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1.1 Identity

1.2 The self and the other

1.3 Consciousness

1.4 Personhood

1.5 Human nature

1.6 Freedom

2.1 The nature of art

2.2 The artist and the artistic process

2.3 Aesthetic experience and judgement

3.1 Nature of knowledge

3.2 Problems of knowledge

3.3 Application of knowledge

4.1 Normative ethics

4.2 Meta-ethics

4.3 Applied ethics

5.1 Nature and existence of God

5.2 Religious language

5.3 Religious experience and behaviour

6.1 Nature and methodologies of science

6.2 Science and the self

6.3 Science and society

7.1 The state

7.2 Justice

7.3 Liberty and rights

8.1 Social structures and institutions

8.2 Equality and discrimination

8.3 Gender

9.1 Philosophy and technology

9.2 Philosophy and the environment

9.3 The nature, function, and meaning of methodology of philosophy

10.1 Language, Truth and Logic – Alfred Jules Ayer

10.2 The Analects – Confucius

10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes

10.4 Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon

10.5 On the Genealogy of Morality – Friedrich Nietzsche

10.6 Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach – Martha C. Nussbaum

10.7 The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset

10.8 The Republic, Books IV–IX – Plato

10.9 The Ethics of Authenticity – Charles Taylor

10.10 Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

10.11 The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir

10.12 On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

IB Philosophy 3.3.1 Knowledge and Power Key Definitions

Definition

Banking model of education

Banking model of education: Paulo Freire’s term for a pedagogical approach in which teachers deposit knowledge into passive students, reinforcing existing power structures rather than developing critical thinking.

Definition

Epistemic power

Epistemic power is the capacity to shape, control, or restrict what counts as knowledge, who has access to it, and how it is used within a society.

Definition

Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge, including the distinction between knowledge and opinion, the role of reason and experience, and the conditions under which beliefs count as justified.

Definition

Knowledge dissemination

Knowledge dissemination is the process by which knowledge is communicated, distributed, and made accessible to wider audiences through various media and technologies, from oral tradition and print to digital platforms and artificial intelligence.

IB Philosophy 3.3.1 Knowledge and Power Key Definitions

Definition

Banking model of education

Banking model of education: Paulo Freire’s term for a pedagogical approach in which teachers deposit knowledge into passive students, reinforcing existing power structures rather than developing critical thinking.

Definition

Epistemic power

Epistemic power is the capacity to shape, control, or restrict what counts as knowledge, who has access to it, and how it is used within a society.

Definition

Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge, including the distinction between knowledge and opinion, the role of reason and experience, and the conditions under which beliefs count as justified.

Definition

Knowledge dissemination

Knowledge dissemination is the process by which knowledge is communicated, distributed, and made accessible to wider audiences through various media and technologies, from oral tradition and print to digital platforms and artificial intelligence.