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Where science meets art. The only necessary and sufficient book store in Melbourne.
Hope our friends enjoy the new look and feel – now optimised for mobile devices for access on the go.

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Coordinator: Peter Ellerton
Web guy: Jason Etheridge RESOURCE COLLECTIONS
THEMED RESOURCES
NEW RESOURCES
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- Science and Conspiracy
- The Limits of Imagination
- What use Philosophy?
- Truth Puzzles booklet
- Can We Choose To Believe Something?
- Honesty and Charity in Arguments
- A Useful Introduction to Critical Thinking Skills
- Analogy
- Whose brain is it? Consciousness, free will and the brain.
- The Tale of the Slave
- 10 Philosophical Principles
- The Fallacy of Deepest Offence
- Philosophy Graduate Abilities
- Fallacies Poster
- What Truth Doesn’t Mean
RANDOM POSTS
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- Valid Arguments, Tautologies and Formal Fallacies (deductive logic)
- Putting a brake on tolerance
- Censorship II
- Theory of Knowledge - Sense Perception
- Philosophy Graduate Abilities
- Intelligent Design - the Myth of Irreducible Complexity
- Psychology and Psychics - Why some people think they are psychic.
- Rebuilding before retreating
- Ethical Theory for absolute beginners
- Social Philosophy booklet
USEFUL RSS FEEDS
Philosopher’s Zone
NYTimes – The Stone
Ethics Bites
Talking Philosophy
RSA Animate
Phonline
Scientific American – Mind and Brain
TED talks- TED: Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass? - Sergey Brin (2013)
- TED: Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard! - Jay Silver (2013)
- TED: Liu Bolin: The invisible man - Liu Bolin (2013)
- TED: Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness - Maria Bezaitis (2013)
- TED: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20 - Meg Jay (2013)
Category Archives: Essay
Honesty and Charity in Arguments
From NYTimes - By GARY GUTTING, The Stone Link - As a philosophy professor, I spend much of my time thinking about the arguments put forward by professional philosophers. As a citizen (and an occasional columnist for The Stone), I also spend lots of … Continue reading
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The Fallacy of ‘Deepest Offence’
The Fallacy of ‘Deepest Offence’ By Peter Ellerton image via here Nothing is so central to a liberal society as the right to discuss ideas. Not being able to do this at all is totalitarianism – the banning of discussing, … Continue reading