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Knowledge Questions

TOK in the age of AI

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

TOK in the age of AI

Core Theme: Knowledge and the Knower

Optional Themes

Areas of Knowledge

12 TOK Concepts

TOK EXHIBITION AND ESSAY

WHO WANTS TO KNOW?

Who wants to know?

TOK and Metacognitive Possibilities

Who do you think you are?

Squidgy, pinkish, buttery gloop

Immense, entropic universe becoming aware of itself

Knowledge evolves

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?

Sentience Continuum

Figs from multiple viewpoints

Interpretation—What's happening?

Cognitive Bias—Heuristics

What do little kids know?

Octopus Intelligence

Active sense perception

What is it like to be a bat?

Unreliability of eyewitness reporting

Remembrance of things past

Belief without evidence

Ethics vs. Morality

Apprenticeship in ethics

Saint or serial killer?

Seven Deadly Sins

Deontological demystified

OPTIONAL THEMES

1. KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY

63 orders of magnitude

You are the product

Chess algorithm—AlphaZero

Artificial Intelligence

In praise of Wikipedia

Techno-morality

Trolley problems and self driving cars

Gorillas, robots and personhood

AI and academic integrity

Existential threat

Promethean dreams

2. KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE

Induction and Deduction

Logical Fallacy

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

Epistemic justice

4. KNOWLEDGE AND RELIGION

Variety of Religious Experience

Religiosity and faith

Very persistent meme

Big metaphysical questions

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

Beguiling with statistics

Systems thinking

Demographic time bomb

Asch and Milgram experiments

3. THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Is there a scientific method?

Theory of Ignorance

Biological Language Delights

Imagining geometry—a thought experiment!

Ideal Gas Law and the Euler Relation

Mathematical induction

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

What about Athletics?

Rembrandt Self Portraits

Duchamp's fountain

The value of Art

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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