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HECOL 601

Ways of Knowing in Human Ecology

3 units

Fall 2022

Topics

  • Three
  • Four Five
  • Seven
  • Eight Nine
  • Eleven
  • Twelve
  • Thirteen
  • Identify and describe the meaning of epistemology and ontology broadly; be able to discuss

Readings

  • View, Part 2 Epilogue, Post-Copernican double-bind; knowledge & unconsciousness; evolution of worldviews, p. 415-445)
    recommended
  • Johnson, S. (2006). The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead
    required
  • Code, L. (2006.) Ecological thinking. The politics of epistemic location. Oxford: Oxford
    recommended
  • Merchant, C. (2008). Ecology. New York: Humanity Books
    recommended
Fall 2019

Topics

  • Three
  • Five Six
  • Seven
  • Eight
  • Nine Ten
  • Eleven
  • Twelve
  • Thirteen
  • Identify and describe the meaning of epistemology and ontology broadly; be able to discuss “how we know what we know”
  • Understand the key ideas, tenets, and turning points in the modern and postmodern time periods of intellectual history
  • Identify and describe the key concepts in human ecological epistemology
  • Reflect upon and describe their own personal worldviews including their personal ‘paths’ to those views

Readings

  • Johnson, S. (2006). The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead
    required
  • Code, L. (2006.) Ecological thinking. The politics of epistemic location. Oxford: Oxford
    recommended
  • Merchant, C. (2008). Ecology. New York: Humanity Books
    recommended
  • Westview Press
    unspecified
  • CP: Guba, E. C. (1990). The alternative paradigm dialog. In E.C. Guba (Ed.), The paradigm dialog (pp. 17-27, 379-400). Newbury Park, CA: Sage
    recommended
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