Capstone papers-Role of skepticism
- Explain the role that skepticism plays in the search for scientific knowledge.
- Describe the value that skepticism has in the search for scientific knowledge.
- Describe a situtation in your experience (not previously discussed in class) when skepticism helped you arrive at a conclusion about a specific claim that you have encountered. Here are a few examples to get you thinking:
- A full moon affects human behavior.
- Psychics can foretell the future.
- The 1969 moon landing was fabricated.
