Class+Schedule

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 Lesson 1: Introduction, class expectations and rules, "What is TOK?" Defining key terms including “information, data, opinion”



 Lesson 2-3: The problem of Knowledge. Chapter 1 of text.

 Cultural context and limitations of knowledge claims.



 Lessons 4 and 5: Chapter 2- The Nature of Knowledge

 Definitions of Knowledge, Theories of Truth

 We will also discuss Maja's 12 ways of knowing from “Ways of Knowing in attempting to define the concepts of “knowing, belief, faith”.



 Lessons 6-8: Chapter 3- Language

 Sections from Films-1 and 7 of “The Mind” series “The Quest for the Mind” and “Language”

 Hand-out “Nuclear Language”

 Lessons 9 and 10: Chapter 4 Perception

 Class discussion and visual examples of optical and perceptual illusions,

 Review of 9 Weeks Essay Assignment

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Lessons 11-13: Chapter 5- Reasoning and forms of Logic

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (supplemental material from //Thinking Socratically: Chapter on Logical Fallacies including “Love is a Fallacy”//)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Selection from Suzette Elgin’s “Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”, on common rhetorical devices in argumentation

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Lessons 14-15- Chapter 6- Emotion

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Section on Propaganda, using selections from “”Triumph of the Will”, “The Eternal Jew”, and “Classics in American campaign commercials”. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> found at <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> http://warnerhistorysite.weebly.com/tok-i-and-ii-syllabis.html <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">