IB ToK Essay Titles and Topics: Nov 2015

Here are links to the full titles of the six Nov 2015 IB ToK Essay topics:

• Topic 1. Producing knowledge and solving problems
• Topic 2. Models and the production of knowledge
• Topic 3. Verification of knowledge by a group
• Topic 4. Complexity of knowledge and its simpler components
• Topic 5. Knowledge and a single way of knowing
• Topic 6. Knowledge, Explanation and Prediction

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Title 1: "The main reason knowledge is produced is to solve problems." To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Thoughts to consider with essay 1 include:

• the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge
• the distinction between practical and theoretical problems
• what does the production of knowledge consist in?

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Title 2: Assess the advantages and disadvantages of using models to produce knowledge of the world.

Thoughts to consider with essay 2 include:

• the distinction between practical and theoretical knowledge
• the difference between theoretical and practical models
• what does the production of knowledge consist in?

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Title 3: "Without the group to verify it, knowledge is not possible." Discuss

Thoughts to consider with essay 3 include:

• the distinction between theoretical and practical knowledge
• what does the verifying knowledge consist in?
• are there kinds of private knowledge that can't be verified by a group?

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Title 4: "In some areas of knowledge we try to reduce a complex whole to simple components, but in others we try to integrate simple components into a complex whole." Discuss this distinction with reference to two areas of knowledge.

Thoughts to consider with essay 4 include:

• the varieties of complexity
• the relation between complex/simple ideas and complex/simple objects
• the relation between concepts and propositions

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Title 5: "No knowledge can be produced by a single way of knowing. " Discuss.

Thoughts to consider with essay 5 include:

• the difference between practical and theoretical knowledge
• are some ways of knowing more fundamental than others?
• Kant and the synthesis of knowledge from reason and experience

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Title 6: Is explanation a prerequisite for prediction? Explore this question in relation to two areas of knowledge.

Thoughts to consider with essay 6 include:

• can we predict some phenomenon without explaining it?
• can we explain some phenomenon without predicting it?
• are there degrees of knowledge?

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