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Homework for week of 4/27-
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Click on the pdf below to go through the list of assignments from Mon and Wed. Use the pdfs on the right for You know what I mean
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TOK assignment: 4/16 Sam Harris TED talk written response: 500 words ( approx) due Wed
Choose One: Note: there are a few more choices than the three discussed in class. Please feel free to choose any of these.
- 1. Sam Harris' basic moral principle is that human morality and human values are reducible to a concern about conscious experience and its possible changes. Do you agree with this?
- 2. Can Science answer moral questions?
- 3. Is Harris correct in his assertion that there are right answers to moral questions? Are there moral facts?
- 4.Is Harris really making an argument about the relationship between Science and moral questions or is he mostly making an argument against moral relativism (the belief that all moral claims/principles are relative to the context of culture and perspective and thus not universally true)?
- 5.Is Harris committing a number of straw man fallacies (building straw men and then knocking them down to make his points seem more valid)?
Helpful references (highly recommended but not required) to incorporate into this assignment but you should be familiar with these ethical frames of reference)
How can I know right from wrong? Open Culture ethics animated link
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More philosophical animations
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TOK assignments Language Part I 3/5/15
You will be asked to write an in-class essay on Language as your midterm exam on Friday. You should read over the tok language unit- taking notes where relevant, re-watch the Pinker RSA and make notes of how different ways of knowing are achieved with language. Look over the areas of knowing and pick one area that you would like to focus on for this upcoming essay.
The mind map and 8 stages of essay creation, which were created by IB TOK teachers to help with essay formatting and writing, should be printed out, read over and the copy should be kept in your notebook.
The mind map and 8 stages of essay creation, which were created by IB TOK teachers to help with essay formatting and writing, should be printed out, read over and the copy should be kept in your notebook.
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Ramachandran video:
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Feb 2/2 SuperBowl Prompts/ assignment/video
long writing response due by Friday 2/6.
Sensory AOK for the remainder of the week
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TOK Final Exam/ Essay- due Fri 12/19
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11/5 Homework
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Damasio Video link
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Homework 10/6
1. Watch the clip from Joshua Knobs- write an outline for what it was about and answer the question posed at the end. Was your original thinking in error? Respond.
2. Watch or (read the Edge transcript to) the HeadCon video of Joshua Knobs on The Notion of Self. Take notes on the thought experiments outline and respond to the questions posed through out. How would your current self respond- do you think it differs from your past or future self?
http://edge.org/panel/headcon-13-part-viii links to video
http://edge.org/documents/headcon13.pdf scroll down the document until you reach the transcript of Knobe's talk.
Homework 9/29 Logical Fallacies
Portfolio Check: these are the list of items that need to be in your folder
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HOMEWORK for 9/16.
- Pardon if the translation isn't working well- the website is stuck on French translation.
- Re-watch the TED talk about motivation ( Pink) and identify all the knowledge claims and also all the claims to expertise/ experts that were presented in the video
- Re-watch the Marshmallow video- do you think that this experiment shows what it asserts? Why was this done in more than one country and in what different cultures do you think this test would not work- why?
- Gather the knowledge claims about high school motivation and whether self- motivation is sufficient to allow for the best outcomes ( from class work last class). Create ways to refute these knowledge claims.
- If you didn't write the knowledge claims during that class time, find someone who did and get them into your notebook. Don't have a notebook yet.... what are you thinking.... it is September already.
- Identify what assumptions I have made in all of the above posting. Identify all your assumptions. Create a column of each and bring to class.
- Send me an email containing one part of the assignment posted on the board ( right hand side) before next class. [email protected]
- All of this is due at the start of next class
Homework: compare modes of communication and think about two modes of communication that you utilize. Be ready to write a reflection in class about communication as modes of transmitting knowledge/information.
read: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/boston-made-the-ice-bucket-challenge-go-big-facebook-says/377159/
Does celebrity involvement change the message?
http://time.com/3111965/here-are-the-11-best-celebrity-ice-bucket-challenge-videos/
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LOL Cats to make one think about rules of logic and how to apply them. |
Defending Science- an exchangeTaken directly from the New York Times Opinionator section, the March 11th commentary dealt with the following. Philosopher and scientist discuss. The link to the page is below the synopsis. Last fall, after Michael Lynch’s essay “Reasons for Reason” appeared in The Stone, he began correspondence with the physicist, mathematician and writer Alan Sokal about the nature and limits of scientific rationality. The following exchange is adapted from that original dialogue. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/defending-science-an-exchange/ Defending Humanities from Sciencehttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/bodies-in-motion-an-exchange/
Science Heretic in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/05/rupert-sheldrake-interview-science-delusion |
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What up with science? The Streetlight EffectTo find out about why science research is so often proved wrong, and why a now classic paper showed that 0% of economic research proved anything conclusive, read the following Discover Magazine article.http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/29-why-scientific-studies-often-wrong-streetlight-effect/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=
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This is an article about alcohol and 'race'. Some people have a genetic change which results in them not metabolizing alcohol thus inducing an alcohol 'flush'. How is race determined, who gets to state what race is? Is race cultural, geographical or genetic? How do you know what is being meant by race? Who gets to decide and in what context is it relevant?Loaded questions...or Have you stopped beating your donkey?Getting to the truth
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Physics envy, or the application of scientific principles to evaluate social sciences? Read Sean Carroll's very concise and readable reply to a New York Times op ed piece by two political scientists taking that tack.
Social sciences and 'hard' sciences ( chemistry/physics/biology etc) have had an uneasy relationship over the 'ownership' or definition of the term science.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/04/02/testing-your-theories-is-not-a-matter-of-envy/
Social sciences and 'hard' sciences ( chemistry/physics/biology etc) have had an uneasy relationship over the 'ownership' or definition of the term science.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/04/02/testing-your-theories-is-not-a-matter-of-envy/
Brain makes you think? Two neuroscientists argue this in the linked article below.
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived..... Chris Cleave
Critical ThinkingThis might help you in arguments with your parents or friends perhaps. How to argue a point. Series on Youtube
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The Prozac Yogurt Effect
When an artist's work is reported on and the writer's report gets reported on and that gets reported on, facts get blurred. Does this help or hurt science? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/03/06/the-prozac-yogurt-effect-how-hype-can-affect-the-future-of-science/#comment-12982
Arguable title and premise
How to be creative: The science of genius. Wow is that a loaded title given to an article on Mashable Read the interview with Jonah Leher who's new book Imagine has recently come out. Does the title fit?
http://mashable.com/2012/04/02/creativity-jonah-lehrer-imagine/
http://mashable.com/2012/04/02/creativity-jonah-lehrer-imagine/
The Title Says it ALL: Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies
A website devoted to helping keep to this 'commandment'http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
Infographic for Class and amusement:http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
A website devoted to helping keep to this 'commandment'http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
Infographic for Class and amusement:http://www.yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
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Medical Knowledge-- Not always
Read the article from the New Scientists that looks at medical research reproducibility, a tenet of good science.http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528826.000-is-medical-science-built-on-shaky-foundations.html
Tools to Transform Thinking lecture, (IQ)(IQ)
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Massimo Pigliucci: Epictetus on people who refuse to reason.
If a man objects to truths that are all too evident, it is no easy task finding arguments that will change his mind. [2] This is proof neither of his own strength nor of his teacher’s weakness. When someone caught in an argument hardens to stone, there is just no more reasoning with them. |