ToK Review: The BIG Picture in Minutes
This show consists of a series of podcasts reviewing key topics in Theory of Knowledge. The first 3 episodes offer a general introduction to Theory of knowledge (Ways of Knowing, Personal and Shared knowledge, forming Knowledge Questions). The remaining podcasts cover the Areas of Knowledge. Supplementary material is available on the companion site.
I hope these podcasts will help students prepare for topic assessments, and the ToK Essay. Sorry about the ads-the price of free podcasting!
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2022
Episode 1: Introduction to Theory of Knowledge
In this inaugural podcast we confront the limitations of knowledge based on common sense and develop an alternate view based on the metaphor of map-making. It then examines how we determine truth wit…
Episode 2: Ways of Knowing
This podcast focuses on our access to the world via the Ways of Knowing and examines 4 WoK's--sense perception, language, memory, and reason. It challenges the assumptions of the unreliability of the…
Episode 3: Personal and Shared Knowledge & Knowledge Questions
This final introductory podcast explores the two different types of knowledge investigated in ToK, personal knowledge and shared knowledge, as well as the relationship between the two. The use of kno…
Episode 4: Ethics as an Area of Knowledge
This overview of Ethics begins with a discussion of the scope of ethics and next examines the types of moral choices available. Next, the levels of moral choices are examined, as well as the moral sy…
Episode 5: Natural Science as an Area of Knowledge
The podcast distinguishes science from psuedo-science, and then lays out the tradtional view of the scientific method. The remainder of the podcast deconstruct this view, using the work of Kemeny, Br…
Episode 6: The Human Sciences as an Area of Knowledge
The podcast examines the scope of the human sciences, contrasting them to other Areas of Knowledge. It attempts to deconstruct the traditional theory of the human sciences, and lays the groundwork f…
Episode 7: The Arts as an Area of Knowldge
This podcasts considers the subject matter of the arts, and its contributions to knowledge The ways of knowing and the issue of how the arts produce knowledge is reviewed. We will consider how we eva…
Episode 8: Mathematics as an Area of Knowledge
Our review of mathematics begins with a consideration of the scope of mathematics, and compares mathematics to other areas of knowledge. The question of whether math is real or discovered is consider…
Episode 9: Religion as an Area of Knowledge
We begin the podcast by considering the nature of God, and to what degree proofs for the existence of God or Gods are a productive approach to understanding religion. After examining the limitations …
Episode 10: History as an Area of Knowledge
We begin the podcast by considering the scope of history and the unique set of issues that it involves. Next, historical research methods are investigated in order to determine what type of truth his…