Stoneleigh-Burnham School TOK 2013

The Theory of Knowledge—a core element of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme—is a course in epistemology and practical philosophy. By examining short texts (including but not limited to local and world issues, philosophy, history and its perspectives, and scientific research) and the knowledge issues they contain and inspire, you will gain the skills necessary to analyze knowledge claims, their underlying assumptions, and their implications.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Take a Stab at Color

This week, let's keep thinking about perspective in such a way as to reconnect with our neuroscience past, considering the interplay of mind and physics. Listen, please, to this Radiolab podcast. Consider the ways you the knower are also you the seer. What is the relationship between your two roles? Write about this. Also, please extract a knowledge issue from the podcast and transpose it to a moment of knowledge in your own life (not an imagined one). Remember, this does not mean a moment in which you also investigate color: drop the content.