Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2020-21/Truth in Pain

'''Today we have started discussing possible topics for our wikibooks chapter for the UCL module BASC0001. We decided that we will focus on Truth but we will carry out some more research before finalising our topic.'''

Our ideas are:

• Truth in reality/Truth in consciousness • Truth in the bystander effect • Truth in the Nature nurture debate, understanding of personality. • Truth in abnormality: Autism, MDD, another specific disorder, general mental health

The disciplines we may focus on are:

• Psychology

• Philosophy

• Anthropology

• Biology

MM.Mar 08 (discuss • contribs) 15:50, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

We have decided to focus on Truth in Personality: Nature/Nurture debate Today we discussed the potential structure of our wikichapter.

Introduction

Psychology: Discuss how psychology presents support both for the nature side of the debate and the nurture side of the debate.

Main Body

Biology: Present the view of Genetic Determinism in Biology

Anthropology/Sociology: Present the view for Nurture in personality.

Philosophy: As a subcategory to provide support for one argument (either to support the biological viewpoint or the anthropological/sociological)

Highlight interdisciplinary tensions

Where are there issues with the ways in which truth is obtained in these disciplines?

Conclusion

Epigenetics: A possible way to solve these interdisciplinary tensions.

MM.Mar 08 (discuss • contribs) 13:30 25 November 2020 (UTC)

We have decided to change our topic to the Truth in Pain as we believe there are more interdisciplinary tensions in this topic than in the one we had previously chosen.

Introduction:

Biology and Neuroscience- Positivistic Approach

Physiology of pain. Neuron firing rate, nociceptors and pain pathways, inflammation, 1-10 pain scales, range of motion.

Psychology- Interpretivism

Perhaps the placebo effect. How perception impacts physical sensation

Philosophy- Interpretivism

Anthropology- Social Constructivism

How pain is understood differently in different cultures. Ie:Machoism and pain as pleasure instead of suffering. Pain could also be a socially constructed notion. Pain as a punishment for sins.

Highlight Interdisciplinary Tensions+ Conclusion:

MM.Mar 08 (discuss • contribs) 13:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Today we have proceeded with structuring our article

Today we have talked about the structure of our aricle and we have decided to add:


 * to the Anthropology section:

- Linguistic Anthropology - Cultural Anthropology


 * to the Psychology section:

- Information about pain being not only suffering (e.g. masochism)


 * to the Philosophy section:

- Philosophy of Language


 * to the Tensions wihin Disciplines:

- Critiques of Positivism

- Critiques of Philosophical Interpretivism from biological point of view

- Critiques of Social Constructivism

Today we realised that our chapter is much longer than it should be, that is why we decided to shorten it as much as we can since we are still adding some information.

- We've decided to delete all the sections about linguistics.

- We will try to merge the Philosophy section with Psychology.

- We will get rid of the conclusion.

- We will try to shorten already written paragraphs.

'''Today we made the final changes to our chapter to ensure that everything was presented in the way we wanted it to be. We shortened all our explanations in order to fit within the 1200 word limit and looked over our structure one last time. MM.Mar 08 (discuss • contribs) 19:12, 13 December 2020 (UTC)'''