Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2018-19/Truth and the Environment

At the end of the first wikibooks session, a facebook messenger group chat was created as well as a google document on which our research could be documented and was available for all of us to see and add to.

Our first idea was to talk about disciplinary categories and how the brain consciously and unconsciously categorizes information, but realized that the subject fit more into the concept of categories than disciplinary categories.

Our next idea was to talk about the environment. We did not know whether the issue of evidence or truth was best suited here. Capucine thought that evidence was more logical and the rest of the girls thought that it fit better into truth. As these two issues are still very closely related, we decided to go with truth because when we spoke about evidence in this theme we were talking about how this evidence led people to believe different things and so how truth was relative to every person.

Elli wrote an general introduction for the chapter deciding to introduce four concepts that would illustrate the issue of truth: the volkswagen scandal vegetarianism, fracking and climate change. We decided that we would each research these topics on our own time and add what we found to the google document. Clara, Capucine and Fran ended up doing research on vegetarianism and Elli did research on climate change.

We decided that these two subjects were the most suited to the issue of truth and decided to continue only with those two, and also because we would not have enough words to write about the importance of all four of them.

We added more informations on the topics into the google document.

The group met up on the 3rd of December to further discuss the plan of our wiki-book chapter. We decided to focus only on climate change because the word count is still too restrictive to talk about vegetarianism as well. We decided on our outline which would be composed of: 1- introduction 2- The facts 3- How manipulation of evidence can distort the truth 4- Scepticism 5- Conclusion Everyone was assigned a part and we gave ourselves a deadline to finish writing these parts by. Elli had already conducted her reasearch on climate change and written a short text. So we decided that Fran would be in charge of the facts, Capucine of how manipulation of evidence can distort the truth and Clara of scepticism and that after completion of said parts, we would incorporate what Elli wrote into each part.

When we met on Thursday, December 6th we each added subparts to the manipulation of evidence and scepticism because it could be read more easily and clearly as this is supposed to be a book chapter. We also started correcting the referencing format. We still had to write a conclusion and cut down on words because we still had too many, we would all work on that. Elli's part still hadn't been incorporated so Capucine said that we she would do it. We also said that we needed to complete the referencing ASAP because having not been sure what format to use, we had just been saving the links to the websites and sources used. We established that we should each have the other girls take a look at our respective parts to see what was good and what was bad about each of them, and to edit them.