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So im doing ethical judgments limit the methods available for the production of knowledge in the arts and natural sciences, and i really need some idea topics for art. Im doing Photojournalism for art, and the Tuskegee Syphilis study for natural sciences, but i need one more topic ideas! Help!
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I's writing on the title: Ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. I keep seeing online that people are stressing directly answering the title, but how is that handled from a discuss perspective?
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I'm doing realllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy bad in the subject and I know it's not supposed to be hard. Can someone please tutor me?
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Greetings! I have a question regarding Topic 3 for May 2014 specifically and TOK essays in general. The topic is: “Knowledge is nothing more than the systematic organisation of facts.” Discuss this statement in relation to two areas of knowledge. Now the topic clearly states "two areas of knowledge" however, my TOK coordinator is suggesting that I include three. I do have good matter to write about in three areas, but should I ignore the topic and go for three? or should I just elaborate two more? Thanks!
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Me and my group are discussing: How can we determine whether the collection of personal data is justified? I was now thinking wheter I should talk about psychology or criminology in terms of personal data collected. How would we define personal data in psychology? However I have no real ideas about what to talk about. Would anyone have suggestions or ideas to this topic? Thanks
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Hey! I have a presentation coming up to which I shall base my RLS on a trial of a holocaust denier with the KI being: "what is historical truth and how would perception influence this?" How would you recommend going about this? What certain theories/structures would be ideal for this presentation?
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Is art better placed than standard historical writing to convey the personal experiential aspects of historical events? I did I practice tok oral where I previously had the question of "Are there types of historical knowledge that are better conveyed through art than through factual historical sources?". So when preparing for my final tok presentation my teachers allowed me to use the same presentation but to change the question and real life situation. So I have come up with the question is on top: "Is art better placed than standard historical writing to convey the personal experiential aspects of historical events?" . But however I am not happy with the wording of th…
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Hey guys, I'm currently doing the TOK essay topic "Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences" And so for my examples, I will use the 1.Tuskegee syphilis experiment (Unethical testing on a slective race (negros)) 2. The Degenerate Museum in Germany (Deems certain artwork and artists unethical due to race or message within artwork) 3. Lysenko Ethics on crops (Lysenko uses irrationality to boast his methods on raising crops, impeding reasoning) So for my claims and counter claimsin respect to my examples are: 1. Claim: Being unable to test on humans may not allow us to gain information, as it rules …
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I have a question regarding TOK Essays: I am class of May 2014, so do I choose from the May 2014 titles or November 2013? The reason is, is because our TOK class ended last year and we therefore wrote our TOK essays by choosing from prescribed titles from November 2013.
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My practice presentation is due tomorrow (procrastination!!!) and I don't really know what to put in my presentation or what to discuss. My question is "Can art influence social change?" And I'm looking at the holocaust memorial in Berlin... other than talking about the memorial what do I talk about
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Hi everyone I really need help ( like most of us in here) I need help in my tok essay, my tok teacher died from cancer :'( (not kidding) she died in a hospital while she was writing us some feedback for our tok essays... anyway the "new" teacher that is doing the feedbacks doesn't know much about TOK, and he is also the "director" of the IB and teacher in french ^^''' soo he is always busy and I was wondering if someone with a good understanding of TOK could help me but I don't want to post my essay and then some people will copie it >< I just want to make proud to my TOK teacher ... so that she knows that she didn't waste her time . Ty anyways
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So I recently uploaded my TOK essay, not realizing that I did not need to upload it as soon as I got my Personal code and PIN. I removed the essay but I'm not quite sure how the 24 hour leniency period works. Do I have to upload the new version within 24 hours of the original upload or does the 24 hour period only refer to the time you are given to remove the essay?
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Hey, I have a new assignment which is to write an essay based on "faith" as a way of knowing. I would really appreciate is you can share ideas and thoughts about this so I can have clear ideas on what to write about. Thanks
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So I'm doing topic one for my TOK essay and I was wondering just how many knowledge issues I should include in the essay. I know I definitely want 1 of them to be "Where do we get our ethical code from?" or something along the line of that, but do I need more than that one? Also how are knowledge issues and claims/counter claims connected? Are my claims/ counter claims supposed to come from my knowledge issue? Or can they be different?
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Hey guys, About the TOK essay, I have chosen title #4 for the may 2014 exams. This may sound like a silly question, but I just need a clarification.. so if this is the question “That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow.” Do I still need to come up with a seperate knowledge issue? Like wouldn't my knowledge issue just be restating the question? Or do I need to incorporate my aoks/woks into the KI too? Thanks!
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I have a sample TOK presentation due in two days. I'm in DP1 so it isn't that important. I still want to do fairly well. I wanted to do something related to Economics so I thought I'd do something related to communism or another controversial means of governance. I can't seem to formulate a question. Ideas would be appreciated preferably Economics related. I'll probably present in the old fashioned way - powerpoint and spoken word. Cheers,
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is it okay if i use I and we in my tok essay? I'm talking about my personal views in the essays and describing a story that happened to me (all related to the tok question/title of course) and i can't help but using personal pronouns. is that okay? appreciate the help!!
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my tok essay will be on the prescribed title #1: Ethical judgements limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. is this implying that i should weigh out the pros and cons or..? my tok teachers are the worst because my school doesn't hire proper tok teachers...they're just drama teachers who claim they have been to some tok courses and what not so i can't really ask them for help because i won't get any help or feedback from them :-\
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Hello Everyone, I was doing some research and I needed to find out how exactly the Arts are a form of knowledge. How do we gain knowledge from the arts? For example, the sciences give us facts about the natural world around us through which we understand and hence gain knowledge. However, I don't really quite understand the Arts. I tried reading the books I have but I don't really get it and it isn't really explained. Can someone please explain it to me? Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
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I need help please I'm in the IB but I don't undestand ToK, nothing of it what can I do in order to understand it??
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I read the TOK essay guide, and I just wrote my introductory paragraph. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to read it to make sure I'm on the right track. Or is it against the rules? I'm doing question #1 on how ethical judgments in arts and natural sciences can limit the methods of producing knowledge.
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Hello Everyone I've seen a post about this Prescribed Title somewhere, however I wanted to ask some questions about the types of AoK that come to mind/how to use them appropriately and usefully in the essay. 6. "A skeptic is one who is willing to question any knowledge claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic and adequacy of evidence" (adapted from Paul Kurtz, 1994). Evaluate this approach in two areas of knowledge. This prompt got me thinking about some of the following topics -skepticism and it's meaning (how it contributes to the development of theories and ideals) -the difference between knowledge and faith, and how it applies here (AoK ethics?) -…
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May 2014 4. “That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow.” 1 2
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Hello guys! I'm a new person on the forum. I need some help on the TOK Essay, as I'm kind of stuck. I agree with this claim. Firstly, I'm going to explore the wording of the question. Sometimes: This implies of some knowledge claims are discarded, and some stay. This relates to the word discarded, as how discarded might not really mean discarded as we know it. It could be like evolution, as old theories are constantly being "evolved" by new theories, they are discarded. But we can say they're not discarded, but rather, the old theories simply were assimilated within the new theories and "evolved." This would correlate to the sometimes thing, as some are completely disca…
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Hey all, I was working on my TOK presentation today and I thought about having multiple real life situations. I have the topic cloning, "To what extent can cloning be regarded as ethical issue" I have reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning, I have already 1 real life situation for the reproductive cloning, and I also have one for the therapeutic cloning, but am I allowed to have 2 real life situations? And what do you think about my Structure? Introduction Knowledge Issue Real-life situation Perspectives conclusion. I would appreciate any other tips!! Thanks in Advance
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Help me with this example: Is there a causation between cancer and smoking or just a strong correlation? is it a causation if smoking will always cause a physical change in your cells, which in turn causes cancer, or is it a causation between smoking and causing a change in your cells but not between smoking and getting cancer, because there are many other factors (immunity, genes, etc.) that determine whether you are going to develop cancer at all. hope you get what im saying, cheers
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Hello! I'm doing my TOK presentation in a month with the KI: ''How can reason be used to justify religious beliefs''? I was wondering if the general debate, between science and religion (atheists coming to believers and asking them to prove this or that) an RLS? Thanks in advance, ibsurviving.
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Hi there! Right now I'm in the middle of the TOK Essay process and I am so stuck. It is due next week ,and I'm starting to panic more or less, so I would be extremely grateful for some help :-) So my knowledge issue is; "To what extent is knowledge temporary?". And I have chosen to consider the AOK:S History and Natural Science. I have so far come up with some quite relevant examples (both supporting and contradicting that knowledge is temporary) within Natural Science. What I have a huge problem with is that I cannot come up with a contradicting example when it comes to History. I.e. something within History that is not temporary. After a lot of thinking it almost seems …
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Hey everyone , im still in IB system and i found it out its quite difficult . Tok needs a lot of concentration and critical thinking . We need to write essays and do some presentations . For those scorer in tok , can u give me some tips on how to work on it ? How to make ourselves clearly understand with those kinda things ? I need some guidance :'(
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For my official ToK essay, I chose the first question which is: "Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the in both the arts and natural sciences. Discuss." My essay is due tomorrow & I literally have no idea how to structure it or anything cause our teacher never actually taught us. Now, I know what I can include regarding context but can someone give me an idea on how to structure it?
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Hey guys, I was wondering if this question would be good as the title for my TOK presentation? How can reason be used to justify religious belief? Also, what would the knowledge issue in this case be? Is Einsteins meeting Tagore (intellectual debate between two great thinkers) a good real life situation? Reason induced science vs religion http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/ Cheers.
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I have the TOK presentation for this Monday with my partner and we have a problem deciding a KI. Our RLS focuses on the privacy control issues (mainly with NSA). We had developed one KI like: "To what extent the ethics can provide solutions to privacy control over the web?" But our teacher says it's too closed.. Any help please? Thanks in advance. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
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Hey everyone! My teacher recently gave us a practice TOK essay question to answer until tomorrow, but I'm so confused about it, and have no idea what to write. What do you think of it? What are your ideas? "Reason gives us knowledge, emotion gives us understanding. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Discuss with reference to shared knowledge." Thank you for your help!
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Hi, I was editing my essay when i thought of slightly modifying my knowledge issue and I came up with something similar to the knowledge issue used in my presentation. Is that possible? I mean could I continue modifying it as planned? Do the essays and presentations go to the same moderator?
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TOK checklist
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Hi everybody, I have a TOK presentation in a couple of weeks and I want to start make a plan on how the presentation should be outlined. I was on the internet the other day and suddenly I saw an amazing file where it is supposed to help you to write what your real life situation is, KIs, Arguments, counterarguments, WOK, AOK and etc. Do anyone of you know which one I am talking about? I am pretty sure that there must be someone who knows the format. And if you know I would be very happy to get the help -Viska
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i need help with the TOK presentation. I know what its going to be about , but i am having problems making the knowledge issue. So im doing about this rock that was found in Peru and its an alive rock, it can move and all that. In peru people eat it where as in Indonesia people treat it as a god figure and it was found only 2 months ago. So plz help with the knowledge issue and also the issues i can talk about throughout the presentation . Thankyou so mcuh ! ))
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Hey everyone! I know this is late, everyone has already done their tok paper but in my school we're still in the process of doing the paper. I chose number 5, which is, "The historian's task is to understand the past; the human scientist, by contrast, is looking to change the future." To what extent is this true in these areas of knowledge? I already got some ideas on what I want to do, like the real life situation for my paper because I already did a paper on history before. But I'm really confused on cooperating both human science and history to my knowledge issue, and to have a KI that is well suited to my essay. For the real life situation, I've been thinking on doing…
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I have chosen title 3 for my ToK essay. However, I need some help with my essay. Does anyone have any ideas? I have chosen to answer this question with reference to natural sciences and ethics. Which examples could I use?? I get the main idea. Knowledge is a process that involves the systematic organisation of facts BUT also requires the analysis/interpretation/experience/context of these facts. For example, a computer may systematically compile data on the characteristics of a person or thing without actually knowing the person or thing. As a keen geography student, I would like to try and use global warming as an example for natural sciences. Also if anyone has any link…
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Hi, I'm editing my essay now but I get stuck on chossing a new example for my essay. My essay is agreed with the quote in tittle #6 and I choose chemistry (natural science) and math for that. I also choose an example of a child and fire to support my essay but my teacher says it is too general. Anyonw have an idea what example I could use? It should be a great person who doesn''t believe in a thoery so he/she have to find solid logic and eveidence to believe in it. Thank you so much
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So, my teacher sprung the TOK presentation on us and we have a week to complete it. Yes, a week. I've decided to go alone on this one to pursue my interests pertaining to the arts, and I have a great idea for my knowledge question but I don't know how to word it properly. I want to look into the controversy of ill-placed art such as graffiti, and whether art placed illegally is still art. Or something like that. RLS: Banksy's work which is controversial (for those who do not know, he is a graffiti artist who makes AMAZING eye opening work but ticks people off because it is also vandalization.) And if I can I want to mention that there's a city in California or somewher…
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Hi guys, I have decided on my ToK, question that I am going to be doing a presentation on. Here is the question: How does the methodology of natural sciences make it more convincing than that of human sciences? Any suggestions on how I could improve it? I feel now as though as if its too unoriginal. Any comments or feedback is appreciated
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Hey All, after submitting my rough draft of my prescribed title to TurnItIn sometime before Winter break, I received my projected grade. I was given a 24/40, which is a B, but my teacher only gave a grade, no comments. He gave limited feedback and did not tell me how to improve the paper. I was just looking for anyone to take some time to read my paper and give some advice on how to improve. Your help would be much appreciated. I chose title 1: Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. If you wish to help, I can send the paper through an email, and any help would be greatly appreciated…
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Hello All, I'm doing my TOK presentation in few weeks. My teacher said to take a Real Life situation that appeals to you rather than a RLS, which is very distant. So, I am a movie maniac, and I decided to base my presentation on a movie. I did some research and narrowed it down to few movies: Inception Blade runner The fox and the hound Matrix My Big fat greek weeding Groundhog day Starwars I'm inclined towards inception, but I'll take any suggestion that you people will give me. Also, can someone help me on what I can focus on the selected movie. Your help is much appreciated Thank you
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Ive been thinking a lot about no 3, and im stuck for so long Should i change my question? I know what to talk about how knowledge is systematic organisation of facts, but it's definitely more than that, right? but can i say it's also experience? Idk how to counterargue, n idk if im doin right or not......HELP PLS KNOWLEDGE ITSELF IS A BIG WORD.....i did my first draft, my KI was ok, examples were personal so my tc rly liked it, but idk what to counterclaim
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Hi guys, I'm having a bit trouble with choosing what tok topic I should do. So , i have two options to choose from (I came up with the list btw ) : 1) Art: Here, i'm talking about whether we can trust our emotion in defining art. 2) Lookism: whether we discriminate others for their looks/appearances? My main question is which one should I choose because I really want to do the arts one but I'm scared that it could be a common topic. So I would really appreciate some advice Thanks for your time!
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So I am doing my presentation for TOK on the usage of Doping in sports. I have been searching through and looking and examples of KI's and how to make them and so far...im not doing that well in creating one. I would like to focus on either Canadian Athletes or on the Lance Armstrong story. Thanks for the help
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For my personal/real life example I'm using an excerpt from Lewis Carrol's Through The Looking Glass: "[...] There's glory for you!" "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." I've always had trouble creating KIs and this is a…
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Presentation Creation vs. Evolution Knowledge Issues
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Hi, I'm thinking of doing evolution vs. creationism as my topic for my TOK presentation. Anyone have any suggestions as to possible knowledge issues to explore? Whats the best knowledge issue you could explore in this topic. What KI would you pick on this topic? I am well versed in the real life events and news stories surrounding this issue so that won't be a problem. Please don't reply if you don't have any KIs in your answer. Thank you
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Listen, I have to come up with my TOk presentation and I am having the hardest time. If some one could lend me a hand in coming up with an idea with me, that would be great.
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Does anyone in need of TOK notes ,like summaries of texts? I'm considering to update those notes . Just to do a little survey before I take action.
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Hi guys, I've been spending 3 DAYS trying to work on #4 "That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow." Consider 2 AOK . Firstly, I thought that this should be easy as it is so obviously "true" in Natural Science as there are some/many theories which have been falsified. And I can as well make a distinction with Mathematics as a counterclaim (based on axioms, rigorous proofs...) and it is rarely falsified although there were some instances it did. I have tried to attempt on discussing the methodology .... scientific method the nature of revisionism in science.... but it seems to be not critical and my head is totally convoluted. It seems tha…
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