Values

> //At the end of nine or ten nights he realized, with a certain bitterness, that he could expect nothing from those students who accepted his teaching passively, but he could of those who sometimes risked a reasonable contradiction. // (Jorge Luis Borges)
 * //To live is, in itself, a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.// (Albert Camus)
 * How do values underlie the pursuit of truth in the different areas of knowledge? How, if at all, do they influence methodology?
 * To what extent do the different ways of knowing and areas of knowledge influence the values adopted by individuals and societies?
 * In what ways do values affect our representations of the world, for example, in language, maps, visual images, or statistics? When might a persuasive representation be praised as “effective”, or, in contrast, condemned as “manipulative”?