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Human Sciences
What are the methods of gaining knowledge in the human sciences and what are their limitations?
What are the methods and purpose of sharing knowledge (such as results of studies) to a wider public?
How do theories once accepted as “true” become obsolete and what are implications of paradigm shift?
What makes a hypothesis “good”?
How do human scientists identify patterns in human behavior and what are the implications of understanding those
patterns?
If a hypothesis “fails” to what extent is it still relevant?
What are the differences between a scientific hypothesis, theory, model, and law?
How do human scientists use truth tests?
How much evidence is necessary to declare something as “true”?
How do cultural assumptions and biases affect the human scientist?
Is what ways does society benefit, suffer from, reject, ignore, or embrace scientific claims in the human sciences?
What distinguishes a “soft” science from a “hard” science? Is there a hierarchy of sciences?
To what extent can economics be deemed a science?
To what extent are people’s beliefs shaped by their environment? Their characters?
To what extent do you think one can change one’s character, and to what extent do you think one has to live with it?
Is free will an illusion?
Does determinism undermine ethics? Is free will compatible with determinism?
To what extent can desires be controlled?
To what extent can behavior be predicted?
To what extent can a “group” have a character that is distinct from the individuals that make it up?
What are generalizations about human behavior and why have they been propagated? How do they hinder us?
What is the role of emotion in economics?
Can we assume that human beings are rational animals?
To what extent does observing human beings affect their behavior?
To what extent can questionnaires be written in a neutral language?
How can a social scientist avoid becoming emotionally involved?
To what extent can we measure human phenomena?
Do we learn more about human nature from psychology or literature?
How do ethical factors limit experiments in the human sciences?