Nothing more exciting than fresh ideas? 2024 TOK Essay Title 3 by TOK Talk published on 2023-11-01T07:19:45Z May 2024 TOK Essay Title 3 Nothing is more exciting than fresh ideas, so why are areas of knowledge often so slow to adopt them? Discuss with reference to the human sciences and one other area of knowledge. What is the difference between an idea and knowledge? What is slow or fast in terms of ideas? What contexts affect the timeframe? Slow for what? Who? What does it mean to “adopt” an idea? How is that different from acceptance? When does an idea become a theory or law? What makes an idea fresh? What about the possibilities they represent is both exciting and causes disciplines to pause before adopting them? Guests: Brett Fisher and Garrett McKee Sounds from rice fields in Bali Genre Learning
