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Coordinator: Peter Ellerton
Web guy: Jason Etheridge RESOURCE COLLECTIONS
THEMED RESOURCES
NEW RESOURCES
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- Fallacies Poster
- What Truth Doesn’t Mean
- Can science answer questions about morality?
- The Language of Science
- Analysis of Critical Thinking in Climate Science
- Post hoc ergo propter hoc or False Cause – Correlation does not imply causation
- Philosophy — What’s the Use?
- What Democracy is not…
- The Fallacy of ‘Deepest Offence’
- Another Double Blind Test surprise
- When Should Science be Censored?
- Truth
- Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
- Philosophical Zombies
- The Coherentist’s Nightmare
RANDOM POSTS
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- Handwriting analysis
- Ability to Think Scientifically Declines as Kids Grow Up
- Intelligent Design - the Myth of Irreducible Complexity
- Indian High Court Rules Astrology is a Science
- Dilbert Confirmation Bias
- Neuroscience for kids
- Truth Tables booklet (deductive logic)
- Slippery Slope (Cartoon)
- Developing critical thinking skills
- Science and Truth
USEFUL RSS FEEDS
Philosopher’s Zone
NYTimes – The Stone
Ethics Bites
Talking Philosophy
RSA Animate
Phonline- Alberto Vanzo, "Sull'interpretazione coerentista della concezione kantiana della verità "
- Alberto Vanzo, "Kant, Skepticism, and the Comparison Argument"
- Ralph Wedgwood, "Instrumental Rationality"
- Ralph Wedgwood, "Intrinsic Values and Reasons for Action"
- Ralph Wedgwood, "The "Good" and the "Right" Revisited"
Scientific American – Mind and Brain- Friday Weird Science: whip it good, hold me closer, and other reproductive music messages
- To Enjoy Free Time, Forget Your Hourly Wage
- #SciAmBlogs Thursday - Contagious Yawning, Ancient Bacteria, Electric Grid, Fossil amoebae, and more.
- Unhurtful Thoughts: A Preoccupied Brain Produces Pain-Killing Compounds
- Contagious Yawning: Evidence of Empathy?
TED talks- TED: JR: One year of turning the world inside out - JR (2012)
- TED: Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain - Carl Schoonover (2012)
- TED: David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence - David Kelley (2012)
- TED: Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history - Jean-Baptiste Michel (2012)
- TED: Tali Sharot: The optimism bias - Tali Sharot (2012)
Language and Thought
Can language shape how we think? A Stanford researcher says yes, and her work speaks volumes about what makes people tick. TOK Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind.
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