Module 1 : Science as Culture Social Context of the Production of Scientific Knowledge

Lecture 1 : Methods of Science: Issues and Perspectives


Questions

 1. What is inductivism?

 2. What is hypothesism?

3.   Who is the founder of inductivism?

4.   Who is the founder of hypothesism? 5. What is the basis of inductivism?

 6. What is the basis of hypothesism?

 7. What are the hallmarks of scientific knowledge in the inductivist schema?

 8. What are the hallmarks of scientific knowledge according to hypothesism?

 9. How did Hume challenge the principle of induction?

  10. Discuss Mill's rules or methods of inductive logic.

  11. Critically examine the central tenets of positivism with suitable examples.

 12. What is fact-value dichotomy?

  13. What is methodological monism?

  14. What is deductive nomologism?

15. ‘Observations presuppose theory'. Comment.

  16. What is systematic verifiability?