Learning
Which one came first?
What is Philosophy?
As an academic discipline
No academic discipline without philosophy
As a study or inquiry
Asking question to verify nature, idea, theory
etc.
Type of Knowledge
Analyze your subject and provide an example of:
The fundamental knowledge of the subject
Justifying the concept, fact, belief, procedure of the
knowledge
Evaluating the value of the knowledge
Epistemology
How to justify?
Axiology
What is value?
Branches of Philosophy
Metaphysics
Study about matter (real)
The study of the universal principles that govern
our universe
School of Metaphysics is a place to discover,
explore, and put principles into action for best of
life
Substantive knowledge of the subject
Branches of Philosophy
Epistemology
Branches of Philosophy
Two types of epistemology
Personal epistemology:
Personal views about own knowledge and learning
Public epistemology:
Includes a student's ideas about the nature of knowledge
and learning for the community as a whole, or for a
specific discipline / community
The epistemologies can differ significantly and affect learning
behavior far more profoundly. Yet many studies do not make
this distinction.
Quality of Description
Phenomenology
Public
Epistemology
Experience
?
Hermeneutics
Interpretation
Personal Epistemology
Reasoning
(Formal)
Common
Sense reasoning
Use to understand
Physics Phenomena
Failure to understand
Branches of Philosophy
Axiology
Explores the nature of value (What is value?)
The study of the nature, types, and criteria of values
and value judgments
Ethics
Aesthetics
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Axiology