What if they held a blog party and nobody posted?

We've begun to define the course together and as your last posts show, you have a strong grasp of the ways we are thinking and approaching both issues and knowledge.  For Thursday morning, let's all take Jane's advice: post a question that you would like us to tackle together.  Delve into your bags of thinky awesomeness and pull out a stumper.  We'll chew on some of them together on Thursday and use that process as a way of beginning our relationship with formal logic.

There's Something Happening Here

What it is ain't exactly clear.  For Tuesday, please write a one paragraph (approximately 500 characters) course description for TOK.  Think about what we do, how we do it, and why we're here (in the course, not in existence.  That's a different course).  If you wish, this could also be an opportunity to suggest reshapings of the course: describe what it is and what it could or should be.

Only Uncertainty Is Certain

For your first post in our consideration of Experimental Science as a way of knowing, please transcribe your science quotation, then provide a close reading of the text, along the lines of our group work from today.  Patiently follow your ideas to their ends, and embrace multiplicity of meaning.  Do this writing for Thursday morning.  For next Tuesday, please read and respond to the post below yours from the first round (if you are the final poster from the first round, respond to the first post).  Augment your classmate's reading with your own analysis, both of the text she provides and of her close reading.  Critique, refute, reinforce, explore.  We will pick up the discussions in our next classes.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane...

Taking the wonderful Colossal as your source, choose an exhibit in which the artist employs some form of creative re-tasking: the use of an object, idea, pattern, material in a way other than that for which it was originally intended.  Consider in your writing the ways that your knowledge of the medium's original purpose influences your understanding of the piece(s) the artist has created.  Please come to class ready to discuss the work you select, and paste a link to the work into your post (if you click on the title of the article in question you will be redirected to a discrete page).

Who's In Charge Here?

Let's think about free will (follow this for a new reading) and how we choose (you'll need an hour for this one).  Do some writing for Tuesday morning in which you reflect on the decisions you make in the process of decoding these implications.  NB: you're writing about your observations of the ways you are thinking, not just what you are thinking.  To what extent are your understandings decisions that you control?  Are you in command of the knowledge that you create?