2Q. Academia, Logic, Philosophy, Secularism, Methods, Innovation, Institutions (⋆⋆)

Academia, Science, and Logical Reasoning, Education, and Research, Numerico-Literary Analysis, Philosophy, and Methods, Mathematics.

The whole discourse of scientific progress is itself a domain of study. How do we know what we know as true; and if it is in fact true? Well, we have logical premises, fundamental axioms, evidence-based and data-driven conclusions; and more importantly science works: good ideas that work carry on living strong and are built upon, while bad ideas which don’t work fade away. Again, with basic fundamental principles which can withstand strong scrutiny, we can create a open system of exchanged ideas which, on average, over time, produces new beneficial technologies on the long term. Here is the fundamental importance for why governments and private corporations should fund basic research & academia (whether or not it is 'interdisciplinary', and whether or not it has any foreseeable practical applications in the near future).

Secularism:

It is a way to solve problems in our society by moving away from a fundamentalist & extremist religionist approach.

Secularism is very important for the following:

Each individual's right to freedom of religion, or lack thereof (atheism/agnosticism).
Uncensored unrestricted free exchange of ideas, with no fear of being physically victimised.
Constructing societal systems of laws and social policies aimed to optimize freedom of thought, free speech, equality of rights & civil liberties regardless of gender or race, and personal social freedoms.
Furthering intellectual freedom.
Progress in scientific education of children and adults.
Progress in scientific research in physical, biological and social sciences.
Dissociating certain religious beliefs from geo-political ideologies, so that we have lower levels of conflict between (1) state(govn)-based powers (2) insurgent groups and (3) all the other individual human beings in the world have.
Implementing science-informed policies.

Useful sources:

Richard Dawkins foundation

https://www.richarddawkins.net/category/topic/science/

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/outreach/

Centres for secularism, education, scientific method, popularisation of science, political, etc.

https://www.skeptic.com/

Committed to critical thinking, scepticism, debunking pseudoscience

https://michaelshermer.com/2017/04/science-makes-america-great/

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair/steps-of-the-scientific-method

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/intro-to-biology/science-of-biology/a/the-science-of-biology

https://explorable.com/what-is-the-scientific-method

https://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n4/full/nmeth0409-237.html

https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7575/full/526638a.html

https://www.nature.com/news/facebook-likes-the-scientific-method-1.11064

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-016-9804-z

http://www.iep.utm.edu/connect/

Connectionism

https://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400

Some videos from external sources:

"Academic research and writing – Chapter 1 Foundations – Unit 4 Philosophical considerations" by Prof. Dr. Christian Decker

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uXaDtT7r0gc

"The philosophical method - logic and argument" by Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M14ReHfPFUw

"MBA Quantitative Research Methods (Part 1 of 4)" by Regenesys Business School

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aBvShB2kd5c

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