Direct Encounters

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Direct Encounters

• Richard Card
• Junior Philosophy and Film Major

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Edmund Husserl

• Modern science, Husserl argued, has achieved
  its successes at the expense of unwittingly
  performing a kind of...bait and switch...the
  natural world we encounter everyday...has been
  replaced by a mathematicized natural world.

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Bruce V. Foltz (Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics)

• The natural sciences, despite and even because of
  their spectacular results, have left the natural
  world.
• Should nature receive its significance only from
  the sphere of human needs and desires? Is nature
  essentially meaningless in its own right?

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John Burroughs(Naturalist)

• Hence I say the way of knowledge of nature is
  the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely
  found in the open air than in the schoolroom or
  laboratory

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Ricardo Rozzi(Dear and Loving Professor)

• the ways in which we understand the natural
  world
• the ways in which we dwell in the natural
  world.

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David Hume(Modern Philosopher)

• ...we shall always find, that every idea which
  we examine is copied from a similar
  impression...
• A blind man can form no notions of colours a
  deaf man of sounds...a man of mild manners can
  form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty.

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Debbie Smith (British Ecological Society)

• Fieldwork is becoming less a part of the whole
  ethos of biology...
• from the numbers enrolling on many of the
  courses that involve fieldwork as an integral
  part (and whole-organism biology in general) are
  declining.

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Debbie Smith(Cont.)

• from the numbers enrolling on many of the
  courses that involve fieldwork as an integral
  part (and whole-organism biology in general) are
  declining.
• The fact that the QAA benchmark statements are
  rather ambivalent - and effectively allow
  institutions to opt out of biological field work
  if they so choose...

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National Foundation for Educational Research

• Fieldwork can have a positive impact on
  long-term memory due to the memorable nature of
  the fieldwork setting. Effective fieldwork, and
  residential experience in particular, can lead to
  individual growth and improvements in social
  skills. More importantly, there can be
  reinforcement between the affective and the
  cognitive domain, with each influencing the other
  and providing a bridge to higher order learning.

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Bruce V. Foltz(Cont.)

• Scientific knowledge is not only useful but also
  essential for a fully human inhabitation of
  Earth...science would neither diminish our
  experience of nature more disenchant it, but
  offer us the capacity to fulfill John Burroughss
  injunction to enjoy it understandingly.