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TOK Aims, Objectives and Assessment Criteria

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TOK Aims, Objectives and Assessment Criteria

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An analysis of critical thinking descriptors

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Theory of Knowledge aims, objectives and assessment criteria- An analysis of critical thinking descriptors

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A collection of TOK games put together by TOK teacher Danny Wall (SCIS-HQ, Shanghai).

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Over two dozen fun and engaging Games to enliven and enrich your classroom! Launch meaningful discussion out of fun and energetic activities! These games have been played and tested with high school students of the IB Diploma Programme for more than three years.

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Mentioned by Keith (I think)

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Structure and Vocabulary - TOK Presentation

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Emotions - scientific bias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4e5YuXELUk

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The Essay Boot camp was really useful. It pushed us and really put us in the shoes of our students.  Also, looking at the assessments for the essay, really helped my understanding of the essay objectives themselves. 

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The Essay Boot camp was really useful. It pushed us and really put us in the shoes of our students.  Also, looking at the assessments for the essay, really helped my understanding of the essay objectives themselves. 

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that the TOK presentation assessment was really based on the end product. NOW I understand that it's a more staged, cumulative process in which the student's reflection is important throughout - and MY assessment/ comment has to be absolutely specific and focused.

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I used think mathematics was a challenging AOK to link with other areas of the course curriculum, but now I am much more comfortable with it.

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I used to think that TOK is a subject on its own but now I think TOK is part of our evolutionary adventure.

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I used to think that TOK is a subject on its own but now I think TOK is part of our evolutionary adventure.

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I used to think:
1) the PPD was very extensive and was a large predictor of student grades
2) Essays are hard to break down and analyze
3) There is one structure that would primarily be best to follow for a presentation
Now I:
1) There are a variety of resources and small tips that will enable me to moderate more effectively
2) That not having the conversation end but rather continue at the end of the lesson may be more effective
3) the presentation is more open ended and still complex in regards to how it can be formed and developed as presentation skills are not directly assessed.

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I used to think that the course was overly complicated and now I think the course is fairly straightforward due to practical experience of different topics, assessment processes and especially use of the knowledge framework.

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that TOK was a really tricky subject for students to grasp
Now I think ..... that if the structures are in place clearly then its accessible to all!

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i used to think presentation is assessed/ moderated based on the recording we have submitted. I now know that it's basically based on the PPD and the teachers' comments. 

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i used to think presentation is assessed/ moderated based on the recording we have submitted. I now know that it's basically based on the PPD and the teachers' comments. 

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I used to think that TOK focused a lot on WOKs, with some attention to AOKs.
Now I understand how they need to work simultaneously while teaching to give the students a better understanding of how to interact with these terms.
I used to think that the TKPPD was very painful and counter-productive.
Now I understand the benefit it can have for the planning the presentations.

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I used to think TOK essay planning was far more straight forward.

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I used to think TOK essay planning was far more straight forward.

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I used to think that the presentation was graded based on what was actually presented in the presentation, with the TKPPD acting as a mere supporting document.  Now I know that the TKPPD is the central evidence for the presentation grading and should be completed with much greater focus and care (by both the students and instructor).

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I used to think that there was no connection between sex and math.

Now I think that math may be the key to a  stable marriage.

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I use to think that most of the TOK essays followed a similar outline and framework, however, I realized after the CAT 2 that the way an essay is outlined and the fact that a Knowledge question itself doesn't have to be a question thru me off on the grading of an example essay.  It helped me think of new ways to look at TOK Essays.  Furthermore, I learned that adding an overall implication in the conclusion makes the essay stronger. 

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I use to think that most of the TOK essays followed a similar outline and framework, however, I realized after the CAT 2 that the way an essay is outlined and the fact that a Knowledge question itself doesn't have to be a question thru me off on the grading of an example essay.  It helped me think of new ways to look at TOK Essays.  Furthermore, I learned that adding an overall implication in the conclusion makes the essay stronger. 

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The issues in understanding how to interpret the necessary structure for ToK presentations and the essay have become much more clear. Moreover, the interpretation and use of the rubric has been clarified -- to some extent. I still find some ambiguity, but I'm much better off now then I was previously.
I was also unsure of how to teach or present the areas of knowledge. Breaking down the knowledge framework in the areas of knowledge for the natural sciences and the human sciences was very useful.
I'm also clear on the expectations with regards to the ppf and ppd forms. I have a lot of good resources and information to bring back to my colleagues. I'm very happy with what I was able to get out of the conference. Thank you, Rajesh

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that the map metaphor was limited in its application and usefulness to students understanding of TOK-land. Now I see that it is an invaluable way into TOK as a subject that can be used to help students see the big picture of TOK, the overall concept. The ideas from the Age of Enlightenment were invaluable in understanding this and this enabled me to understand the significance of models to TOK.

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I use to think that TOK was heavily/ completely philosophical. I was extremely nervous and insecure with my ability to grasp TOK concepts and ideas. I now, as an Art teacher and English teacher, realize that TOK already plays a heavy role in my personal and professional life. I am extremely excited to bring all the ideas I've learned within the workshop into my future class. This will be my first year teaching TOK, and I know I have much to learn, and always will, but I am now not intimidated...I'm ready. :) Thank you everyone! You all are so inspiring! Thank you for the support, resources, and ideas! :)

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I use to think that TOK was heavily/ completely philosophical. I was extremely nervous and insecure with my ability to grasp TOK concepts and ideas. I now, as an Art teacher and English teacher, realize that TOK already plays a heavy role in my personal and professional life. I am extremely excited to bring all the ideas I've learned within the workshop into my future class. This will be my first year teaching TOK, and I know I have much to learn, and always will, but I am now not intimidated...I'm ready. :) Thank you everyone! You all are so inspiring! Thank you for the support, resources, and ideas! :)

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The PPD Form

The Describe, State & Explain are the most important parts. The student should show that they know what they are setting out to achieve in the presentation and that they have gone through a process to achieve this. If Explain box has been completed well then examiner will see that they have understood what they are trying to do. This is the box where they make clear the link between their KQ and the RLS - how an exploration of the KQ will help us to better understand the RLS. How can I use TOK to better understand the world around me is the central purpose of the presentation.

Teacher comment should be gender neutral. Outline section can be in bullet points as this will save words. Idea here is to show the structure of the presentation and how it links and flows between the different elements. Don't need to go into great detail into what the detail will look like, just show how you will unpack the positions. For example, the framework of analysing the 2-3 perspectives within the RLS and the implications of each one (mini-conclusions).

Show section is not particularly about conclusions but more about implications and how your exploration has led you to understand the RLS better. What generalisations can you make that can then be applied to other RLS. So what have I learned about ethics for example that I can apply to other ethical situations. What can you do with the new understanding gained about the RLS to other situations?

In Teacher section you have to link the criteria to the presentation explicitly. Main criticism is of teachers simply repeating the criteria verbatim without explain or demonstrating how the presentation has demonstrated this.

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Art and the authority of the institution, artist, and audience. 

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Art and the authority of the institution, artist, and audience. 

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Artist to focus on if you want to look into the classification of art through of differing theories.

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Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Sorry not to be in regular blogging mode at the moment. Here's a video of our evidence session to parliament, where they are running an inquiry into research integrity. I think clinical trials are the best possible way to approach this issue. Lots of things in "research integrity" are hard to capture in hard logical rules,Â so you end up with waffly "concordats" and rules that are applied inconsistently. With clinical trials you can make clear rules, you can measure compliance, and you can enforce compliance. There is lots of chat about this in the video below from 17:37 with me, Simon Read the rest of this entry "

Regular readers will be familiar with this Hereâ€™s a paper, and associated website , that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare their public commitments on trials transparency. ongoing battle. In medicine we use the results of clinical trials to make informed treatments about which treatments work best; but the results of clinical trials are being routinely and legally withheld from doctors, researchers, and patients. This is a problem for industry sponsored trials, and for trials funded by governments and charities.

So what did we find? The results on the individual companies are important, but we also came across some fascinating patterns. While companies superficially have commitments to register and report clinical trials, in reality, there are often huge gaps in their policies, with many failing to include past trials (trials on the medicines we use today) and trials on off-label uses or unlicensed medicines, which are both important. We also found a huge of commitments, which is exactly what audits are good for: identify whoâ€™s doing well, and whoâ€™s doing badly, so that everyone can learn from the best players. Lastly, as we went along we collected some fascinating examples of problematic policies, ambiguous language, inconsistent commitments, odd exclusions, and so on.

Overall this audit was a huge project, and we hope it will be widely used. You can see which companies are the best, and the worst. If youâ€™re a researcher trying to get information on a trial from a company, you can this to determine whether a company are breaching their commitments. If youâ€™re an ethical investor (at the campaign we have a network of dozens, covering â‚¬3.5t trillion of investments) you can this to guide your activist investment choices.Â

The full methods and results can be read, for free, in the paper. But weâ€™ve also built a nice interactive Â with mySociety Â (coming soon) Â to make the data more accessible. We think this is an important aspect of communicating results and making them useful, and used, and weâ€™re keen for feedback on the site.

Coming next, we have ranked the policies of non-industry trial funders, and that paper will land shortly. We also have some great new and improved projects launching soon where we track the performance of institutions, rather than their promises: the proportion of their completed trials for which they have shared results. Meanwhile, you can readÂ more about the battle for unreported clinical trials at AllTrials.net .

By now I hope you all know about the ongoing global scandal of clinical trial results being left unpublished, and of course our AllTrials campaign. Doctors, researchers, and patients cannot make truly informed choices about which treatments work best if they don't have access to all the trial results. Earlier this year, I helped out with a World Health Organisation project to get non-industry clinical trial funders signed up to making better policies on transparency.Â This BMJ editorial (sorry, I'm late posting it, published last month!) describes the new commitments, and why this commitment is more convincing than previous vaguer statements.Â Read the rest of this entry "

Robin Ince just asked if I know any epidemiologist lightbulb jokes. I wrote this for him.

How many epidemiologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Weâ€™ve found 12,000 switches hidden around the house. Some of them turn this lightbulb on, some of them donâ€™t; some of them only work sometimes; and some of them work sometimes, but twenty years after you flick them. Some of the switches only work, sometimes, twenty years later, if one of the other switches is flicked too (and at the right time). In any case the wiringâ€™s rusty, everythingâ€™s completely different in the house next door, and by the way there are lots of people selling spare bulbs who tell lies about houses, switches, and fingers.

We can change the lightbulb, but Iâ€™m not sure thatâ€™ll stop you dying from cancer in this metaphor.

People oftenÂ talk about "trials transparency" as if this means "all trials must be published in an academic journal". In reality, true transparency goes much further than this. We need Clinical Study Reports, and individual patient data, of course. But we also need the consent forms, so we can see what patients were told. We need the analytic code, so we can seeÂ exactly how the data were analysed. We need access toÂ post-publication peer review, so we canÂ see what design flaws others have identified. And we don't just need these things to be publicly available, in some form or another: we ideally need them to be available as open data, freely shareable and re-usable, which is a very different kettle of ballpark. And then, of course, we need this data to be used, which means we need to think about building tools that make it useful. Finally, we can't just whine about the world not being as we would wish it to be, or write academic papers describing the problem: we need a practical theory of change, and a set of clear strategies that will deliver greater transparency.Â Â This is my talk atÂ the International Journal of Epidemiology Conference, 2016. It takes 29 minutes of your life, at speed:Â I hope you find it useful.

Today marks the end of an era. The International Journal of Epidemiology used to be aÂ typicalÂ hotchpotchÂ of isolated papers on worthy subjects. Occasionally, some were interesting, or related to your field. Under Shah Ebrahim and George Davey-Smith it became like nothing else: an epidemiology journal you'd happily subscribe to with your own money, and read in the bath. Read the rest of this entry "

The Conversation is a great media outlet, because it'sÂ run by academic nerds, but made for everyone. I had a nice time chatting with them last week: we discussed transparency, data sharing, statins, research integrity, risk communication, culture shift, academic activism, and why we should kick throughÂ the walls of theÂ ivory tower. Caution: contains nerds!
theconversation.com/speaking-with-bad-pharma-author-ben-goldacre-about-how-bad-research-hurts-us-all-65800
The Duchenne's treatment made by SareptaÂ (eteplirsen) has been in the news this week, as a troubling example of the FDA lowering itsÂ barÂ for approval of new medicines. The FDA expert advisory panelÂ decided not to approveÂ this treatment, becauseÂ the evidence for any benefit isÂ weak; but there was extensive lobbyingÂ from well-organised patientsÂ and, eventually, theÂ FDA overturned the opinion of itsÂ own panel. There have been calls for paper retractions, and so on.

This is not the first time we've seen peculiar activity around theÂ treatment. Read the rest of this entry "

There are recurring howlsÂ in my work. One of them is this: in general,Â ifÂ you don't know which intervention works best, then you shouldÂ randomise everyone, everywhere. This is for good reason: uncertainty costs lives, throughÂ sub-optimal treatment. Wherever randomised trials areÂ the right approach, you should embedÂ themÂ in routine clinical care.

This is an argument I've made, with colleagues, in endless different places.Â New diabetes drugs are approved with woeful data,Â small numbers of patients in trials that only measure blood tests, rather than real-world outcomes such as heart attack, renal failure, or death: so let's roll out new diabetes treatments in the NHS through randomised trials.Â We rely on observational studies to establish whether Tamiflu reduces complications of pneumonia: that's silly, we can do trials, and we should.Â Statin treatment regimes in widespread use have never been compared head-to-head, using real-world outcomes such as heart attack, stroke, and death: so let's embed randomised trials as cheaply as possible in routine clinical care (we've done two pilots, to document the barriers).

This week a dozenÂ colleagues and I published yet another application of this basic, simple principle, as an editorial in the BMJ. The Cancer Drugs Fund is being marketed as a way to generate new knowledge:Â but in reality, the data that will be collected is weak, Read the rest of this entry "

Here's a useful paper we've just published in the BMJ, documenting problems in transparency around approval processes for randomised trials.Â There's a basic rule in clinical research: you're only supposed to do a trial comparing two treatments when you really don't know which one is best, otherwise you'd be knowingly randomising half your participants to an inferior treatment. Despite this, it's already known Â that trials are sometimes conducted where one group get a substandard treatment.

We wanted to find out how ethics committees come to approve such trials. Read the rest of this entry "

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Sorry not to be in regular blogging mode at the moment. Here's a video of our evidence session to parliament, where they are running an inquiry into research integrity. I think clinical trials are the best possible way to approach this issue.

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beware of students using "complex word generators" or "text inflators" such as this as they are easily googled and accessible  http://www.csgenerator.com/

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Is math discovered or invented? - Jeff Dekofsky

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A History of Ideas: Animated Videos Explain Theories of Simone de Beauvoir, Edmund Burke & Other Philosophers

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The UK's Open University has become a dependable source of very short, online video introductions to all sorts of things, from weighty subjects like religion, economics, and literary theory to lighter, but no less interesting fare like the art and science of bike design. With breezy tone and serious intent, their animated " 60-Second Adventures" make seemingly arcane academic ideas accessible to laypeople with no prior background. Now they've teamed up with writer and BBC broadcaster Melvyn Bragg of fame for a series of video shorts that run just a little over 60 seconds each, with animations by Andrew Park of Cogni+ive, and narration by comedic actor Harry Shearer from Spinal Tap, The Simpsons, and, most recently, Nixon's the One.

Drawn from Bragg's BBC 4 radio program "A History of Ideas," the shorts introduce exactly that-each one a précis of a longstanding philosophical problem like Free Will vs. Determinism (top) or the Problem of Evil (above). Unlike some similarly rapid outlines, these videos-like the tie-in Bragg radio program-don't simply sketch out the issues in abstract; they draw from specific approaches from fields as diverse as neuroscience, moral philosophy, theology, and feminist theory. In the video on free will at the top, for example, Shearer introduces us to the Libet experiments, performed in the 1980s by neurologist Benjamin Libet to test our ability to make voluntary, conscious decisions. The "Free Will Defense" video above references-at least visually- Bertrand Russell's notorious teapot in its rather skeptical presentation of this theological bugbear.

Some of the videos get even more specific, focusing in on the work of one thinker whose contributions are central to our understanding of certain concepts. Just above in "Feminine Beauty," we have an introduction to existential philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's argument that feminine beauty, and gender presentation more generally, is socially constructed by prevailing patriarchal norms-a concept central to the feminist work of later thinkers like Judith Butler. And below, we have the 18th century concept of the "Sublime," a supposedly higher, more threatening and ineffable aesthetic mode, as discussed in the work of conservative political philosopher Edmund Burke (also a subject dear to Immanuel Kant, who had his own take on the idea).

See more "A History of Ideas" short, animated videos-including " Diotima's Ladder," " The Golden Ratio," and " The Harm Principle"-on Youtube or the BBC Radio 4 site. The scripts for the clips, we should add, were written by Nigel Warburton, whose Philosophy Bites podcast you should never miss.

And for much more extensive discussions of these age-old philosophical questions with real living "philosophers, theologians, lawyers, neuroscientists, historians and mathematicians," download episodes of Melvyn Bragg's "A History of Ideas" show here or on iTunes.
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A History of Ideas: Animated Videos Explain Theories of Simone de Beauvoir, Edmund Burke & Other Philosophers

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http://sohowdoweknow.weebly.com/the-arts.html

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Available in multiple languages

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[Aristotle] Aristotle, On Sophistical Refutations, translated by W. A. Pickard, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/sophist_refut.html

[Avicenna] Avicenna, Treatise on Logic, translated by Farhang Zabeeh, 1971.

[Carroll] Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 2008,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-h/11-h.htm

[Curtis] Gary N. Curtis, Fallacy Files, http://fallacyfiles.org

[Damer] T. Edward Damer, Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments (6th ed), 2005.

[Engel] S. Morris Engel, With Good Reason: An Introduction to Informal Fallacies, 1999.

[Farmelo] Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, 2011.

[Fieser] James Fieser, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu

[Firestein] Stuart Firestein, Ignorance: How it Drives Science, 2012.

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This book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning, particularly those who, to borrow a phrase from Pascal, are so made that they understand best through visuals. I have selected a small set of common errors in reasoning and visualized them using memorable illustrations that are supplemented with lots of examples.

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Ethics and The Arts

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As the Turner Prize turns 30 years old, we look at the formula for controversy and what the work we hate says about our society.

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Human Sciences

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usiness as usual. That will be the implicit message when the Sveriges Riksbank announces this year's winner of the "Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel", to give it its full title. Seven years ago this autumn, practically the entire mainstream economics profession was caught off guard by the global financial crash and the "worst panic since the 1930s" that followed. And yet on Monday the glorification of economics as a scientific field on a par with physics, chemistry and medicine will continue.

The problem is not so much that there is a Nobel prize in economics, but that there are no equivalent prizes in psychology, sociology, anthropology. Economics, this seems to say, is not a social science but an exact one, like physics or chemistry - a distinction that not only encourages hubris among economists but also changes the way we think about the economy.

A Nobel prize in economics implies that the human world operates much like the physical world: that it can be described and understood in neutral terms, and that it lends itself to modelling, like chemical reactions or the movement of the stars. It creates the impression that economists are not in the business of constructing inherently imperfect theories, but of discovering timeless truths.

To illustrate just how dangerous that kind of belief can be, one only need to consider the fate of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund set up by, among others, the economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton in 1994. With their work on derivatives, Scholes and Merton seemed to have hit on a formula that yielded a safe but lucrative trading strategy. In 1997 they were awarded the Nobel prize. A year later, Long-Term Capital Management lost $4.6bn (£3bn)in less than four months; a bailout was required to avert the threat to the global financial system. Markets, it seemed, didn't always behave like scientific models.

In the decade that followed, the same over-confidence in the power and wisdom of financial models bred a disastrous culture of complacency, ending in the 2008 crash. Why should bankers ask themselves if a lucrative new complex financial product is safe when the models tell them it is? Why give regulators real power when models can do their work for them?

Many economists seem to have come to think of their field in scientific terms: a body of incrementally growing objective knowledge. Over the past decades mainstream economics in universities has become increasingly mathematical, focusing on complex statistical analyses and modelling to the detriment of the observation of reality.

Consider this throwaway line from the former top regulator and London School of Economics director Howard Davies in his 2010 book The Financial Crisis: Who Is to Blame?: "There is a lack of real-life research on trading floors themselves." To which one might say: well, yes, so how about doing something about that? After all, Davies was at the time heading what is probably the most prestigious institution for economics research in Europe, located a stone's throw away from the banks that blew up.

Howard Davies, pictured in 2006. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian

All those banks have "structured products approval committees", where a team of banking staff sits down to decide whether their bank should adopt a particular new complex financial product. If economics were a social science like sociology or anthropology, practitioners would set about interviewing those committee members, scrutinising the meetings' minutes and trying to observe as many meetings as possible. That is how the kind of fieldwork-based, "qualitative" social sciences, which economists like to discard as "soft" and unscientific, operate. It is true that this approach, too, comes with serious methodological caveats, such as verifiability, selection bias or observer bias. The difference is that other social sciences are open about these limitations, arguing that, while human knowledge about humans is fundamentally different from human knowledge about the natural world, those imperfect observations are extremely important to make.

Compare that humility to that of former central banker Alan Greenspan, one of the architects of the deregulation of finance, and a great believer in models. After the crash hit, Greenspan appeared before a congressional committee in the US to explain himself. "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms," said the man whom fellow economists used to celebrate as "the maestro".

In other words, Greenspan had been unable to imagine that bankers would run their own bank into the ground. Had the maestro read the tiny pile of books by financial anthropologists he may have found it easier to imagine such behaviour. Then he would have known that over past decades banks had adopted a "zero job security" hire-and-fire culture, breeding a "zero-loyalty" mentality that can be summarised as: "If you can be out of the door in five minutes, your horizon becomes five minutes."

While this was apparently new to Greenspan it was not to anthropologist Karen Ho, who did years of fieldwork at a Wall Street bank. Her book Liquidated emphasises the pivotal role of zero job security at Wall Street (the same system governs the City of London). The financial sociologist Vincent Lépinay's Codes of Finance, a book about the division in a French bank for complex financial products, describes in convincing detail how institutional memory suffers when people switch jobs frequently and at short notice.

Perhaps the most pernicious effect of the status of economics in public life has been the hegemony of technocratic thinking. Political questions about how to run society have come to be framed as technical issues, fatally diminishing politics as the arena where society debates means and ends. Take a crucial concept such as gross domestic product. As Ha-Joon Chang makes clear in 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, the choices about what not to include in GDP (household work, to name one) are highly ideological. The same applies to inflation, since there is nothing neutral about the decision not to give greater weight to the explosion in housing and stock market prices when calculating inflation.

Ha-Joon Chang, pictured at the Hay-on-Wye festival, Wales. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images

GDP, inflation and even growth figures are not objective temperature measurements of the economy, no matter how many economists, commentators and politicians like to pretend they are. Much of economics is politics disguised as technocracy - acknowledging this might help open up the space for political debate and change that has been so lacking in the past seven years.

Would it not be extremely useful to take economics down one peg by overhauling the prize to include all social sciences? The Nobel prize for economics is not even a "real" Nobel prize anyway, having only been set up by the Swedish central bank in 1969. In recent years, it may have been awarded to more non-conventional practitioners such as the psychologist Daniel Kahneman. However, Kahneman was still rewarded for his contribution to the science of economics, still putting that field centre stage.

Think of how frequently the Nobel prize for literature elevates little-known writers or poets to the global stage, or how the peace prize stirs up a vital global conversation: Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel introduced Arab literature to a mass audience, while last year's prize for Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai put the right of all children to an education on the agenda. Nobel prizes in economics, meanwhile, go to "contributions to methods of analysing economic time series with time-varying volatility" (2003) or the "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" (2008).

A revamped social science Nobel prize could play a similar role, feeding the global conversation with new discoveries and insights from across the social sciences, while always emphasising the need for humility in treating knowledge by humans about humans. One good candidate would be the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, whose writing on the "liquid modernity" of post-utopian capitalism deserves the largest audience possible. Richard Sennett and his work on the "corrosion of character" among workers in today's economies would be another. Will economists volunteer to share their prestigious prize out of their own acccord? Their own mainstream economic assumptions about human selfishness suggest they will not.

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"Inside Out": A Crash Course In PhD Philosophy That Kids Will Get First

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When you go to see a Pixar film you know you're going to see something clever, funny and inventive. What you don't expect, however, is to see a remarkably intelligent treatment of one of the most complicated and confusing philosophical issues of them all: the self.

I've written a PhD thesis on this and later a book, and whenever I talk about it, I go on about how the most credible and widely accepted theory (among philosophers, at least) is counter-intuitive and hard to grasp. Then some cartoon comes along which makes the key points intelligible to children. Inside Out has turned my world upside down.

The film takes us inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl, Riley, where five homunculi - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust - are literally pushing all her buttons. Most critics have focused on how this neat device teaches difficult lessons in emotional maturity, most notably how you can't be happy all the time and that sadness has its role to play too.

That's true. But, albeit in schematic and simplified form, the film also reflects some of the most important truths about what it means to be an individual person.

The first of these is that there isn't actually a single, unified you at all. Your brain is not a little world full of anthropomorphic creatures, of course. But it is made up of various different, often competing impulses. You are simply how it all comes together, the sum of your psychic parts.

This, however, is just the first crack at the myth of the enduring, unified self. What the film also shows is that each of these parts is impermanent. Riley's personality is represented by a series of islands that reflect what matters most to her: friendship, honesty, family, goofiness and hockey. But as life becomes difficult, each of these in turns threatens to crumble. And that is how it is in the real world: as we grow and change and life takes it toll, some of the things that matter most to us will endure, others will fall away and new ones will come in their place.

The third key element in understanding the self is that what keeps this all together is memory. At first, it seems like the film is going to over-simplify this, presenting memories as little movies, experiences that are captured, stored and played back. But as it progresses it gets more complicated. It becomes clear that not only do many memories simply get lost - even ones that were once most precious - others change their character as we do. For memories to do their work, they need to be nurtured and understood.

What it all adds up to is a picture of the self as something which coheres into a single narrative but which has nothing permanent and unchanging at its core. We are forever in flux, always in the process of growing out of what we once were into what we are to become next.

I think the reason this can be conveyed in a children's film is that, in many ways kids are more receptive to this message than adults. Children change so rapidly that they might be able to understand the idea of impermanence more readily than adults, whose self-conception has often ossified. Kids have no problem imagining that they might grow up to be quite different, while adults assume they are stuck being the person they have turned out to be.

The best children's films often serve a dual purpose. They help kids to grow up but they also remind adults of what they have lost by doing so. Inside Out succeeds brilliantly on both counts.
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Inside Out: a crash course in PhD philosophy of self that kids will get first

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LOWKEY FT. MAI KHALIL- AHMED (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Joshua Bell and the Washington Post Subway experiment (Sense Perception)

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Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment | The Washington Post

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BBC Science Documentary

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Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better

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There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared Diamond looks at how many different societies treat their elders -- some better, some worse -- and suggests we all take advantage of mature experience.

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"Two titans of the religious spectrum famed Atheist Christopher Hitchens and esteemed Catholic apologetic Dinesh D'Souza clash in public debate at the University of Notre Dame. Sponsored in part by The College of Arts and Letters: The Henkels Lecturer Series, The Center for Philosophy of Religion and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts."

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Real History of Earth Suppressed Story of Reptilians

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"Fashion Victims" es una acción urbana inspirada en los recientes acontecimientos en Bangladesh (el derrumbe el 24 de abril de varios talleres textiles que acabaron con la vida de 1.127 trabajadores) que pretende dar visibilidad a los verdaderos "fashion victims": los trabajadores esclavizados, la explotación infantil y los millones de perjudicados por la contaminación que producen las fábricas en los países de producción.

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Sense Perception

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DANCING BEAR, MOONWALKING BEAR, CYCLIST AWARE

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DANCING BEAR, MOONWALKING BEAR, CYCLIST AWARE, COUNT THE PASSES.

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Six Famous Thought Experiments Explained Quickly

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Six Famous Thought Experiments Explained Quickly

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Six Famous Thought Experiments Explained Quickly

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Jimmy Wales (TED.com)

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The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

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The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

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Jonathan Haidt (TED.com)

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"The Map Is Not The Territory"

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Mathematics and Reason

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Natural Sciences and Reason

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C2TOK_RGWSHK_2._How to Write A TOK Essay

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Conservative Points of View

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Essays that provoke TOK discussions

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The latest and most popular Essays from Aeon. Longform articles on philosophy, psychology, science, society, history and the arts, written by the world's leading thinkers.

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