Common sense in philosophical and scientific perspective
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The document discusses common sense from philosophical and scientific perspectives. Philosophers like Plato believed true knowledge comes from reason beyond appearances, while Descartes assessed the role of first principles of common sense. Scientifically, Aristotle viewed science as moving from observations to general connections, while later scientists like Kepler, Galileo and Newton founded modern science by distrusting sense experience. Cognitive scientists believe the mind has intuitive theories for understanding the world. As educators, teachers must manage analytical thinking to apply common sense in lessons for student understanding, and teacher management is important for coordinating individual efforts to accomplish goals.
Common sense in philosophical and scientific perspective
- 1. Common Sense in Philosophical and Scientific Perspective
- 3. Philosophical Perspective Plato- true knowledge is a function of reason going beyond the world of appearances and everyday experience to an abstract, ideal realm of the forms of absolute being. Herbert of Cherbury & Rene Descartes a new traditon of philosophical thinking emerged in the early modern period that began to assess the role played by first principles of common sense in our intellectual and social life.
- 4. Scientific Perspective Aristotle- science for Aristotle was an activity of moving from the givens of sense of experience, through inductive observations of particulars, to the general causal connections that bind everything together into one system of nature.
- 5. Kepler, Galileo, Boyle, Newton and Bacon- scientific thought from its roots in common sense experience, reinstating rupture between the two that began with the pre-Socratics and Plato. Modern science was founded in part on a distrust of ordinary sense experience and appearances in favor of corpuscular, idealized and mathematical truths. The world of everyday exp. needed to be re examined, tested, transcended, put on the rack and reduced to invisible forces and minute particles in order to be understood.
- 6. Steven Pinker- many cognitive scientist believe that the mind is equipped with innate intuitive theories or modules for the major ways of making sense of the world.
- 7. Modern Management Theory As a future educator in social studies we must managed our deeply analytical thinking order to apply common sense in our lessons so that our students easily understand the lesson. The role of the teacher as a manager is very important. It forms a organize class to accomplish aims and objectives they could not accomplish as individual, so managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individual efforts.
- 8. Prepared by: Bartolome, Lorriene Daisog, Leony Purisima, Sheena Rhea Pusa, Francisco III- H BSE Social Studies University of Makati