Bilology
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- Scientific method
- research question, hypothesis, experimental design, data collection, and interpretation followed by peer review
- hypothesis
- tentative prediction that guides investigation
- research question
- observation
- controlled
- everything constant except variable to be measured
- Inductive reasoning
- (bottom up) take examples and figure out pattern
- deductive reasoning
- top-down move from general to specific
- null hypothesis
- disproved hypothesis
- hallmark
- testable hypothesis
- environment
- circumstances and conditions that surround an organisim and social and cultural feelings that affect individuals and the community
- Conservation
- plato
- theory of conservation
- earth is a living entity
- Pragmatic (untilitarian)
- Roosevelt and perkins
- Pragmatic theory
- concerned with power to transform
- moral and aesthetic consrvation
- Muir
- moral and aesthtic theory
- right to other organisms on earth
- Modern conservation
- Rachael carson (introduce modern day environmentalism
- GAIA
- Jame Lovelock
- theory of GAIA
- world as a superior organism
- Optimism
- technology will beat out disaster
- Cornucopian fallacy
- gives false sense of security
- Pessimism
- neo-malthusian the world is one of scarcity and competition, too many people fight for the same resource
- Universalists
- plato- right and wrong are fixed
- relativists
- aristotle always puts situation into context
- Domination
- anthropocentric (world is for us to use)
- Stewardship
- partners to sustain life and culture
- Nihilist
- just instinct and urge to exist
- Biocentric
- all living things whether useful or not
- animal rights (PETA)
- people for ethical treatment of animals
- eccocentric
- whole is worth more parts