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Ethics
What limits should we observe when experimenting on intelligent sentient beings such as octopuses? What about experiments on human beings - why should we impose a tough code of conduct for the experimenter...
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Knowledge and technology: ethics - responsibilities and obligations
When considering the knowledge questions related to the ethics of the relationship between knowledge and technology, two themes emerge. Firstly, what are the ethical values underpinning the development...
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Knowledge and technology: methods and tools - creation, storage and dissemination of knowledge
Technology can be a tool to help us acquire knowledge. It can be used to communicate knowledge we already have but also help us acquire new knowledge. It impacts all stages of knowledge development, creation,...
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Comparing the Human and Natural Sciences
The term 'Human Sciences' naturally invites a discussion of what is human about them and of course the degree to which each discipline is 'scientific'. This page explores the latter question. What do...
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The methods of Psychology and Economics
The disciplines that make up the Human Sciences are spectacularly diverse. Is it possible to speak of the methods and tools of such a varied body of knowledge? In the next two pages, we look at how knowledge...
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Big data in the Human Sciences
The term 'big data' is increasingly applied to everyday activities such as sport, web browsing patterns, monitoring health and so on. The term has a natural home in the human sciences where the systematic...
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Ethics and the Human Sciences
Suppose we want to find out what happens when we give almost unlimited power to one group of human beings over another. We want to do this in largely realistic way so we want to let things happen. But...
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What challenges do human scientists face?
The activities on this page allow students to explore the challenges faced by the Human Sciences. This lesson examines how knowledge is produced in the human sciences and what challenges human scientists...
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The Methods of the Human Sciences
What does it feel like to be a human scientist? What challenges do you face? How do you design an experiment to test a hypothesis about an observed effect? How do you avoid the problems of researcher...
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What is it to be a Human Science?
These activities are a first exploration of the diverse group of disciplines that are loosely termed the 'Human Sciences'. Students are invited to use sources produced by practitioners of the disciplines...