Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- What if We Could Have Meat Without Murder?
- Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself
- Policing Is Doing What It Was Meant to Do. That’s the Problem.
- White America Wants Me to Conform. I Won’t Do It.
- Carrie Mae Weems: A Crack in the Cultural Armor
- A Cog in the Machine of Creation
- Where Dance and Fashion Collide
- Five Theses on Creativity
- What Does Art Have to Do With the Coronavirus?
- The Robot Artists Aren’t Coming
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Building bridges from the coast
- From tourists to stewards of nature
- Comforting classics in changing times
- Virtual pleasure and peace in lockdown
- Rebuilding our Cultural Assets post-Covid-19
- What does it mean to be human-centred?
- The (Local) Road to Recovery
- Designing the recovery and beyond
- Is it time for 21st century cathedral thinking?
- A Shadow Pandemic: Covid-19’s and Domestic Violence
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Why Do Smells Trigger Memories?
- Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood
- Is Brain Stimulation the Key to Athletic Performance?
- How Nature Helps Body and Soul
- Which of These Four Attachment Styles Is Yours?
- Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don't Fit Their Worldview
- It Shouldn't Be Taboo to Publish Images of Those Killed by Violence
- The Messenger Is the Message
- Do Not Blame Racism on Nature
- A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World
- TED talks
- Scenes from a Black trans life | D-L Stewart
- Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations? | Titus Kaphar
- How the pandemic will shape the near future | Bill Gates
- The courage to live with radical uncertainty | Shekinah Elmore
- What foods did your ancestors love? | Aparna Pallavi
- Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards
- The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine | Jerome Kim
- How we can build sustainable, equitable cities after the pandemic | Vishaan Chakrabarti
- How women will lead us to freedom, justice and peace | H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- The beauty and complexity of finding common ground | Matt Trombley
Category Archives: Philosophy of Science
Ability to Think Scientifically Declines as Kids Grow Up
Young children think like researchers but lose the feel for the scientific method as they age via Scientific American If your brownies came out too crispy on top but undercooked in the center, it would make sense … Continue reading
Anecdotal Evidence cartoon
via smbc
How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
Why subjective anecdotes often trump objective data By Michael Shermer | July 25, 2008 | 27 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-anecdotal-evidence-can-undermine-scientific-results The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.
Happiness, Philosophy and Science
By GARY GUTTING NYTimes ‘The Stone’ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/gary-gutting/ Extract below (useful bit) The new research has both raised hopes and provoked skepticism. Psychologists such as Sonja Lyubomirsky have developed a new genre of self-help books, purporting to replace the intuitions … Continue reading
Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific Explanations
Seeing your life pass before you and the light at the end of the tunnel, can be explained by new research on abnormal functioning of dopamine and oxygen flow By Charles Q. Choi Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=peace-of-mind-near-death Near-death experiences are often thought of … Continue reading
Homeopathic leak threatens catastrophe
What is the role of humour here…? http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/09/homeopathic-leak-threatens-catastrophe/ An accidental release of highly dilute homeopathic waste from a research institute in Swindon has led to calls for the centre to be shut down. Plant operators have admitted responsibility for massive … Continue reading
Post modernism explained?
Obviously simplistic, but ripe for comment!
What’s logic got to do with it? – Some of the greatest flashes of scientific inspiration were sparked by utterly illogical thinking.
POPULAR belief has it that science is the preserve of logical Mr Spocks. A great scientific discovery must surely spring from a series of logical steps, each taken coolly and calmly, in the rational order. But take some time to … Continue reading
Top Ten Evolution Myths – and how we know it really happened (pdf)
Often misunderstandings about evolution are really misunderstandings about how science operates. This document deals with both rather nicely. Philosophy of Science. From the Skeptics Society. Top Ten Evolution Myths (pdf)
Richard Feynman on the nature of science
A beautiful analogy between science and chess.
Consciousness – science tackles the self (pdf)
We know that we are aware of ourselves. But we don’t know how. And we are not even sure why. The answers may lie in the physical processes of consciousness 01 April 1989 by SUSAN BLACKMORE New Scientists Magazine issue … Continue reading
Philosophy in Senior Schools
(From my appearance on ABC Radio National’s ‘Philosopher’s Zone) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2007/1911312.htm Philosophy is about asking childlike questions – how do we know the world exists? How do we know it hasn’t just started existing? Why can’t we go back in time? … Continue reading
Some important tools of critical thinking
(from my Ockham’s Razor appearance on the ABC’s Radio National) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2010/2975629.htm Robyn Williams: And now, the bad news. No, don’t run off – this is interesting – even Quite Interesting, as Stephen Fry might say. Here I’ll quote directly from a … Continue reading
Meat without slaughter: ‘6 months’ to bio-sausages – science-in-society – 31 August 2011 – New Scientist
Meat without slaughter: ‘6 months’ to bio-sausages – science-in-society – 31 August 2011 – New Scientist.
Teaching the Nature of Science
Three Critical Questions By Randy L. Bell, Ph.D. Teaching the Nature of Science
Numbers and Language
Do we need language to understand the basics of numbers? Mind, Science. TOK. Numbers and Language (pdf)
Indian High Court Rules Astrology is a Science
MUMBAI: Astrology has been debunked by most world scientists including India’s renowned physicist Prof. Yash Pal. However, it is “science” in India. Philosophy of religion, philosophy of science,TOK, appeal to tradition, logical fallacies, reasoning. Astrology is a science_ Bombay HC … Continue reading
Theory of Knowledge – Sense Perception
Teaching the Nature of Science.pdf
Evolution comic
One of the best and most easily understood introductions to evolution around. Philosophy of science. Evolution comic (pdf)
