CT 1: Knowledge and the Knower

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mytok.blog/2020/05/01/ct-1-knowledge-and-the-knower This episode can be used to begin a Theory of Knowledge course or class by having students individually or in groups play a game of Charades. The individual or group picks an object out from within the classroom and describes the object using adjectives while the rest of the class attempts to guess at what the object is that is being described. The key concepts to be worked at and questioned are perception (empiricism), representational thinking, categorical thinking, language and reason as ways of knowing and their connection, as well as "bringing to presence" or truth as "illumination". Going step-by-step through the procedures of how the object has been brought to presence can help establish how perception, experience, language and reason are connected to what we know and why we think we know it.