Knowledge Issues

Knowledge Issues

When should we trust our senses to give us truth? • Three examples of Knowledge Issues that could be addressed in this title: • To what extent do our senses give us the truth? • To what extent do reason, emotion and language (and other factors) affect our sense perception? • What is the scope, and what are the limits of sensory information in different areas of knowledge?

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing • Three examples of Knowledge Issues that could be addressed in this title: • To what extent can reason operate in isolation from other ways of knowing? • What is the relationship between “reasoning” and “truth”? • In what ways and to what extent can reasoning operate in different areas of knowledge?

Knowledge Issues are Issues about Knowledge – hmmmm… • Terms of ToK vocabulary: • Areas of Knowledge • Ways of Knowing • Linking Questions • Belief • Certainty • Culture • Evidence • Experience • Explanation • Interpretation • Intuition • Justification • Truth • Values • Aspects of knowledge • Acquisition • Production • Shaping • Classification • Status • Acceptance • Rejection

Knowledge Issues are Issues about Knowledge – hmmmm… • Levels of Knowledge Issues • Poor • For a presentation, may be adequate to satisfy the criterion of KI • Intermediate • Good • Necessary for higher achievement on written assessment (and helps with presentation as well) • In General • Open-ended questions • Have more than one possible answer • Have more than one perspective • Explicitly about knowledge itself

The KI Scale

Rearrange these Physics and God How do religious people come to their beliefs? Article on science and religion How can reason be used to justify religious beliefs? Are religious beliefs reasonable?

Rearranged How can reason be used to justify religious beliefs? How do religious people come to their beliefs? Are religious beliefs reasonable? Physics and God Article on science and religion

Rearrange these What, if anything, do optical illusions tell us about sense perception and truth? Why do optical illusions happen? Optical illusions What can we learn from optical illusions? An optical illusion

Rearranged What, if anything, do optical illusions tell us about sense perception and truth? Why do optical illusions happen? What can we learn from optical illusions? Optical illusions An optical illusion

Rearrange these The execution of Saddam Hussein Capital punishment: why should or shouldn’t we adopt it? How can we know if capital punishment is right or wrong? A book:The Execution of Saddam Hussein What role should intuition play in justifying capital punishment?

What role should intuition play in justifying capital punishment? Rearranged How can we know if capital punishment is right or wrong? Capital punishment: why should or shouldn’t we adopt it? The execution of Saddam Hussein A book:The Execution of Saddam Hussein

Rearrange these To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions? Will predictions on teenage smoking turn out to be correct? A new government policy Stopping teenagers smoking How can we use models to predict social behaviour?

To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions? Rearranged A new government policy How can we use models to predict social behaviour? Will predictions on teenage smoking turn out to be correct? Stopping teenagers smoking

The KI Scale

To what extend can reason justify the presence of paranormal stuff? To what extent is individuality important as a way of developing self-perception in high-schoolers? We often have to assume some facts are true to continue thinking. How does this hinder or enable the process of knowing? To what extent does reason influence ourbelief on paranormal cliams. To what extent do emotions affect our trust on medicin? To what extent does the media affect our perception of certain world issues, and can we trust it? To what extent does Miss Anne's reason/ authority influence our behavior in school torwards wearing jeans? Is Miss Anne right about thinking that we shouldn't wear uniforms? Are the news saying the truth about the Swine Flu? why do we trust medicine? Why should we wear jeans in school? How useful are uniforms? Is it mandetory to wear jeans in school?

Is what we learn at any point in time certain, if we are likely to change our minds and interpret things differently as we gain more experience? Can you prove through emotion and sense perception the changes that chocolate has or doesn’t have in you? To what extend does the social medias change our interpretation of reality, and does it change our behavior? Why should we trust scientific trust of chocolate helping bad mood? What is the relationship of maturing senses and perceptions of truth and knowledge? Are the social networks to blame for or behavior? Will chocolate help your bad mood? Can social medias change our behavior? Does our capacity to learn change as we grow older? What are social medias? You notice details you didn’t before. Does chocolate taste good? Social medias and mass behavior Revising a childhood book. Eating chocolate

When should we trust our senses to give us truth? • To what extent do our senses give us the truth? • To what extent do reason, emotion and language (and other factors) affect our sense perception? • What is the scope, and what are the limits of sensory information in different areas of knowledge? • To what extent can reason operate in isolation from other ways of knowing? • What is the relationship between “reasoning” and “truth”? • In what ways and to what extent can reasoning operate in different areas of knowledge? Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing

Essay Key Concepts

Key Concepts • Knowledge Issue • Main Points • Statements being made • These are your paragraphs • Examples • Relevant and Effective • Different Perspectives • Another view on your topic or concept raised • Links • Between KI, WoKs, and AoKs • Counterclaims • An argument against a statement you are trying to justify • Implications • What does your argument imply? • Underlying Assumptions • What are you assuming?

The pathway… • Knowledge Issue • To what extent can reason operate in isolation from other ways of knowing? • Main Points • Emotion can not be understood without reason. • Sense perception can record data about the world around us, but reason evaluates, compares, and concludes. • Language provides the medium to communicate but reason gives that communication meaning. • Knowledge Issue • To what extent do our senses give us the truth? • Assumptions • That truth is a belief that is justified. • Main Points • Senses bring us knowledge about the world. • Limited senses limit our knowledge • Senses can give us faulty knowledge • I can share my experience with others

Essay Key Concepts

Knowledge Issues