Lectures

There won't be many lectures in TOK. This is a course of inquiry, after all, with students expected to do the inquiring. But there will be times when it will be important for us to have a shared understanding of larger contexts (what certain philosophers have asserted, for instance) as we dive further into our knowledge issues. Lecture notes (pdf files from original PowerPoints, typically) will be posted here. Note: These cannot be used as sources for official IB TOK assessments.  

The Divided Self (PDF 1.39 MB)
TOK Camp lecture. Theories of Mind: Metaphors & Dualisms.
A Brief History of Knowing - Rationalism and Empiricism (PDF 2.21 MB)
Reason vs. sensory perception. Plato & Aristotle. Descartes & Locke. Kant pulls it all together.
A Brief History of Thinking about Ethics (PDF 3.50 MB)
Traditional theories from philosophy and religion. Contemporary insights from psychology and neuroscience.
Paradigms (PDF 2.53 MB)
Paradigms as worldviews. The influence of our beliefs about human nature.
Humanist paradigms (PDF 0.98 MB)
Worldviews in which "man is the measure."
The Perennial Philosophy (PDF 1.50 MB)
What do the world's religions, idealist philosophies, and wisdom traditions have in common?

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