Reflection of Theme 1

The first week theme was theory of knowledge and theory of science. I read read Plato’s Theaetetus and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I found these texts, especially Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, challenging therefore I valued the lecture and the seminar. The lecture clarified the texts by giving examples and explanations, which helped and gave me a new perspective on both Theaetetus and Critique of Pure Reason. After the lecture I read them again which gave me an even better understanding and clarification of the subject. During the seminar we could discuss the matter and it also gave us participants of the seminar an opportunity to ask och analyze questions about things we still thought was difficult to understand. We spend most of the time during the seminary to talk about Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason since most of us seemed to found that text a bit more difficult and there was also a lot of interesting aspects to discuss.

I have broaden my idea and definition of knowledge, simply said is knowledge a lot more than just knowledge it self. From Plato’s Theaetetus I will especially bring along one thing that Kant said “Conception without perception is blind”, which reflects on our sense and reason. There is difference between hearing and listening, also looking and seeing. From Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason I thought the categories of the understanding was interesting. I also got a wider view of knowledge and objectivity and the link between them.

Obviously I learned a lot about the subject itself, theory of knowledge and theory of science. I believe that I also learned a lesson about not always having a direct answer, psychology is an new era for me which I found very interesting. This week theme has opened my mind and gave me new perceptive on how to see and process new information that I am not familiar with.