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<a class="wiki_link" href="/Climate%20Change">Climate Change Questions</a> 
 
<h1><a class="wiki_link" href="/History%20KI">History Knowledge Issues</a></h1>
 
 
 
Tok Prescribed Titles 
November 2009 and May 2010 
 
General Guidelines 
· 1200-1600 words 
· Stay focused on Knowledge Issues 
· Refer to other parts of your IB Program 
· Refer to your own personal experiences as a knower 
· Justify your statements 
· Provide relevant examples to illustrate your arguments 
· Pay attention to the implications of your arguments 
· Consider what might be said against your arguments 
 
 
Choose one of the following: 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/is%20truth%20different%20in%20mathematics%2C%20the%20arts%20and%20ethics%3F">1. To what extent is truth different in mathematics, the arts and ethics?</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/2.%20Examine%20the%20ways%20empirical%20evidence%20should%20be%20used%20to%20make%20progress%20in%20different%20areas%20of">2. Examine the ways empirical evidence should be used to make progress in different areas of knowledge</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/3.%20Discuss%20the%20strengths%20and%20limitations%20of%20quantitative%20and%20qualitative">3. Discuss the strengths and limitations of quantitative and qualitative data in supporting knowledge claims in the human sciences and at least one other area o knowledge.</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/4%20truth%20versus%20belief">4. How can the different ways of knowing help us to distinguish between something that is true and something that is believed to be true?</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/What%20separates%20science%20from%20all%20other%20human%20activities">5. “What separates science from all other human activities is its belief in the provisional nature of all conclusions: (Michael Shermer, www.edge.org). Critically evaluate this way of distinguishing the sciences from other areas of knowledge</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/6.%20All%20knowledge%20claims%20should%20be%20open%20to%20rational%20criticism">6. All knowledge claims should be open to rational criticism. On what ground and to what extent would you agree with this assertion?</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/7%20As%20they%20are%20or%20as%20we%20are">7. “We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing.</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/8.%20order%20can%20be%20glimpsed%20in%20the%20chaos%20of%20events">8. “People need to believe that order can be glimpsed in the chaos of events&quot; (adapted from John Gray, Heresies, 2004). In what ways and to what extent would you say this claim is relevant in at least two areas of knowledge?</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/some%20areas%20of%20knowledge%20are%20discovered%20and%20others%20are%20invented">9. Discuss the claim that some areas of knowledge are discovered and others are invented.</a> 
<a class="wiki_link" href="/similarities%20and%20differences%20are%20there%20between%20historical%20and%20scientific%20explanations">10. What similarities and differences are there between historical and scientific explanations?</a>