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Natural Sciences
How do theories once accepted as “true” become obsolete and what are implications of paradigm shift?
What makes a hypothesis “good”?
How “public” is scientific knowledge and what are the implications?
What are the tools and methods of the natural scientist and what are their limitations?
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 scientists use truth tests?
How much evidence is necessary to declare something as “true”?
How much evidence should there be, and what kind of evidence do we need, before we are repared to accept there is a causal link between two events?
How can we distinguish pseudo-scientific claims from the claims of the sciences?
Is what ways does society benefit, suffer from, reject, ignore, or embrace scientific claims?
Is there a logic of scientific discovery?
How far do expectations influence observations?
What role do metaphors play in science?
What does biology tell us about the emotions?
What role does emotion play in the scientist’s work?
Is the book of nature written in the language of math?
How do the human sciences differ from the natural sciences?
To what extent should scientists know about the history of their subjects?
What role does imagination play in the sciences?
To what extent can mathematical concepts be used to determine beauty in nature?
What are the moral/ ethical responsibilities of scientists?
Why do humans seek to describe and explain the physical world?
What role does classification play in this Area of Knowledge?
How has technology affected the natural sciences and what are the implications?