Theory of Knowledge : a core collection (2008)
Compiled by Anne-Yvonne Bouvier (and John Royce)
GENERAL, THEORIES of KNOWLEDGE
Abel, Reuben. Man is the measure : a cordial invitation to the central problems of philosophy -- New York : Free Press,
[1997], c1976.
Alchin, Nicholas. Theory of knowledge -- London: John Murrayr, 2006.
Benesch, Walter. Introduction to comparative philosophy: a travel guide to philosophical space. – New ed. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Cohen, Martin. 101 philosophy problems – 3rd ed. -- London: Taylor & Francis 2007.
Law, Stephen. The philosophy files / illustrated by Daniel Postgate. -- London : Orion, 2000..
Osborne, Richard. Philosophy for beginners / illustrated by Ralph Edney. -- London : for beginners, 2007.
Russell, Bertrand. The problems of philosophy / Bertrand Russell. Introduction by John Skorupski. -- 2nd ed. – Oxford ;
OUP, 1998.
Russell, Bertrand. An inquiry into meaning and truth. – New ed. -- London : Taylor & Francis, 1996.
“Simpsons” and philosophy: the D’oh! Of Homer / ed. by William Irwin [et al.] – La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 2001.
Thompson, Mel. Philosophy -- London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.
Van de Lagemaat, Richard. Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Woolman, Michael. Ways of knowing: an introduction to theory of knowledge -- Victoria: IBID Press, 2000.
A young person's guide to philosophy : "I think, therefore I am" / consultant editor: Jeremy Weate; illustrated by Peter
Lawman. -- London : Dorling Kindersley, c1998. .
RATIONALISM, THOUGHT AND THINKING
Armstrong, Tricia. The whole-brain solution : thinking tools to help students observe, make connections and solve
problems. Markham, Ontario : Pembroke Publishers, 2003.
Barker, Dan. Maybe yes, maybe no : a guide for young skeptics / illustrated by Brian Strassburg. – Buffalo, N.Y.:
Prometheus Books, 1990.
Baillargeon, Normand. . A short course in intellectual self-defense. .
De Bono, Edward. Teaching thinking.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England : Penguin Books, 1991.
Fisher, Alec. Critical thinking : an introduction.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Fletcher, Alan. The art of looking sideways – London: Phaidon, 2001..
Hammond, Eugene. Critical thinking, thoughtful writing / Eugene R. Hammond. -- 2nd ed. -- New York: McGraw-Hill,
c1989.
Law, Stephen. The philosophy gym : 25 short adventures in thinking / illustrated by Daniel Postgate. London : Headline
Book Pub., 2004, c2003.
Mayer, Richard E. Thinking, problem solving, cognition -- 2nd ed. -- New York: W.H. Freeman, c1991.
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PERCEPTION
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo. Inevitable illusions : how mistakes of reason rule our minds / translated by Massimo
Piattelli-Palmarini and Keith Botsford. -- New York: Wiley, c1994.
Pinker, Steven. How the mind works -- New York : W.W. Norton, 1999, c1997.
Shepard, Roger N. Mind sights : original visual illusions, ambiguities, and other anomalies, with a commentary on the
play of mind in perception and art -- New York : W.H. Freeman, c1990.
ETHICS
Applied ethics / edited by Peter Singer. -- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. .
Biomedical ethics : opposing viewpoints / Tamara L. Roleff, book editor. – San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, c1998.
Bioethics : an anthology / edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. – Oxford ; Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Doctor assisted suicide and the euthanasia movement / [edited by] Gary E. McCuen. – Hudson, Wis.: G. E. McCuen
Publications, c1994.
Ethical theory 2 : theories about how we should live / edited by James Rachels. -- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1998.
The ethics of genetic engineering / Lisa Yount, book editor. -- San Diego : Greenhaven
Press, c2002.
Glover, Jonathan. Causing death and saving lives -- Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1990.
International ethics / edited by Charles R.Beitz,Marshall Cohen,Thomas Scanlon and A.John Simmons. -- Princeton, New
Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1985.
Jenkins, Joe. Ethics & religion -- Oxford : Heinemann, 1999.
Jenkins, Joe. Contemporary moral issues / Joe Jenkins. 4th ed. -- Oxford : Heinemann Educational, 2002.
Jussim, Daniel. Medical ethics : moral and legal conflicts in health care -- Englewood Cliffs, NJ : J.
Messner, c1991.
Moral controversies : race, class, and gender in applied ethics / edited by Steven Jay Gold. -- Belmont, Calif.:
Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1993.
Nagel, Thomas. Mortal questions – New ed. -- Cambridge: CUP, 1991.
Pojman, Louis P. Ethics : discovering right and wrong -- Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1990.
Robinson, Dave. Ethics for beginners / Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt ; ed. by R. Appignanesi. -- London : Icon Books,
1997, c1996.
Sherrow, Victoria. Bioethics and high-tech medicine -- New York : Twenty-First Century Books, 1996.
Singer, Peter. Animal liberation -- 2nd ed., with a new preface by the author. -- London : Pimlico, 1995.
Singer, Peter. How are we to live? : ethics in an age of self-interest -- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997, c1995.
Singer, Peter. Practical ethics -- 2nd ed. -- Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Singer, Peter. Rethinking life and death: the collapse of our traditional ethics –
Oxford: OUP, 1995.
Snedden, Robert. Medical ethics : changing attitudes 1900-2000 -- Hove, Eng. : Wayland, 1999.
Thompson, Mel. Ethics -- London : Hodder & Stoughton, c2003.
Velasquez, Manuel G. Business ethics : concepts and cases – 5th international ed. – Harlow, Essex: Pearson, 2003.
Walker, Joe. Environmental ethics -- London : Hodder & Stoughton educational, c2000.
Walker, Richard. A right to die? -- London : Franklin Watts, 1997, c1996.
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Wilcockson, Michael. Issues of life and death -- London : Hodder & Stoughton educational, c1999.
Williams, Bernard. Ethics and the limits of philosophy -- Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Wright, Robert. The moral animal : evolutionary psychology and everyday life -- London : Abacus, c1994.
RELIGION
Cole, Peter. Philosophy and religion -- London : Hodder & Stoughton educational, c1999.
Davis, Paul. God and the new physics – New ed. -- London : Penguin Books, 1990.
Dawkins, Richard, The God delusion -- New York : Bantam, 2006.
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Richards, H. J. Philosophy of religion -- Oxford : Heinemann, 1998.
Thompson, Mel. Religion and science -- London : Hodder & Stoughton educational, c2000.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Eagleton, Terry. Marx : and freedom / Consulting editors: Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael. -- London : Phoenix, 1998,
c1997.
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism : On liberty ; Considerations on representative government ; Remarks on Bentham's
philosophy / Ed. by G. Williams. -- New ed. -- London : Dent, 1993.
Selbourne, David. The principle of duty : an essay on the foundations of the civic order -- London : Sinclair- Stevenson,
1994.
LANGUAGE
Chomsky, Noam. Powers and prospects : reflections on human nature and the social order -- London : Pluto Press,
c1996.
Gopnik, Alison, Andrew N. Meltzoff, and Patricia K. Kuhl. The scientist in the crib: what early learning tells us about the
mind. New York: Harper Perennial, 2001.
Hanfling, Oswald. A.J. Ayer : analysing what we mean / Consulting editors: Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael. – London :
Phoenix, c1997.
Levinson, Stephen C. Pragmatics -- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1983.
Mills, Sara. Discourse -- London ; Routledge, 1997.
Pinker, Steven. The language instinct : how the mind creates language – 1st Perennial Classics ed. -- New York :
Perennial Classics, 2000, c1994.
Poole, Steven. Unspeak. London: Little, Brown, 2006.
Steiner, George. Language and silence : essays -- Yale: Yale University Press, 1998
Tannen, Deborah. Gender and discourse -- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
MATHEMATICS
Ascher, Marcia Ethnomathematics : a multicultural view of mathematical ideas – Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall, 1998
Davis, Philip J. Descartes' dream : the world according to mathematics -- London : Penguin, c1990.
Davis, Philip J. The mathematical experience -- 1st Mariner books ed. -- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998
Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold). A mathematician's apology -- Canto ed. – Cambridge; CUP, 1992.
Kaplan, Robert
The nothing that is: a natural history of zero – New York: OUP, 2000.
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SLakoff, George. Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being – New
York: Basic Books, 2000
Pappas, Theony
Mathematical scandals -- San Carlos: Wide World Edition, 1997
SCIENCES
Aicken, Frederick. The nature of science -- 2nd ed. -- Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, c1991.
Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of physics : an exploration of the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism -3rd ed., expanded. -- London : Flamingo, 1992.
Capra, Fritjof. The turning point : science, society, and the rising culture -- London : Flamingo Books, 1983, c1982.
Chalmers, A. F. (Alan Francis). What is this thing called science? -- 3rd ed. -- Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., c1999.
Davies, Paul. Are we alone? : philosophical implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life – London : Penguin
Books, 1995..
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-. The blind watchmaker : why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design -New York : Norton, 1996.
Dawkins, Richard. Unweaving the rainbow : science, delusion and the appetite for wonder -- Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1998.
Dennett, Daniel Clement. Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of life -- London : Penguin, c1995.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Bully for brontosaurus: reflections in natural history -- London : Penguin, 1992.
Hempel, Carl Gustav. Philosophy of natural science -- Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, [1966].
Hofstadter, Douglas R. Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid -- 20th anniversary ed. -- Harmondsworth : Penguin
Books, 2000.
Horgan, John. The end of science : facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age -- London :
Abacus, 1998, c1996.
Kitcher, Philip. The advancement of science : science without legend, objectivity without illusions – New York : OUP,
1993. .
Lewontin, Richard C. The doctrine of DNA : biology as ideology -- London : Penguin Books, 1993, c[1991]..
Mayr, Ernst. The growth of biological thought : diversity, evolution, and inheritance -- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap
Press, 1982.
Medawar, P. B. (Peter Brian). The strange case of the spotted mice and other classic essays on science / Foreword by
Stephen Jay Gould. – Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1996.
Nagel, Ernest. The structure of science : problems in the logic of scientific explanation -- New ed. – Indianapolis, IN:
Hackett, 1987.. .
Philosophy of science : the central issues / Martin Curd, J.A. Cover, [editors]. -- 1st ed. – N. Y.: W.W. Norton, c1998.
Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir. The logic of scientific discovery. New ed. -- London : Taylor & Francis, 2002..
Smullyan, Raymond M. The lady or the tiger? and other logic puzzles : including a mathematical novel that features
Gödel's great discovery – Oxford: OUP, 1991.
Ziman, John. Reliable knowledge: an exploration of the grounds of belief in science – New ed. – Cambridge: CUP, 1991.
Zohar, Danah. The quantum self : a revolutionary view of human nature and consciousness rooted in the new physics - 1st ed. – London : Bloomsbury, c1990.
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ART/ AESTHETICS
.Graham, Gordon. Philosophy of the arts : an introduction to aesthetics – 2nd ed. -- London ; Routledge, 2000.
Harris, James F. (James Franklin). Philosophy at 33 1/3 rpm : themes of classic rock music -- Chicago, Ill. : Open Court,
1993.
“Matrix” and philosophy: welcome to the desert of the real / ed. by William Irwin – La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 2002.
Shlain, Leonard. Art & physics : parallel visions in space, time, and light -- 1st Quill ed. -- New York : Quill/W. Morrow,
[1993], c1991.
Wollheim, Richard. Art and its objects / With six supplementary essays. -- 2nd ed. -- Cambridge :CUP, 1996.
Yenawine, Philip. How to look at modern art -- New York : H.N. Abrams, 1991.
HISTORY
Carr, Edward Hallett. What is history? : the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of
Cambridge January- March 1961. -- 40th Anniversary ed., rev. ed. – London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George). The idea of history. – New ed. -- New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Dray, William H. Philosophy of history. – 2nd ed. – Pearson Higher Education, 1992.
Evans, Richard J. In defence of history / Richard J. Evans. -- London : Granta, 2000, c1997.
Jenkins, Keith. Re-thinking history -- London ; Routledge, 1991.
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph. A study of history – New ed. of abridged ed. -- London : Thames and Hodson, 1989
In addition, several publishers now offer resources developed specifically for the IB
Diploma, which give clear links to TOK throughout each subject matter (e.g. History,
Biology, etc). Check out series from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press,
Heinemann…
JOURNALS
Most science magazines offer useful articles:
Discover
http://www.discovermagazine.com
New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com
Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com
Skeptical Inquirer
http://www.csicop/org
The philosophers magazine http://www.philosophers.co.uk
(the interactive games section here is very good)
Prospect
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk
Teaching philosophy
http://www.pdcnet.org
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Think
http://www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org/think
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WEBSITES : ToK take-off points
Dothetest
www.dothetest.co.uk/
also on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_9INBPUX9U
Forum: a resource for Theory of Knowledge teachers
http://www.adastranet.net/forum/
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (check out the Miscellany links)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm#miscellany
IB Theory of Knowledge ibtok.com : links
http://ibtok.com/tok_links/
ibtok.com discussion forum
http://pub20.bravenet.com/forum/1657672335/
inthinking
http://www.inthinking.co.uk/
Julian Beever's pavement drawings
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm
Mr. Duncan & Ms. Chambers Theory of Knowledge Web Page
http://teachers.colonelby.com/bduncan/
TED : Ideas Worth Spreading (Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/
Theory of Knowledge : International Baccalaureate (Coral Reef High School)
http://amyscott.com/theory_of_knowledge.htm
Theory of Knowledge (TOK) : Nørre Gymnasium
http://www.norreg.dk/tok/
Visual Cognition Lab
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html
Whoops! Blunders and Mistakes of Science and Engineering
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/whoops.htm
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