Kuhn's Scientific revolution

Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift

Karl Popper and Justified True Belief

BBC - Malala Yousafzai Pakistan Activist, 14, Shot In Swat By Taliban

GRADE 12 COMMENTS - TOK ISSUES IN "COPENHAGEN"

Students must post here one comment of 80-100 words on the play "Copenhagen". This is a TOK EXERCISE NOT LITERATURE. PLEASE DO NOT REVIEW THE PLAY. FOCUS ON TOK :)

• SUGGESTIONS -
• KNOWLEDGE ISSUES CONCERNING HISTORY AS AN AREA OF KNOWLEDGE- HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW?
• KNOWLEDGE ISSUES - HOW CAN WE KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE WAS THINKING OR THEIR INTENTION?
• What are the ethical limits of knowledge when it concerns weapons of mass destruction? Should we use our knowledge to build chemical weapons, biological weapons and nuclear weapons?
• SCIENCE AS KNOWLEDGE - ETHICAL DUTY? ( Scanners on foetus - checking gender of foetus in advance- infanticide?)
• Amartya Sen - "The Argumentative Indian" -  chapter on nuclear weapons.
• You - as a  TOK STUDENT IN INDIA IN 2012 - WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PLAY AND ITS RELEVANCE IN THE WORLD OF 2012?

'COPENHAGEN' - The background to the Bohr -Heisenberg meeting

 BBC Documentary.



http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/nazi.htm

Absence of A-bomb
Were the Nazis duped–or simply dumb?

BY WARREN P. STROBEL
 

John Locke's theory of knowledge - does knowledge comes through sense perception and human experience?

In his Essay, (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding), Locke explains the gradual unfolding of this conscious mind. Arguing against both the Augustinian view of man as originally sinful and the Cartesian position, which holds that man innately knows basic logical propositions, Locke posits an "empty" mind, a tabula rasa, which is shaped by experience; sensations and reflections being the two sources of all our ideas.           (Wikipedia)
                                                                                                                                                          Locke's central premise in his epistemology is that all knowledge is grounded in experience. He also argues that we are born without innate knowledge, and that the mind is a blank slate:

'Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:- How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.'
 (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 1)

This short video introduces and briefly considers Locke's claim.

COPENHAGEN BBC FILM ADAPTATION with Daniel Craig

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3325831859220140461&hl=en

Documentary above and actors performing below.

Copenhagen Fall Out - Niels Bohr & Werner Heisenberg   DANIEL CRAIG.

Inspired by the actual events that have intrigued and baffled historians for more than 50 years, Copenhagen revolves around a 1941 meeting between two brilliant physicists, Niels Bohr of Denmark (Stephen Rea) and Germany's Werner Heisenberg (Daniel Craig); long-time friends whose work together had opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who were now on opposite sides of World War II. Heisenberg made a covert trip to see Bohr and his wife Margrethe (Francesca Annis) in Copenhagen, but the meeting ended in disaster. Copenhagen explores Heisenberg's visit to Denmark and what happened during the pivotal meeting that was to become a defining moment of the nuclear age. 

Play "Copenhagen" Sun 14th October 2012 Theater - Experimental Theatre

          

Why did Werner Heisenberg mysteriously visit Neils Bohr and his wife Margrethe in Copenhagen in 1941? What are the moral implications of nuclear programming? This exciting, evocatively crafted and topical play explores the historic meeting between the two great nuclear physicists, who are on opposing sides in World War II.

 

 

During World War II, there were mounting fears that Hitler was building an atomic bomb. Such a prospect depended on two of the world’s top nuclear scientists: brilliant German physicist Werner Heisenberg, and his Danish mentor, Niels Bohr. In 1941, Heisenberg traveled 200 miles in secret to Copenhagen to meet Bohr.
The meeting put both men in immense risk, and had a cataclysmic effect on their relationship. This film was made with access to their personal correspondence and newly released documents kept secret for half a century.
Copenhagen Fall Out explores Heisenberg’s visit to Denmark and what happened during the pivotal meeting that was to become a defining moment of the nuclear age.

Copenhagen

Sun 14th October 2012

Written by Michael Frayn; Directed by Avaan Patel; Cast: Tom Alter, Veera Abadan and Vivek Tandon

English Play

A Stage Two Theatre Society Production.

Theater - Experimental Theatre

"COPENHAGEN" PLAY by MICHAEL FRAYN - Performance Mumbai Sunday 14th October

Copenhagen play review , English play review - www.MumbaiTheatreGuide.com


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_%28play%29

 

Plot synopsis

The spirits of Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Bohr's wife Margrethe, meet after their deaths to attempt to answer the question which Margrethe poses in the first line of the play, "Why did he [Heisenberg] come to Copenhagen?” They spend the remainder of the two-act drama presenting, debating and rejecting theories that may answer that question.
Heisenberg – "No one understands my trip to Copenhagen. Time and time again I’ve explained it. To Bohr himself, and Margrethe. To interrogators and intelligence officers, to journalists and historians. The more I've explained, the deeper the uncertainty has become. Well, I shall be happy to make one more attempt."
Along the way, Heisenberg and Bohr "draft" several versions of their 1941 exchange, arguing about the ramifications of each potential version of their meeting and the motives behind it. They discuss the idea of nuclear power and its control, the rationale behind building or not building an atomic bomb, the uncertainty of the past and the inevitability of the future as embodiments of themselves acting as particles drifting through the atom that is Copenhagen.



Writer : Michael Frayn

Direction : Avaan Patel Cast : Tom Alter, Veera Abadan, Vivek Tandon

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: Tests and ASSESSMENT FOR GRADE 12 Q1 Reports

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: Tests and ASSESSMENT FOR GRADE 12 Q1 Reports

Myanmar or Burma's President Thein Sein: 'Aung San Suu Kyi could be president'

                                         Good news on our news channels is a rare event and therefore especially welcome. Thein Sein is now working with Aung San Su Kyi to bring democratic change to Burma. The situation was very different a few years ago when the Military Junta (Dictatorship) suppressed all dissent and brutalised its citizens including the murder of monks on the streets.

Gandhi Jayanti

More than one Gandhian narrative calling for a deeper study?

2ND OCTOBER  Gandhi Jayanti:

 Learning Gandhigiri inside the classroom

 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Gandhi-Jayanti-Learning-Gandhigiri-inside-the-classroom/articleshow/16635718.cms

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Here is a second article I found online today, one may not agree with every point but it is well written.

DR. JAVID IQBAL : Gandhism: Post modernistic impact

Gandhism being a recurring political theme, its post modernistic impact is worth a study on Gandhi Jayanti...143rd birth anniversary of one called Mahatma. In Dubai, I was surprised to see a huge Gandhi portrait in the lecture hall for business leaders. I turned to my son—Wajahat engaged in imparting crash training in business ethics and leadership to business executives, asking…how come Gandhi has such a huge presence in your lecture hall. Leadership and holding diverse elements in his fold…a strategy which could pay dividends in corporate world, pat came the reply. But wasn’t Gandhi against huge businesses, a supporter of charka and cottage industry. Yes, that is besides the point, Gandhism is a lesson in leadership strategies, said my son—a Rumi devotee in Sufi mould, finding message of love a fundamental element in weaving the desirable social fabric. Father and son interested in historical narratives, we went into a huddle. From Rumi to Gandhi, the historical distance is considerable, the narratives are different. Message of love and humanistic understanding of diverse narratives could be a common denominator, my son put forth. I wasn’t taken in wholly by his argument.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Oct/2/gandhism-post-modernistic-impact-31.asp