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 & Knowing II

September 5
Please copy and paste this question on to your blog and answer it:

From the website http://www.gladwell.com/ read the article from The New Yorker Archive, Do Parents Matter? (Aug. 17, 1998). Please click here to read: http://www.gladwell.com/1998/1998_08_17_a_harris.htm

Then, read another article by the same title, Do Parents Matter? from Levitt and Dubner's website relating to their book Freakonomics. http://freakonomicsbook.com/thebook/chapter.html Please click here to read: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-03-parents-edit_x.htm

How would Gladwell respond to the identity question from August 27th? How would Levitt and Dubner respond? Do you agree with their argument? Why or why not?

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