Essential Questions

  • I. How Do We Know What We Know?
  • II. What Are The Problems of Knowledge?
  • III. What is the role of Perception in attaining Knowledge?
  • IV. How does Language influence how he gain Knowledge?
  • V. How does our use of Reason help or hinder us as we attempt to gain knowledge?
  • VI. Is Emotion the best way to gain knowledge?

Knowers and Knowing IV

September 15

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From the website, please read Introduction and 1st Chapter (PDF File) from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.

Please click here to read: http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore_excerpt.pdf

Did any information in the book come as a surprise to you? If so, why do you think that specific piece of knowledge was kept from you? Does the producer of this knowledge have any responsibility? What is your responsibility as a knower?


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