Key TOK thinkers
The arguments in your essay and exhibition should be supported not only by your own ideas and evidence, but also by those of other people.
But we’re thinking of more than just the assessment: these minds are the source of some of the most incredible ideas ever created, so they’re worth getting to know in their own right because they are genuinely life-changing.
Thinkers on knowledge & the knower
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Dan Ariely to Ludwig Wittgenstein to help you consolidate your understanding of knowledge & the knower here.
Thinkers on indigenous societies
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Rebecca Adamson to Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri to help you consolidate your understanding of knowledge & indigenous societies here.
Thinkers on language
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Benjamin Whorf to help you consolidate your understanding of knowledge & language here.
Thinkers on politics
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Chinua Achebe to Jean Jacques Rousseau to help you consolidate your understanding of knowledge & politics here.
Thinkers on religion
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Richard Dawkins to Simone Weil to help you consolidate your understanding of knowledge & religion here.
Thinkers on technology
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from David Eagleman to Nikola Tesla to help you consolidate your understanding of knowledge & technology here.
Thinkers on the arts
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Ai Weiwei to Virginia Woolf to help you consolidate your understanding of the arts here.
Thinkers on history
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from EH Carr to Huge Trevor-Roper to help you consolidate your understanding of history here.
Thinkers on human sciences
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Aristotle to Philip Zimbardo to help you consolidate your understanding of the human sciences here.
Thinkers on mathematics
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Rene Descartes to Cathy O’Neil to help you consolidate your understanding of mathematics here.
Thinkers on natural sciences
Meet and get to know a range of brilliant thinkers from Jim Al-Khalili to Michelle Thaller to help you consolidate your understanding of the natural sciences here.
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