Unit 3: Optional theme — Epistemology
Topic 3.3: Application of knowledge Questions
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Why is technology central to the whole topic of 'application of knowledge'?
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Fill the gap: Fricker calls being dismissed as a knower — because of who you are — an epistemic ______.
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Fill the gap: whether technology narrows or widens the knowledge gap depends on ______, not the gadget itself.
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Foucault's 'power/knowledge' is the idea that:
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Fill the gap: Plato would ______ knowledge with a wise few, while Freire would ______ it to free the many.
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'Knowledge and power are tangled together' means that:
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True or false? Foucault thinks knowledge is a neutral tool that power merely borrows.
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Why is education never fully neutral?
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True or false? On the Article 27 view, access to knowledge is a favour the powerful may choose to grant.
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Why is dismissing meditation and oral traditions NOT a neutral move?
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Freire's 'banking' model of education is:
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What is the difference between a right and a favour, here?
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The 'digital divide' is the reason that:
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True or false? On its own, driven by profit and existing power, technology tends to WIDEN the knowledge gap.
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How does technology connect to Foucault's 'power/knowledge'?
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On Plato's view, who should hold real knowledge and rule?
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Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is used to argue that:
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Which are examples of ways of knowing often waved away?
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True or false? Being different from written, experimental science is the same as being false.
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The strongest worry about censorship is that:
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