Reason and EmotionROUND 2: AUTONOMY, MASTERY, AND PURPOSE

Question

You have met the person of your dreams.

This person is funny

This person is smart

This person completes you in everyway

However, this person is between jobs

And lives in their parent’s basement

And only has an old Schwinn for transportation

What do you do?

TOK Website

Mr. Hoyes TOK website

http://mrhoyestokwebsite.com/

This is a very inspirational site to use for a resource.

The assignment

You will be able to work in groups which split the class into the magic number 9 (unless you are Japanese….then ignore the 9….it isn’t so bad) to investigate a topic related to Reason or Emotion (within a set of topics).

You will be able to use any source needed to cover that topic

You will present your findings any way you see fitting in celebration of our achievements to take place on Tuesday and Friday (or the other time we meet that week) of next week.

Topics

Deductive reasoning Inductive reasoning Informal reasoning Reason and certainty Lateral thinking Nature of emotions

Emotions as an obstacle to knowledge

Emotions as a source of knowledge

Intuition

Format

Investigate an academic source – someone who has researched this, given a TED talk on this, essentially an authority on the subject.

Be sure to: validate the source for Bias, Doubt, Certainty, etc.

Addressing: a real life situation that has motivated you to attempt to understand that issue.

Include: Knowledge claims and Knowledge questions.

Suggest further implications of your study.