Big Question #1: Can we trust our immediate knowledge of the world?
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
key_concepts_-_bq1.docx |
Source Materials:
Rationalism versus Empiricism
Sense Perception
False Memory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhcp6dOKd
well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/was-brian-williams-a-victim-of-false-memory/?_r=2
Hierarchy of the Senses
Class slides and text chapters can be found in the Managebac "Files" tab.
Rationalism versus Empiricism
- BBC Podcast: "Rene Descartes - 'I Think, Therefore I am'"
- TOK.net Reading - ""What Is Knowledge?"
Sense Perception
- TED - David Eagleman: "Can We Create New Senses for Humans?"
- TED - Beau Lotto: "Optical Illusions Show How We See."
False Memory
- BBC - Eyewitness Testimony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhcp6dOKd
- TED - Elizabeth Loftus: "How Reliable Is Your Memory?"
- NY Times video and blog entry - Brian Williams Helicopter Crash
well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/was-brian-williams-a-victim-of-false-memory/?_r=2
Hierarchy of the Senses
- How Important Is Our Sense of Taste?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dave-drummond/sense-of-taste_b_3672927.html - How Does It Feel to Live With No Sense of Smell?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150811-how-it-feels-to-live-with-no-smell - A World Without Scent
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/world-without-scent-smell-anosmia/404749/ - How Our Sense of Touch Affects Everything We
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/neuroscience-touch_n_6489050.html
Class slides and text chapters can be found in the Managebac "Files" tab.