eBook
The knowledge of politics and the politics of knowledge
How are politics and knowledge related? Knowledge is deeply political. If access to knowledge is a good thing - and most people agree that it is - then who should have this access is a question of distribution...
eBook
Knowledge and Language: Ethics
How should we use language ethically? In this page, we look at the ways in which language can be used to create harm and the various movements that have attempted to act against this harm. Under what...
eBook
Knowledge and Language: Methods and Tools
This page looks at the linguistic methods and tools that typically help us make knowledge. We start with metaphor which can be found in every area of knowledge and optional theme. We then take another...
eBook
Knowledge and Language: Perspectives 2
This page looks more closely at how our own knowledge may be shaped by language, even to the extent that it determines how we see the world. Sapir Whorf and linguistic relativity For much of the history...
eBook
Knowledge and Language: Perspectives 1
Whether we like it or not, language reveals a lot about us. It contains social markers that identify various groups we belong to. Perhaps the most obvious of these is class, but others, such as age and...
eBook
Knowledge and Language: Scope 2
One of the most important functions of language is creating, maintaining, and changing social facts. A social fact is a fact about our social lives, such as being married or whether a piece of paper counts...
eBook
Knowledge and Language: Scope 1
Language literally holds our world together. We use it to express our thoughts and intentions, to make promises, to establish relationships, to negotiate, to argue, to write poetry, to tell jokes, and...
eBook
Knowledge and Language
Language literally holds our world together. We use it to express our thoughts and intentions, to make promises, to establish relationships, to negotiate, to argue, to write poetry, to tell jokes, and......
eBook
Knowledge Virtues
Another, perhaps more personal, way to think of ethics in the Core Theme is in terms of the virtues that we need to be good knowers. Remember that ethics in ToK should always be linked to knowledge. We...
eBook
Knowledge Stakeholders
When we talk about perspectives, we may be talking about different groups of people (or knowledge communities) having different points of view regarding certain knowledge. These perspectives might depend...