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ToK – Knowledge Issues

Three kinds of knowing Knowing / Direct Experience Knowing How / Skills Knowing That / Knowledge Claims. ToK – Knowledge Issues. Knowing in your IB Programme subjects. ToK – Knowledge Issues. Other 5 Subject Groups?.

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ToK – Knowledge Issues

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  1. Three kinds of knowing • Knowing / Direct Experience • Knowing How / Skills • Knowing That / Knowledge Claims ToK – Knowledge Issues

  2. Knowing in your IB Programme subjects ToK – Knowledge Issues Other 5 Subject Groups?

  3. Would it be fair to say that you gain all three categories of knowledge from all subjects? • Do different subjects offer a different balance of the three? ToK – Knowledge Issues

  4. Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492 Human beings are descended from apes Murder is wrong Aliens have visited earth at some time in its history All metals expand when heated Human beings have an immortal soul If A is bigger than B and B is bigger than C, then A is bigger than C ToK – Knowledge Issues Belief-knowledge continuum -10 | Impossible -5 | Unlikely 0 | Possible +5 | Probable +10 | Certain Belief Knowledge

  5. Rational claims: justified by reasoning and tested for consistency • Observational claims: about what we know through sensory perception • Value judgements: right-wrong etc. Until put in observational terms, it is opinion • Metaphysical claims: statements about the nature of reality that cannot be proved true of false by truth tests (coherence, correspondence, pragmatic) ToK – Knowledge Issues

  6. What do you know to be true? ToK – Knowledge Issues

  7. Different personal characteristics and experiences affect what people know. • Different levels of knowledge: • A superficial grasp • A good understanding • A complete mastery ToK – Knowledge Issues

  8. What is a Knowledge Issue? • Something which helps OR hinders our ability to obtain knowledge ToK – Knowledge Issues

  9. We need to find the knowledge issues…. • What? • Who? • Where? • When? • Why? • How? • Knowledge issues are everywhere…… ToK – Knowledge Issues

  10. ToK – Knowledge Issues

  11. What? • Who? • Where? • When? • Why? • How? ToK – Knowledge Issues

  12. A partial list of knowledge issues which affect our ability to obtain the truth….. • Age • Ethnicity • Education • Gender • Nationality • Prejudice • Experience • Belief systems • Emotions • Assumptions ToK – Knowledge Issues

  13. The role of judgement • The danger of gullibility • The danger of dogmatism ToK – Knowledge Issues

  14. ToK – Knowledge Issues Closed- mindedness Open- mindedness

  15. ToK – Knowledge Issues Closed- Mindedness Open- mindedness Gullibility

  16. ToK – Knowledge Issues Open- mindedness Closed- mindedness Dogmatism

  17. Good Judgement ToK – Knowledge Issues Closed- mindedness Open- mindedness

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