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Core Theme: Knowledge and the Knower

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Areas of Knowledge

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WHO WANTS TO KNOW?

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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

Who wants to know?

TOK and Metacognitive Possibilities

Who do you think you are?

Squidgy, pinkish, buttery gloop

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

Instantiation—where is knowledge?

Immense, entropic universe becoming aware of itself

Knowledge evolves

Figs from multiple viewpoints

Interpretation—What's happening?

What do little kids know?

Octopus Intelligence

Sentience Continuum

Active sense perception

What is it like to be a bat?

41 orders of magnitude

Unreliability of eyewitness reporting

Belief without evidence

Ethics vs. Morality

Apprenticeship in ethics

Saint or serial killer?

Seven Deadly Sins

Deontological demystified

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 threat

Promethean dreams

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

Epistemic justice

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

Exorcizing 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

Asch and Milgram experiments

3. THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Is there a scientific method?

Biological Language Delights

Theory of Ignorance

Nature of science (NOS)

Imagining geometry—a thought experiment!

Ideal Gas Law and the Euler Relation

Mathematical induction

Beguiling with statistics

This Statement is False

Platonists and Formalists

Why is ethics like math and not like math?

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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