Unit 3: Optional theme — Epistemology
Topic 3.3: Application of knowledge Questions
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Fill the gap: the deepest danger of censorship isn't the odd banned book — it's who holds the ______.
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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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True or false? On the Article 27 view, access to knowledge is a favour the powerful may choose to grant.
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What is the difference between a right and a favour, here?
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Freire's 'banking' model of education is:
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How can technology commit a kind of epistemic injustice (Fricker)?
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True or false? Foucault thinks knowledge is a neutral tool that power merely borrows.
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'Knowledge and power are tangled together' means that:
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Why is education never fully neutral?
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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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The strongest worry about censorship is that:
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The central question of 'access to knowledge' is:
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Why is dismissing meditation and oral traditions NOT a neutral move?
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The 'digital divide' is the reason that:
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Fricker's 'epistemic injustice' is:
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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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How can knowledge be denied even without an outright ban?
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The question 'whose ways of knowing count?' is really asking:
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Foucault's 'power/knowledge' is the idea that:
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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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