Archive for the ‘Reflection’ Category
The Human Sciences in TOK
This is an outline of a presentation that I recently gave to a group of students at the Mahindra United World College of India as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program’s Theory of Knowledge course, which investigates various ‘Areas of Knowledge’ and ‘Ways of Knowing’. The Human (or Social) Sciences provide a great synthesis […]
Downward spiral
When Thomas Friedman wrote last year that the introduction of the Tata Nano “people’s car” was a Bad Thing, many interested parties quickly came to defend the project, claiming that Friedman and others concerned about deploying thousands (perhaps millions) of inexpensive cars into India were being elitist and insensitive to the needs of a developing […]
What is the cognitive lens?
cognition [,käg’ . ni . sh . ən] noun - the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.
Cognition and its underlying principles are powerful tools to use in understanding and interacting with the world, and Cognitive Lens is my attempt to bring related but often isolated fields together through a cognitive perspective.