History – involves exploration and looking into the past and how it may affect our perception of new knowledge being acquired.
Draw history (including cubist history)
History is not what happened
Human Sciences – looks at disciplines like psychology, economics, geography, and others. You may focus on if there are fundamental differences between human sciences and natural sciences in the validity of knowledge being produced in each of the disciplines
Urban models
Consilience of Knowledge
Physics envy
Hierarchy of Knowledge
Schema
Big five personality traits
Natural Sciences – looks at biology, physics, and chemistry and how we differentiate ‘scientific’ knowledge from ‘pseudo-scientific’ knowledge. You may also look at scientific discoveries and developments and how they may serve as a paradigm shift.
Is there a scientific method?
Nature: an encounter with a real science journal
Theory of Ignorance
Arts – includes disciplines like dance, music, visual arts, theatre, and film. You may discuss the function of the arts, limitations in what should be considered ‘acceptable’ within the arts, or the relationship between art and culture.
Non-linguistic forms of representation: Shostakovich 8th string quartet
Evoked emotions art gallery
Picasso’s lie and Coleridge's willing suspension of disbelief
Imagination (with constraints) and living in the subjunctive
Rembrandt self portraits
Duchamp's Fountain and Cage's 4'33''
The value of art
Astonishing high art brain imaging
Mathematics – is seen as the area of knowledge with a strong degree of certainty, but is the knowledge that we get from mathematics more accurate or correct than knowledge within, say, the arts? You may also look at if creativity, imagination, or beauty have a role to play within mathematics.
Proof
Ideal gas law compared to Euler’s relation
The special case of mathematical induction
This Statement is False
Platonists and Formalists