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TOK - Essay: Class of 2024 Essay Topics

Topics

1: Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts but unfairly condemned in history?

2: How can we reconcile the opposing demands for specialization & generalization in the production of knowledge? (Discuss with reference to mathematics & one other Area of Knowledge)

3: Nothing is more exciting than fresh ideas, so why are areas of knowledge so slow to adopt them? (Discuss with reference to the human sciences & one other Area of Knowledge)

4: Do we underestimate the challenges of taking knowledge out of its original context and transferring it to a different context? (Discuss with reference to two Areas of Knowledge)

5: Do we need custodians of knowledge? (Discuss with reference to two Areas of Knowledge)

6: Are we too quick to assume that the most recent evidence is inevitably the strongest? (Discuss with reference to the natural sciences & one other Area of Knowledge)