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Core Theme: Knowledge and the Knower

Optional Themes

Areas of Knowledge

12 TOK Concepts

TOK EXHIBITION AND ESSAY

WHO WANTS TO KNOW?

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SITE MENU

Knowledge Questions

Core Theme: Knowledge and the Knower

Optional Themes

Areas of Knowledge

12 TOK Concepts

TOK EXHIBITION AND ESSAY

WHO WANTS TO KNOW?

THE 350 LINKED CLASS ACTIVITIES ON ONE ENORMOUS PAGE

UPDATES AND NEW CONTENT

CONTACT AND NEWSLETTER

Who wants to know?

TOK and Metacognitive Possibilities

Who do you think you are?

KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWER

Student Knowledge Claims

The Map is not the Territory

Allegory of the Cave

Blind Men and the Elephant

Knowing that and knowing how

Justified True Belief

Theories of Truth

Good and bad explanations

Sentience Continuum

Instantiation--where is knowledge?

Knowledge evolves

Squidgy, pinkish, buttery gloop

Figs from multiple viewpoints

What do little kids know?

Octopus Intelligence

Active sense perception

What is it like to be a bat?

41 orders of magnitude

Eyewitness reporting

Emotion and Intuition

Trusting your gut!

Belief without evidence

Ethics vs. Morality

Seven Deadly Sins

Why is ethics like math and not like math?

Duty, utility and intention

Saint or serial killer?

Asch and Milgram experiments

OPTIONAL THEMES

1. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY

You are the product

In praise of Wikipedia

Video gaming: distraction or medicine?

Chess algorithm—AlphaZero

Artificial Intelligence

Trolley problems and self driving cars

Gorillas, robots and personhood

Existential threats

Forbidden knowledge archetypes

2. KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE

Polysemy of Language

Induction and Deduction

Logical Fallacy

In praise of the poetic voice

3. KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS

Ten most Pressing World Problems

Democracy and informed citizenship

Orwellian Newspeak

Power and Truth

Politics divides

Epistemic justice

Burkini: competing freedoms

4. KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGION

Variety of Religious Experience

Very persistent meme

Religiosity and faith

Encounter with radical atheism

5. KNOWLEDGE AND INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES

Defining "indigenous"

Learning from traditional societies

Exorcising cultural relativism

Indigenous questions

AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

History is not what happened

The map that made a nation cry

2. THE HUMAN SCIENCES

Consilience of Knowledge

Remembrance of things past

3. THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Is there a scientific method?

Biological Language Delights

Theory of Ignorance

Nature of science (NOS)

Ideal Gas Law and the Euler Relation

This Statement is False

Mathematical induction

Platonists and Formalists

Shostakovich 8th String Quartet

Evoked emotions in the visual arts

Imagination with constraints

Rembrandt Self Portraits

Duchamp's fountain

The value of Art

High Art Brain Imaging

TOK ENDGAME

TOK Formal Assessment

TOK Essay essentials

TOK Essay strategy

TOK Essay virtuosity

TOK Essay blunders to avoid

TOK Essay satirical poem

Student feedback

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