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.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Pain is How Your Brain Says "Thank You"
For next Monday morning (which is one week before our next class on May 7), please find a moment of knowledge that you do not yet fully comprehend. In working, then, to understand it, work also to understand the nature of its components (as with velocity and acceleration). In so doing, relate that moment of newly acquired knowledge (with which you may still be wrestling) to another in a different area of knowledge. Then, you guessed it, document the entire process in a post that culminates in a Knowledge Question. Remember in your documentation to consider the ways the process was shaped by your role as the unique knower.
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