IB DP Theory of knowledge class: Daniel Kahneman: ‘Everything I’ve done has been collaborative’
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IB DP TOK Links Collaborative, System 1 and system 2, Bias vs. noise
Relevant Big Question Creativity
Key terms and ideas Human sciences, knowledge & the knower
Integration Psychology, group 3 subjects
Investigating Issues Behavioural economics
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Daniel Kahneman: ‘Everything I’ve done has been collaborative’
You could focus on many different topics and issues within this interview with the very influential Kahneman. Perhaps the most useful angle is the way in which he produces new ideas: as he puts it, “Everything I’ve done, actually, has been collaborative.”
Is collaboration the key to creativity?
Can ideas ever be produced in isolation?
Are the human sciences like natural sciences, in that its pioneers ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’?
Michael Dunn, theoryofknowledge.net
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