Addelson illusion: The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray!
OPTIONAL THEMES
1. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY
44 orders of magnitude
You are the product
Chess algorithm—AlphaZero
Artificial Intelligence
Faking it
In praise of Wikipedia
Video gaming: distraction or medicine?
Technomorality (in progress)
Trolley problems and self driving cars
Gorillas, robots and personhood
AI and academic integrity (in progress)
Existential threat
Promethean dreams
2. KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE
Problem of definition: beef and cows
Induction and deduction
Informal logical fallacy
Invent your own (language) games
Wittgenstein and the polysemy of language
In praise of the poetic voice
3. KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS
Ten most pressing world problems
Democracy and informed citizenship
Orwellian Newspeak
Power and Truth
Post-truth?
Epistemic justice
4. KNOWLEDGE AND ReLIGION
Introduction to the Variety of Religious Experience
A very persistent meme
Differentiating religion/religiosity from personal faith
Encounter with radical atheism
Zen TOK
5. KNOWLEDGE AND INDIGENOUS SOCIETIES
Defining “indigenous”
Nacirema case study
What can we learn from traditional societies?
Exorcising cultural relativism
Indigenous Questions
Caravaggio (1594-96) Narcissus. Oil on canvas. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte, Antica