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Theory of Knowledge Diagram. Mathematics. Ways of Knowing. Natural Sciences. Sense Perception. Ethics. Reason. Knower(s). Emotion. Areas of Knowledge. Human Sciences. Language. Arts. History. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘Emotion’ ?. TaK - Emotion. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Knower(s)
Natural Sciences
Language
SensePerception
Emotion
Reason
Mathematics
Human Sciences
History
Arts
Ethics
Areas of Knowledge
Theory of Knowledge Diagram
Ways of Knowing
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What do you think of when you hear the word
‘Emotion’?
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Do you think that Emotion is often looked atwith suspicion?
If so, why?
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Emotion (noun)• A mental state that arises
spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes;
• a feeling • “movere” Latin – to move
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How are you feeling now, at this moment?
How do you know?Why do you think you are feeling
this way?
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What are emotions for?
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What role does emotion play in producing knowledge?
Knowledge:1. Knowing that (theoretical) ….2. Knowing how (practical) ….3. Knowing someone (familiarity) ….4. Knowing what is right (moral) ….
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To what extent are we able to control our emotions?
Which emotion is the hardest to control?
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You are walking down a dark alley ... there are footsteps behind you …
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Emotion Reason
Opposition?
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Reason and Emotion Walt Disney animation from 1943http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JStrcfHr8AY
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Emotion Reason
Opposition?
Charioteer:Reason
Horses:Boldness & Desire
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New York Times columnist David Brooks – author of ‘The Social Animal’ on the relationship between Emotion
and Reasonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7MRleoVFRU
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An enemy of reason?or
An important precondition for knowledge?
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"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of
the passions"David Hume (1711-1776)
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“Nothing great is accomplished in the
world without passion”Hegel (1770-1831)
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Without emotion …
We would feel neither approval nor disapproval; attraction or repulsion; like or dislike…
Everything would be of equal valueNo part of the world would be more important than any another…
There could be no interest in any human relationship, in any work, in any play…
With no emotions, can there be goals?
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TaK - EmotionEmotion Reason
Balance?
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Emotion Reason
Balance?
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Emotion and Reason
Furious Gettingannoyed
Solving amaths problem
ReasonEmotion
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Not ‘either – or’,but ‘more - or – less’
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Why are we attracted to some human faces but not to others?
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• How does she feel?• How do you know?• The title is ‘Absinthe’• Does that affect
your interpretation of the picture?
Knowing emotion through perception
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Happiness
Sadness
Fear
Anger
Surprise
Disgust
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Primary or Universal Emotions
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Secondary or Social Emotions (Socially conditioned)
Embarrassment
Jealousy
Guilt
Pride
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Secondary or Social Emotions (Socially conditioned)
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Background Emotions (frequently not conscious)
• Well-being / Malaise
• Calm / Tension
• Fatigue / Energy
• Anticipation / Dread
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Rationalisations
1.Experiences 2. Powerful Emotions
3. Biased
Perception
4. Fallacious Reasoning
5. Emotive
Language
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1. Bill sees some people he assumes are immigrants standing on the street corner…
2. He feels irritated and angry …
3. He notices only lazy immigrants and overlooks hard-working ones …
4. He makes hasty generalisations from his own experience…
5. He concludes that immigrants ‘are idle’ and ‘don’t know the meaning of hard work!’ …
The above factors reinforce the original prejudice and make it difficult for Bill to be objective.
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How do we decide what to notice and therefore what to value?
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What role does Emotion play in shaping knowledge?
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Emotions as a source of knowledge
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to choose between two
equally attractive options?
How did you come to a decision?
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What role do you think is usually played by emotion when
people decide which universities to apply to?
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Paul has arranged to meet Tom at 3pm. Tom arrives at 3.02pm and apologises
for being late.
Rather than accept the apology, Paul starts screaming and shouting about Tom’s lack of consideration and
completely loses his self-control.
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The hospital phones Jane with terrible news. Her husband has been assaulted and is lying unconscious in Intensive Care.
“Oh dear”, she says, “that is annoying! I was hoping to play tennis this afternoon, but I suppose I had better come and visit him.”
Showing too little emotion is, perhaps, as irrational as showing too much
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“Anyone can be angry – that is easy.But to be angry with the right person
to the right degree,at the right time,
for the right purposeand in the right way – that is not easy.”
Aristotle
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What does he mean?
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IntuitionTaK - Emotion
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IntuitionTaK - Emotion
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Intuition• Core intuitions - our most fundamental
intuitions about life the universe and everything.
All human beings are created equal My friends are not aliens Murder is wrong Life is not a dream The laws of Physics will not break
down tomorrow
Things we consider to be ‘obvious’
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Intuition
We sometimes appeal to intuition to justify our knowledge claims in various areas of knowledge about which we perhaps know little, but
research suggests that such ‘uneducated’ intuitions should be
treated with caution….
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Intuition‘Uneducated intuitions’ should be
treated with caution….
Imagine you are standing on a flat plain holding a bullet in one hand, and a loaded
gun in the other.
If you fire the gun horizontally, and drop the bullet at exactly the same time which of the
two bullets will hit the ground first?
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Intuition
• Educated Intuition ‘Eureka!’ moments
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Intuition
• Subject-specific intuitions – the intuitions we have in various areas of knowledge such as science and ethics
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Intuition• Social intuitions – our intuitions about other
people, what they are like, whether or not they can be trusted etc
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Web site about intuition: http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=19
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Imagine that you are presented with a special gift: a machine - the “Happiness Machine” – that can give
you wonderfully positive emotions.
All you have to do is hook yourself up ... and switch it on.
But there’s a price: once the machine is switched on, you will not remember anything that happened before
switching on the machine. Ever again.
Do you want to switch the machine on?Why?
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TaK - EmotionSome key points:
• The emotions are relevant to the search for knowledge because they provide us with energy, affect our thinking and are sometimes used to justify our beliefs
• The six primary emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust are found in all cultures
• Emotions are sometimes an obstacle to knowledge. Strong emotions can color our perception, distort our thinking and inflame our language
• Rather than think of reason and emotion as opposites, it may make more sense to say that our emotions can themselves be more or less rational
• Intuition is an immediate insight into something – sometimes valuable, sometimes to be treated with caution.
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Questions…• How might it be said that all decisions and therefore
actions are based on emotion? Why is it we rely on these feelings as a higher form of certainty than raw, objective empirical data?
• What are the flaws in relying solely on emotion as a way of knowing?
• Despite these flaws, how do we integrate emotion to create justified true belief?
• In what areas of knowledge is emotion important?
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Emotion
LanguageIs language used more to persuade
or describe?
ReasonAre we driven
more by reason or emotion?
EthicsIs ethics more a
matter of the heart than the
head?
ArtsDo the arts
provoke emotions or purge them?
HistoryWhat role does empathy play in the historian’s
work?
Human Sciences
How much of a problem is bias in
the social sciences?
MathsHow important is
intuition in mathematics?
Natural Sciences
What does biology tell us
about the emotions?
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ToK Essay Prescribed Title 2008:
“There can be no knowledge without emotion .... until we have felt the force
of the knowledge, it is not ours”
Discuss this vision of the relationship between knowledge and emotion.
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What role does Emotion play in your IB subjects?
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Extras
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Extras
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure.html
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“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as
dead, a sniffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly:
this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only,
I am a devoutly religious man”Albert Einstein
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An Emotion Wheel designed by Robert Plutchik in 1980.
Eight basic emotions with their opposites.
Combinations: Optimism is composed of Anticipation and Joy. It’s opposite is Disapproval.etc
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JoySadnessAnxiousEnvyGratitudeConfidentAweReliefWonderEnergeticDisgustStupidAshamedHungry
HappyHelplessHopefulLuckyContentGuiltySleepyBoredTiredIrritatedRelaxedSurprisedAmusedProudNervous
Instinctive
Social
InwardLooking
OutwardLooking
Inward looking: such as ‘fear’ where we are ‘drawn into ourselves’Outward looking: such as ‘wonder’ where we are ‘drawn out of ourselves’Instinctive: such as anger, loveSocial: such as guilt, shame
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“Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do”
Bible
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Why do we want to touch some sculptures and stand away from others?
Henry Moore Giacometti