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 23, 2012

Your Green Sounds a Little Flat

This week, please watch and listen as artist Neil Harbisson describes how he listens to color. In responding (which please do for Friday at local noon), please consider two questions: to what extent can one sensory way of knowing be substituted for another? Which of your ways of knowing does this lecture employ or trigger, and how and why?