Course: Theory of knowledge

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1	TOK Essay TOK Essay preparation schedule with due dates (updated) PDF document IB description of the TOK Essay PDF document TOK Essay 2009-2010 prescribed titles PDF document TOK Essay grading rubric PDF document TOK Essay submission cover page PDF document TOK Essay Pre-write form Word document TOK Essay template Word document TOK Essay writing advice: Understanding Knowledge Issues (Official IB Document) PDF document Ten Tips to Writing a Good TOK Essay PDF document Questions to ask of any Prescribed Title PDF document TOK Essay - Common Writing Errors PDF document Completed work submission: 10/1-2: Practice 1 rough draft Assignment 10/5-6: Practice 1 final draft Assignment 10/14-15: Practice 2 pre-write and outline Assignment 10/22-23: Practice 2 rough draft 1 Assignment 11/2-3: Practice 2 final draft (including abstract) Assignment 11/18-19: Final TOK Essay pre-write Assignment 12/1-2: Final TOK Essay outline Assignment 12/15-16: Final TOK Essay rough draft #1 Assignment 1/14-15: UPLOAD FINAL TOK ESSAY HERE Assignment Practice essay 2 ("Force of knowledge" ) example essays: Score of 8 (E) PDF document Score of 11 (D) PDF document Score of 18 (C) PDF document Score of 22 (C) PDF document Score of 22 (C) #2 PDF document Score of 27 (B) PDF document Score of 28 (B) PDF document Score of 28 (B) #2 PDF document Score of 31 (A) PDF document Practice essay 1 ("Culture and objective knowledge" ) example essays: Score of 14 (D) PDF document Score of 14 (D) #2 PDF document Score of 16 (D) PDF document Score of 18 (C) PDF document Score of 22 (C) PDF document Score of 23 (B) PDF document Score of 28 (B) PDF document Score of 29 (B) PDF document Other TOK Essay example papers: Score of 2 (E): ("Expanding field of knowledge") PDF document Score of 6 (E) ("Past vs. Future knowledge") PDF document Score of 24 (B): ("Expanding field of knowledge") PDF document Score of 24 (B): ("Strengths/weaknesses of reason") PDF document Score of 31 (A) ("Seek simplicity and distrust it") PDF document

2	Book studies Final paper topic and rubric: 1984 vs. Brave New World PDF document 1/19-1/22: Final 1984 vs. BNW Paper submission Assignment Brave New World (Aldous Huxley): Brave New World on Amazon file Online text of the book file 1984 (George Orwell): 1984 on Amazon file Online text of the book file Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse): Narcissus and Goldmund on Amazon file Narcissus and Goldmund paper topics PDF document Narcissus and Goldmund important passages by theme PDF document Being There (Jerzy Kosinski): Being There on Amazon file Being There movie on IMDB file Being There paper topics PDF document

3	Ethics Ethics unit schedule and quotes PDF document Readings and Handouts: Ethics student survey PDF document Cheating comic PDF document Lewis Thomas - The Lie Detector reading selection PDF document Hammurabi Code selections PDF document Was Shakespeare a Plagiarist? Plutarch and Antony and Cleopatra PDF document Megan's Law handout PDF document Abortion handout PDF document Sisella Bok - Liar, Liar reading selection PDF document Lecture notes: Ethics as an area of knowledge PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Ethics of authenticity PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Abortion PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Media: Radiolab show on Morality (Includes Trolly scenario) file This American Life show on the Ten Commandments file This American Life show on Fine Print (Part three is on health care) file Food Inc. movie trailer text file

4	Natural science Unit schedule and natural science quotes PDF document Readings and Handouts: Karl Popper - Science as Falsification handout PDF document Peter Weiss - Constant Changes PDF document Theodore Schick - The End of Science PDF document Lecture notes: History of natural science PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Thomas Kuhn and paradigm shifts PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Abuses of natural science PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation

5	History History unit schedule quotes PDF document Readings and Handouts: 1984: Can you rewrite history? PDF document Chance and history: the length of Cleopatra's nose PDF document Lecture notes: History and historiography PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation History, time and temporality, and the role of chance PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation

6	Mathematics Readings and Handouts: Mathematics quotes PDF document The nature of Mathematics Handout PDF document Number thyself PDF document Mathematics and Society - Quantification PDF document Buffon's Needle Problem counting chart PDF document Lecture notes: Mathematical theories and systems PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Cantor's infinity proof, Russell's Paradox, and Godel's theorem PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Mathematics, patterns, aesthetics, and nature PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Math and aesthetics continued PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Media: NOVA: The Proof video file

7	Human science Human sciences unit schedule and quotes PDF document Readings and Handouts: Horace Miner - Body Ritual among the Nacirema file Malcolm Gladwell - The Naked Face New Yorker article PDF document Paul Bloom: First Person Plural Atlantic article file NY Times: The Credit Crisis overview (abridged) PDF document Lecture notes: The Problem of Determinism PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Language and Human Science PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation The Limits of Artificial Intelligence PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation The Economic Crisis PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Madness and Civilization PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Media: This American Life Radio Clip: Mapping file

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9	Introducing theory of knowledge TOK Introduction schedule PDF document Autobiography of the knower writing assignment PDF document Politics of knowledge writing assignment PDF document Readings and Handouts: Knowledge and good taste PDF document Innovative critical thinkers comic PDF document The Knower in the Community of Knowers survey PDF document Neil Postman - Baloney and the Art of Crap Detecting reading PDF document Exploring knowledge - basic questions PDF document What's worth knowing? PDF document Gary Zukav - The Beginner's Mind Reading PDF document The Beginner's Mind handout PDF document The TOK Diagram handout PDF document The Knowledge Issue - POV Assignment PDF document Media: This American Life: A Little Bit of Knowledge (MJA) radio clip file

10	Conceptualizing knowledge Readings and Handouts: Plato and a Platypus reading on epistemology PDF document Correspondence truth test PDF document Coherence truth test PDF document Coherence vs. Correspondence truth test quiz PDF document Calvin and Hobbes comic on coherence PDF document Knowledge by acquaintance vs. Knowledge by description PDF document Knowledge and Justified True Belief - Plato PDF document Problems with Justified True Belief PDF document Playing with Plato PDF document Lectures notes: Introducing TOK: basic vocabulary and concepts PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation

11	Sense perception Sense perception unit schedule PDF document Imagine a world writing assignment PDF document Sense perception and criminal justice writing assignment PDF document Readings and Handouts: Sense perception quotes PDF document Plato - Allegory of the Cave PDF document K.C. Cole - In The Mind's Eye PDF document The emotional effects of color PDF document Eyes Don't Always Have It Reading file Media: This American Life radio clip on sound/tonality (Act Two) file

12	Language Language unit schedule PDF document Readings and Handouts: Language quotes and notes PDF document Aharon Amir - Nothingness poem PDF document Plato and a Platypus reading on language PDF document Describe these shapes in written language PDF document Jack and Jill eats, shoots, and leaves PDF document Meaning, vagueness, ambiguity handout PDF document Neil Postman - End of Education selection on language PDF document Lakoff and Johnson - Metaphors We Live By selections PDF document The Sea Gypsies - world and language PDF document The Perfect Name activity PDF document Politics of language activity PDF document Profanity activity PDF document Media: Sea Gypsies (Mokens) Movie, Part One file Sea Gypsies (Mokens) Movie, Part Two file

13	Emotion Emotion unit schedule PDF document Emotion quotes PDF document Emotion paper topics PDF document Emotion introduction activity PDF document Emotion introduction activity questions PDF document Readings and Handouts: Malcolm Gladwell - Blink Kouros reading PDF document Mark Greer - When Intuition Misfires reading PDF document Karen Kersting - Not Biased? reading PDF document Plato and a Platypus - Existentialism reading PDF document Blaise Pascal - Pensees selections PDF document Jean-Paul Sartre - The Wall story PDF document Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling unconditional commitment selections PDF document Mark Twain - Huck Finn's unconditional commitment to Jim PDF document Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor story PDF document Antinomies in The Grand Inquisitor PDF document Friedrich Nietzsche - selections PDF document Friedrich Nietzsche - Will to Power excerpts PDF document Lecture notes: Introducing existential thought PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Media: Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless on IMDB file Hubert Dreyfus lecture on Breathless and existential thought file

14	Reason Reason unit schedule PDF document Reason paper topics PDF document Readings and Handouts: Reason quotes PDF document Reason as a way of knowing PDF document Basics of reason and logic PDF document Errors of reasoning and logical fallacies PDF document Michel Foucault - The Order of Things Preface PDF document Empty language - Idle talk, baloney, and cliches PDF document Lecture notes: Logical fallacies PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Instrumental reason PowerPoint Powerpoint presentation Media: This American Life: Numbers radio clip file

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