Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- The Lesson History Teaches Is Tragic
- How We Went From ‘Soup Nazis’ to Real Nazis
- What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?
- Do We Really Understand ‘Fake News’?
- The Beauty of the Ordinary
- Why Are Poor Women Poor?
- Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?
- Don’t Dismiss ‘Safe Spaces’
- Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Sign Petitions
- Dear God, Are You There?
- Philosophy Now
- Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, & the Return of the Far Right by Ronald Beiner
- News: October/November 2019
- Letters
- Schopenhauer’s Flight of the Valkyries
- Shelley Matheis’ Cartoon
- Goading Gladiators
- Michel Serres (1930-2019)
- The Mind of Leonardo da Vinci
- Conceptual Origami
- Philosophical Outlook & Mental Well-Being
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep? It's in Their DNA
- Happier Babies Have an Edge
- Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem?
- Latitude Adjustment: Distance from the Equator Shapes Our Thinking
- Ancient Teeth Reveal Social Stratification Dates Back to Bronze Age Societies
- How Mere Humans Manage to Comprehend the Vastness of the Universe
- Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back to Bigots
- Sleep Deprivation Shuts Down Production of Essential Brain Proteins
- The Fearful Mind
- It's Time for a World without Gender
- TED talks
- A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean | Tina Arrowood
- How family separation at the US-Mexico border affects children's mental health | Luis H. Zayas
- An app that helps incarcerated people stay connected to their families | Marcus Bullock
- How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet | Julie Cordua
- After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up | David Deutsch
- Revelations from a lifetime of dance | Judith Jamison and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully | Shannon Lee
- How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases | Laura Boykin
- A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border | Juan Enriquez
- A radical plan to end plastic waste | Andrew Forrest
Category Archives: Critical Thinking
The Anchoring Effect
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Misunderstanding Statistics
Another Dilbert moment…
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How to teach all students to think critically
By 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 some numerical thinking skills. The new course … Continue reading
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Watch what you think….
What you think is right may actually be wrong – here’s why By Peter Ellerton We like to think that we reach conclusions by reviewing facts, weighing evidence and analysing arguments. But this is not how humans usually operate, particularly … Continue reading
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Hume’s criticism of the design argument
Hume-Dialogues – Jeff Speaks
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Another resource for Fallacies of Reasoning
Great resource and very accessible to students.
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Biased sample? Circular reasoning?
Discuss.
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Science and Conspiracy
A useful resource produced by NASA debunking claims that the moon landings were faked. Debunking moon landing conspiracies
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Can We Choose To Believe Something?
Discuss
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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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A Useful Introduction to Critical Thinking Skills
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Analogy
Another analogy brought to you by Dilbert.
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The Fallacy of Deepest Offence
Are all ideas equal? Not in the classroom By Peter Ellerton, University of Queensland There is a widespread belief amongst teachers that it is part of their duty of care, even a defining aspect of their professionalism, that all views … Continue reading
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Philosophy Graduate Abilities
Data on the performance of Philosophy graduates. Click to enlarge. More info here. Note that the philosophy students perform outstandingly well in verbal and writing skills and are the best of the non-quatitative areas in quantitative reasoning.
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Fallacies Poster
A lovely job from http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ please visit the site for interactive presentation.
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The Language of Science
Listen and learn: the language of science and scepticism Peter Ellerton Making sure what’s intended is what’s heard can be more difficult than it seems. Melvin Gaal (mindsharing.eu) As scientists, one of our responsibilities should be to promote clarity. A lot … Continue reading
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Analysis of Critical Thinking in Climate Science
No one likes to change their mind, not even on climate People put up all kinds of psychological barriers to changing their minds. Thomas Galvez Last night’s ABC documentary I Can Change Your Mind About Climate was about two people — … Continue reading
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc or False Cause – Correlation does not imply causation
Another legend from Dilbert.
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Philosophy — What’s the Use?
Are you looking to see why teaching philosophy is important? Another great article from NYTimes The Stone Almost every article that appears in The Stone provokes some comments from readers challenging the very idea that philosophy has anything relevant to … Continue reading
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