The Arts
This TOK Sampler explores different aspects of The Arts as an area of knowledge.
Tag: Theory of Knowledge
Knowledge & Technology
TOK Sampler Knowledge & Technology explores different aspects of how technology is related to the knowledge process.
Assessing Spin
TOK Sampler Assessing Spin explores how the media influence many different aspects of our knowledge of the world around us.
Butterflies and Fish
Institute for Advanced Study astrophysicist Scott Tremaine explains how our personal biases and assumptions impact our quest for scientific knowledge.
Probing Identity
Rabbi Emeritus David Goldberg describes why he thinks that our feelings are the best guides to who we are.
Rethinking Law
Duke law and philosophy professor Nita Farahany demonstrates how our rapidly growing knowledge of neuroscience is having an impact on our legal understanding.
Changing Vocabularies
UCLA historian Nile Green describes how deliberately changing our vocabulary forces us to deepen our cultural understanding.
Copying Space
Neuroscientist Jennifer Groh describes how investigating how the brain coordinates sensory perceptions gives rise to an intriguing evolutionary hypothesis.
Praiseworthy Insights
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck describes how a debilitating fixed mindset bias can be inadvertently reinforced by praising someone in the wrong way.
Historical Perspective
Princeton University historian David Cannadine describes how the study of history gives us a much deeper understanding of many important contemporary issues.
The Constant Workout
York psychologist Ellen Bialystok on how neuroplasticity directly addresses the debate of to what extent our thoughts are influenced by the language we speak.
Experimental Morality
Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal investigates the extent to which our moral judgements can be extended to other animals.
Overcoming Impossible
Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt’s remarkable discovery of natural quasicrystals demonstrates the importance that persistence plays in scientific breakthroughs.
The Culture of Science
Award-winning poet & historian Jennifer Michael Hecht describes how the quest for scientific knowledge is often much less objective than many of us appreciate.
Unsustainable Values
University of Michigan Business Professor Andy Hoffman urges us to profoundly re-examine what it means to be environmentally sustainable.