Personal & Shared Knowledge
This type of knowledge comes from individual experience and perspective.
What is Personal Knowledge?
The cultural background of a knower often shapes this in their understanding.
Questions about knowledge itself (rather than subject content) are called this.
What is knowledge questions?
Knowers have this responsibility when sharing knowledge with others.
What is responsibility?
This type of knowledge is collectively built, organized, and communicated within communities.
What is shared knowledge?
This type of error occurs when a knower lets prior beliefs distort how they interpret new knowledge.
What is Bias?
A knowledge question about whether personal knowledge can be objective is this type of question.
What is second-order questions?
The ethical implications of using AI to generate knowledge highlight this aspect of the knower’s role.
What is ethics?
The interplay between these two forms of knowledge helps us understand how personal experiences influence larger frameworks of knowledge.
What is interaction?
Confirmation bias is an example of how this influences the knower’s construction of knowledge.
What is Beliefs?
This key feature of knowledge questions makes them open to debate rather than definitive answers.
What is open-ended questions?
When a knower chooses not to share knowledge that could prevent harm, this ethical concept is at stake.
What is duty?
A community of scientists working on climate change is an example of this type of knowledge.
What is shared knowledge?
This perspective-taking skill allows knowers to recognize and challenge their own assumptions.
What is reflection?
“To what extent does language shape how we know?” is an example of this kind of question.
What is a TOK Question?
The idea that knowers must critically evaluate sources before sharing information links knowledge with this moral responsibility.
What is Integrity?
This type of knowledge may be tacit, embodied, or difficult to articulate, yet still valuable.
What is Tacit Knowledge?
The idea that all knowledge is filtered through the position of the knower is often called this philosophical view.
What is relativism?
Questions that explore the limits of what we know fall under this TOK category of inquiry.
What is limits?
The responsibility of knowers toward truth versus utility reflects this tension in knowledge sharing.
What is tension?