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About this course
The purpose of this course is to make explicit through analysis, comparison, and interdisciplinary integration, the concepts of knowledge and their verification in the disciplines of mathematics, natural sciences, human sciences, history, and in moral, political, and aesthetic judgments. The aims of the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) program are to engage you, the candidates, in reflection on, and in the questioning of, the bases of knowdedlge and to develop an understanding that while critically examining knowledge you:
develop a critical capacity to evaluate beliefs and claims, become aware of an make interdisciplinary connections, recognize the uniqueness of knowledge claims vs. beliefs, understand the interpretive nature of knowledge including personal and ideological biases considering that knowledge may place responsibiliites of the knower, understand the strengthes and limitations of individuals and cultures, develop a concern for rigor in formulating knowledge claims, perspectives and intellectual honesty.

