Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See.
- Becoming Parents to Ourselves
- The Myth That Defines Our Age
- Seeking Refuge, Legally, and Finding Prison
- Before I Could Change the World, I Had to Change Myself
- Power Is Everywhere, but Love Is Supreme
- Enough With Crumbs — I Want the Cake
- A Lesson for (and From) a Dystopian World
- Why Fiction Trumps Truth
- What Happens When Our Leaders Lack Moral Courage
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Why Freud Should Be Dead
- Better Memory through Electrical Brain Ripples
- Using Marijuana to Get High Dates Back Millennia
- Are People with ADHD More Creative?
- Free Will Is Real
- Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity
- A New Approach to Addiction Treatment
- The Mindset of Eating Disorders
- "Noncoding" Mutations May Play Unexpected Key Role in Autism
- We Should All Use They/Them Pronouns ... Eventually
- TED talks
- The political power of being a good neighbor | Michael Tubbs
- My life as a work of art | Daniel Lismore
- Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin
- 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings | Priya Parker
- The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity | Karen Lloyd
- The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made | Juna Kollmeier
- The healing power of reading | Michelle Kuo
- The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live | David Brooks
- "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved | Kate Bowler
- Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels
Author Archives: Peter Ellerton
The value of subjective experience (or not)
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Free will and mobile phones
Can you prove you have free will?
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A Critical Thinking Matrix
Exploring the relationship between cognitive skills and the values of inquiry. Grey boxes describe student work. This can be used to generate rubrics. CT Matrix
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The Skills, Values and Virtues of Inquiry
A model for understanding effective thinking through categorising key educational ideas and examining the relationships between them. Skills Values and Virtues of Inquiry
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Science and art from Dilbert
Discuss.
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Why would anyone believe the Earth is flat?
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland Belief in a flat Earth seems a bit like the attempt to eradicate polio – just when you think it’s gone, a pocket of resistance appears. … Continue reading
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Dilbert on Zeno
Zeno does it again.
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We can’t trust common sense but we can trust science
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland When a group of Australians was asked why they believed climate change was not happening, about one in three (36.5%) said it was “common sense”, according to a report published last year by the … Continue reading
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What does it mean to think and could a machine ever do it?
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland The idea of a thinking machine is an amazing one. It would be like humans creating artificial life, only more impressive because we would be creating consciousness. Or would we? How can meat think? … Continue reading
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Teaching how to think is just as important as teaching anything else
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland A new paper on teaching critical thinking skills in science has pointed out, yet again, the value of giving students experiences that go beyond simple recall or learned procedures. It is a common lamentation … Continue reading
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Some useful tips on how to raise an argumentative child
Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland The old adage that children should be seen and not heard is nothing but wishful thinking. Children are naturally inquisitive and they usually can’t help verbalising their curiosity. Asking “why?” is the most natural … Continue reading
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Working together for critical thinking in schools
Working together for critical thinking in schools Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland One of the most desirable characteristics of school graduates is that they can think critically. This helps them individually and also helps the societies in which they … Continue reading
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How to teach all students to think critically
How to teach all students to think critically Peter Ellerton, The University of Queensland All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them … Continue reading
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Do we live in a simulation?
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Digital Piracy
Is this a good analogy?
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Privacy vs Security
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A causal nightmare
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If it’s not right to rape a rapist, how can it be OK to kill a killer?
Discuss (1) this analogy and the (2) image below. (1) Here is the source article for the analogy. “That’s the thing. The reason why we would be hesitant to endorse it is that – what normal person would be paid to do something so … Continue reading
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
Form the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy “The Principle of Sufficient Reason is a powerful and controversial philosophical principle stipulating that everything must have a reason or cause. This simple demand for thoroughgoing intelligibility yields some of the boldest and most … Continue reading
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The Anchoring Effect
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