What are facts? Are they incontrovertible data that simply demonstrate what is true? Or are they bits of evidence marshaled out to persuade others of the theory one sets out with?  Do facts somehow exist in the world like pebbles, waiting to be picked up? Or are they manufactured and thus informed by all the social and personal factors that go into every act of human creation? Are facts beyond interpretation? Or are they the very stuff of interpretation, its symptomatic incarnation, instead of the place where it begins? --Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact                           
Class Syllabus Websites
Internal Assessment Rubric Know Thyself! A psychological test for hidden prejudices
External Assessment Rubric Your Brain in a Vat on Wikipedia
Tips for Writing a Good TOK Essay Philosophical Encyclopedia at Stanford University (One of my favorites)
Tips for Making a Good TOK Presentation Sign in HERE for ANGEL. 
Guide for writing a TOK External Assessment Essay 
Class Readings: In Their Own Words:

Here is the book you need to buy, Man is the Measure

The Nature of Knowledge
     How Do We Know Anything? Thomas Nagel    
     Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description, Bertrand Russell
     There's Something about Mary (Perceiving qualia and the ineffable experience of Being)

Reason and Logic
     A List of Common Fallacies with Examples
     Love is a Fallacy  and A Fallacious Exercise
     Fallacies, Fallacies, and more Fallacies 
     Anecdotage                                 

Perception
     Blink, Kenna's Dilemma (DOC version)
     The Brain's Picture of the External World   (Microsoft DOC version)   
     Optical Illusions
     The Problems of Perception

The Knower
     What is it Like to be a Bat? Thomas Nagel
     The Matrix as Metaphysics  
     Our Lives Controlled from Some Guy's Couch   
     Why the Probability is High that You are Living in a Computer Simulation

Commentary on Plato's Euthyphro

Ethics
     Morality Play
     Which Philosopher's Ethics are you most in line with?
     The Unbearable Likeness of Being

Readings for Ethics
     Virtue Ethics 
     Consequentialism 1   
     Deontology
     Kant's Deontology  
     Summaries of Ethical positions

Emotions
     God and the Limbic System
     The Guilt Free Soldier
     I Feel Therefore I am
     Impaired Emotional Processing affects moral Judgments
     Cosmetic Neurology

Language
     Japanese Language: The Interplay of Language, Thought and Culture  
     Metaphor and Meaning: An Interview with George Lakoff
     The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine
     Transgender Woman, IRS, Fight Over Tax Deduction  
     Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, by George Lakoff  

History
     Is Freedom a Universal Value?

Mathematics
     The Ideal Mathematician
     BBC Program on Mathematics

Art
     The Relation between Music and Math

Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Plato's Euthyphro (For Printing)
Descartres I Think, Therefore I am
David Hume On Miracles 
J. S. Mill What is Inductive Reasoning
Aristotle On Justice

Videos to watch for Class

 

   

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