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O...we have to write a TOK essay as well as a EE?
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could you post them?
ElisabethShirley
O...we have to write a TOK essay as well as a EE?
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Erm, you do the IB right?

The prescribed titles for November 2008 / May 2009 are;

1. "Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house" (Henri Poincare). Discuss in relation to science and at least one other area of knowledge.
2. When should we trust our senses to give us truth?
3. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing.
4. "Seek simplicity, and distrust it" (Alfred North Whitehead). Is this always good advice for a knower?
5. "In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance" (Henry Miller). Is this true?
6. Compare and contrast our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future.
7. "Moral wisdom seems to be as little connected to knowledge of ethical theory as playing good tennis is to knowledge of physics" (Emrys Westacott). To what extent should our actions be guided by our theories in ethics and elsewhere?
8. To understand something you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge?
9. "The knowledge that we value the most is knowledge for which we can provide the strongest justifications". To what extent would you agree with this claim?
10. "There can be no knowledge without emotion ... until we have felt the forve of the knowledge, it is not ours (adapted from Arnold Bennett). Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge ands emotion.
Reply 4
Wow, these really aren't that great. The questions don't really relate properly to the quotations, and most of them are way too shallow.
Reply 5
Boooooohoooo ******* TOK
Reply 6
non of them is that interesting.. i think i will go for the fifth one.
oh my god .. i forgot about the ToK essay..:frown:
So many quotes!
I think some are rather interesting, but a lot of downright boring topics/hard-to-write-in-1600-words-essay. Sigh.
Reply 8
What are you guys talking about?!

Number 3 looks perfect!
Was just about to say.

"3. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing." is easy peasy.

Spot on, sak-y
Reply 10
Yeah, I like 3 and 5 too, but the rest of them seem so shallow. :frown:
Mr. Shiver
Yeah, I like 3 and 5 too, but the rest of them seem so shallow. :frown:


To be honest, I think number 3 is the shallow one; for crying out loud, it's simply a regurgitation of the textbook.
Actually most of the questions really focus on the TOK (textbook? there is one?) idea. Much moreso than last year. Some of the things can be interesting but it is hard to expand upon.
Leprechaun
To be honest, I think number 3 is the shallow one; for crying out loud, it's simply a regurgitation of the textbook.


That's what makes it easy :P
Reply 14
Im thinking of doing number 8...

To understand somethign you need to rely on your own experience and culture. Does this mean that it is impossible to have objective knowledge???

Should i say that it is possible or impossible to have objective knowledge...

Im thinkings its possible...

Any ideas taht i could include...?
talespirit
Actually most of the questions really focus on the TOK (textbook? there is one?) idea. Much moreso than last year. Some of the things can be interesting but it is hard to expand upon.


There is one, published by Cambridge UP.
None of my teachers used IB text books :P
I would say questions 1 and 6 look the most interesting to me and I would choose those out of that list. There are a rather significant amount of quotation based q's though, I'm not keen on those ones....
need any help feel free to PM moi :smile:
Reply 18
I did mine for the May 2008 session and think I did quite well...my suggestion would be to do topic 3....my approach would be the standard value, limitation, and a appraisal of the alternative ways of knowing as a substitute (emotion in particular). Hope that helps. Remember lots of diverse examples!
Reply 19
we have to do a practice essay over easter hols, i did number 1 so that i could use number 3 for the real thing...
oh god there are loads of text books for tok. there are tok conferences teachers can go to. weekend courses in paris. ib is so pro tok.
the textbooks are really pathetic and basic. tok is meant to broaden the mind but it just makes you learn more ****e from a book and then, as leprechaun said, regurgitate it.