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Knowledge Questions The Good, the Bad and The Ugly

Knowledge Questions The Good, the Bad and The Ugly. To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions?. What are the criteria for each of these categories? What makes a good knowledge question good?. How can we use models to predict crime waves?.

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Knowledge Questions The Good, the Bad and The Ugly

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  1. Knowledge QuestionsThe Good, the Bad and The Ugly

  2. To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions? What are the criteria for each of these categories? What makes a good knowledge question good? How can we use models to predict crime waves? Will police crime predictions turn out to be correct? How can we prevent crime?

  3. What is it about a scientific explanation that makes it convincing or unconvincing? What are the criteria for each of these categories? What makes a good knowledge question good? How can we decide if acupuncture works or not? Does acupuncture work? Traditional Medicine

  4. What is it about a scientific explanation that makes it convincing or unconvincing? How can we decide if acupuncture works or not? Does acupuncture work? Traditional Medicine

  5. To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions? How can we use models to predict crime waves? Will police crime predictions turn out to be correct? How can we prevent crime?

  6. ? Should we believe paranormal claims? Does the paranormal exist? The Sixth Sense

  7. ? ? Is swine flu likely to ill millions? What do we mean by an‘epidemic’?

  8. ? ? ? The credit crisis

  9. Your own ideas?

  10. Good Knowledge questions are: • Open questions explicitly about Knowledge per se and not about subject-specific claims; they are broader than the real-life situation, and so can easily be connected to other examples • Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values.

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