Sense perception relates to observation • Reason relates to developing patterns • Emotion is studied and affects results • Language is used to communicate with subjects, interviews

  8. Strengths • Scientists can relate to subjects • Always enough samples • Learn about self through studying others

  9. Weaknesses • Can’t reuse samples • Subjects cannot be mistreated, human ethics • Human behavior is inconsistent • Subjects are human as well as scientists/observers

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