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Fragile & Revered Knowledge

10/25/2024

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TOK Talk · Fragile & Revered Knowledge
2025 TOK Essay Title 2: Is our most revered knowledge more fragile than we assume it to be? Discuss with reference to the arts and one other area of knowledge
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Guest: Janka van Jaarsveld
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Sounds: Sri Lankan rainforest in the morningSounds: Sri Lankan rainforest in the morning
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How do differing belief systems influence what we know?

8/7/2024

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TOK Talk · How do differing belief systems influence what we know? 不同的信仰体系如何影响我们的知识?
不同的信仰体系如何影响我们的知识? 
In this bilingual podcast, we explore the complex relationship between belief systems and our understanding of the world. We examine various belief frameworks, including the Judeo-Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian traditions, to explore if it is even possible to fully recognize the extent to which our underlying beliefs influence what we know and how we act. Join us as we delve into a short, sweet, yet deep conversation about our value systems and understanding how they shape our knowledge about others and the world. We hope this gets you thinking as you go about your day, and gives you a chance to consider: How do your values influence your knowledge?

Guests: Dr. Bill Mak, Sun Laoshi

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Prompt 6: How does the way we organise or classify knowledge affect what we know?

8/3/2022

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TOK Talk · How Does The Way That We Organize Or Classify Knowledge Affect What We Know - 8:3:22, 16.02
Today I’m joined by Liu Yu, aka Mr. LY, teacher of Chinese Humanities and Assistant Principal at ISF Academy in HK. We discuss Exhibition Prompt 6: How does the way we organise or classify knowledge affect what we know? We explore Confucian values in China as a way of organising knowledge (and by extension society) within Chinese culture. We also consider language and culture as ways we organize knowledge, and explore how in our personal experiences we’ve been able to step outside our own individual cultures in order to understand more about the world. 
We also really get into the challenge of language as a way we know about the world, and the complexities of translation, as well as how having more varieties of language allows us to become more aware of the nuances of our experiences around us. There is still a lot more to discuss about this question, especially in the realms of art, science and humanities! 
Thanks again to Bernard Wun for the guitar that brings us in and out of this one! Links for further investigation: 
  • Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis ​“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Shui Hu 水虎  (Water Margin)
  • All Men Are Brothers by Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong, Pearl S. Buck
  • Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. 
  • Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
  • Mood Meter App
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Prompt 5: What counts as good evidence for a claim?

6/26/2022

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TOK Talk · Prompt 5 What Counts As Good Evidence For A Claim?
In this episode, I sat down with DP Design Teacher Donna Gee and DP Global Politics Teacher Bill Kyzner to discuss TOK Exhibition Prompt 5: What counts as good evidence for a claim? It really got me thinking about the significance of this question in my own personal knowledge about myself and the world, but also in a bigger sense about claims being made in today’s very heated political world. We stayed focused in this talk about evidence and claims within Design and Global Politics, but I cannot stop thinking about how perspectives play a very significant role in just how much evidence is enough to be “good” enough, and the implications this has on all kinds of knowledge communities. There really is so much more to be said about this prompt. I’m gearing up to do a reflection episode, so if you have comments or things you’d like to add, please send me a message via the contact page at www.TOKTalk.org.  

And thank you thank you thank you to Bernard Wun for his lovely guitar licks on this track!
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Prompt 11: Can new knowledge change established values and beliefs?

6/1/2022

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TOK Talk · Prompt 11 Can new knowledge change established values or beliefs?
I know this will likely bother anyone who is interested in order and logic, but I've decided to break the order of prompts so I can publish them as I record them. Turns out the most interesting topics to those around me are not necessarily in the order the IB has given them. Who knew? Anyway...

Today I’m joined by Theatre Teacher, Bob Scheer. We get together and discuss TOK Exhibition Prompt 11: Can new knowledge change established values and beliefs? Bob has also done the beautiful harmonies for music on today’s podcast, they’re really beautiful!

Links & fact checks:
History of Gender Pronouns
JK Rowling on gender and cancellation - a worthwhile read, worthy of questioning what you think 
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Don’t Say Gay
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Intro to Ethics

12/31/2018

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​This episode I give an introduction to four main theories or perspectives on ethics: Virtue ethics, Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism and Utilitarianism, and Moral Relativism. I discuss these theories in relation to current situations such as the MeToo Movement and Self-driving cars. I love ethics... so this will be the first of several episodes looking at how ethics shapes knowledge in other areas.
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