Tuesday, 10 September 2013

List of recommended TOK reads

I am starting here a list of resources that I recommend consulting to open your mind to TOK:


  • How are we to live? Ethics in an age of self-interest, by Peter Singer
  • Fahrenheit 451*, by Ray Bradbury
  • Guns, germs and steel: the fates of human societies*, by Jared Diamond
  • 1984*, by George Orwell
  • Making Sense: Philosophy Behind the Headlines*, by Julian Baggini
  • Moral Minds: How Nature Designed a Universal Sense of Right and Wrong, by Mark Hauser
  • Nausea*, by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • On language, by Noam Chomsky
  • The language instinct: how the mind creates language, by Steven Pinker
  • The God Disillusion, by Richard Dawkins
  • What’s It All about? Philosophy and the meaning of life, by Julian Baggini
  • Writings on an ethical life, by Peter Singer
  • Would you eat your cat?: Key ethical conundrums and what they tell you about yourself, by Jeremy Stangroom
  • Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: an inquiry into values, by Robert M. Pirsig
* Available at the school library

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