首页
登录
职称英语
Nord’s Net: "Ways of Knowing" for the Science Classroom I
Nord’s Net: "Ways of Knowing" for the Science Classroom I
游客
2024-10-16
40
管理
问题
Nord’s Net: "Ways of Knowing" for the Science Classroom
It is apparent that Professor Warren A. Nord has found Eddington’s parable of a fisherman’s net advantageous in supporting his side of an ongoing discussion about religion and science in school curricula. He has employed the story on a number of occasions in various articles. Readers should not carelessly absorb "Nord’s Net," however. Whenever any given allegory finds widespread and frequent employment in intellectual discussion, it deserves some scrutiny -- which is the purpose of this essay.
You may not be familiar with the net parable, so let’s have Nord himself acquaint you with the tale. The following is a quote that succinctly summarizes both the parable and Nord’s direct application of it. It comes from Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, by Nord and Haynes.
The astronomer Arthur Eddington once told a parable about a fisherman who used a net with a three- inch mesh. After a lifetime of fishing he concluded there were no fish shorter than three inches. Eddington’s moral is that just as one’s fishing net determines what one catches, so it is with conceptual nets: what we find in the ocean of reality depends on the conceptual net we bring to our investigation.
For example, the modern scientific conceptual net allows scientists to catch only replicable events; the results of any experiment that cannot be replicated are not allowed to stand. This means that miracles, which are by definition singular events, can’t be caught; scientists cannot ask God to replicate the miracle for the sake of a controlled experiment. Or, to take another example, the scientific method requires that evidence for knowledge claims be grounded in sense experience -- the kinds of experience that instruments can measure. But this rules out religious experience as a source of knowledge about the world.
First I will place Nord’s premises in the context of how two approaches to human understanding -- science’s "replicable events" approach to knowledge, and religion’s "miracles and religious experience" approach -- have interacted over the centuries. Maybe later, I will take up the educational ramifications of implementing his premises in public education. [br] Who is supposed to be the first to use the parable of Nord’s Net, according to this passage?
选项
A、Professor Warren A. Nord.
B、The astronomer Arthur Eddington.
C、Some ancient saga.
D、The author of this passage.
答案
B
解析
根据提问,查明是Professor Warren A .Nord引用The astronomer Arthur Eddington的寓言。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3803540.html
相关试题推荐
Although______Spanish,heattendedthecourse.A、hewasknowingB、heisknowingC
Oneoftheaimsofteachingscienceis,throughlearning,toenablestuden
Oneoftheaimsofteachingscienceis,throughlearning,toenablestuden
Oneoftheaimsofteachingscienceis,throughlearning,toenablestuden
Nord’sNet:"WaysofKnowing"fortheScienceClassroomI
Nord’sNet:"WaysofKnowing"fortheScienceClassroomI
Theyall______theirneighborimmediately,notknowingthatthissweet-lookingma
Theintroductionofcomputersintoclassroomhasgreatlychangedthetraditi
Itisacommonthemeinmanysciencefictionstoriesthattheworldmayoneday
Knowingisdiscipline-specific;itdefinesallthosethingswecometolearn
随机试题
WhatdoesthewomansayaboutFrank?[originaltext]M:Frankiscertainlyinago
[originaltext]M:Hello,canIhelpyou?W:Oh,yes.Goodafternoon.Isawthea
ACoolerPlanetScientistsarecookingupsolution
下列不是重力加载法的加载设备的是()。A.砝码 B.杠杆 C.水箱 D.
组合电器本体压力释放装置锈蚀,压力释放装置无法正常工作,定性为(____)。(A
本体感觉包括A.运动觉 B.平衡觉 C.机体觉 D.内感觉
分裂样人格障碍的特点是()。 (A)尚能容忍别人的轻视(B)常逃避与社会的
基础心理学是研究()。 (A)正常成人心理现象的心理学基础学科 (B
研究某事物与另外一种事物的关系及其密切程度,用A:回归系数 B:相关系数 C
施工单位竣工验收的准备工作包括( )。A.做好施工项目竣工验收前的收尾工作
最新回复
(
0
)