Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- How to Die (Without Really Trying)
- Faces in a Nursing Home
- We Need a Monument to the Unknown America
- Don’t Fear Dying. Fear Violence.
- Should We Cancel Aristotle?
- Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability?
- 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.
- Philosophy Now
- News: August/September 2020
- How Do We Understand Each Other?
- What Colour Are Numbers?
- Paul Wood’s Cartoon
- Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
- The Battle for the Robot Soul
- Back to the Future
- Virtual Reality as a Catalyst for Thought
- The Singularity of the Human Hive Mind
- RSA Animate
- The Green Corridors Initiative
- Governance governing government
- Why print money when we can print wealth?
- Building a resilient health and care system
- We'll always have Paris?
- Experimentation and equity in global cities
- Technology-enabled deliberative democracy
- Healthier placemaking
- Creating a sovereign wealth fund in Wolverhampton
- Economic recovery and climate action
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought
- What Research in Antarctica Tells Us about the Science of Isolation
- Does 'Brain Training' Actually Work?
- The Masks We Wear to Survive
- We Need to Do More Research on Honesty
- The U.S. Has an Empathy Deficit
- How to Be a Mystical Skeptic
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Changing Our Dreams
- How to Do Better for Your Middle School Student
- Why Pet Pigs Are More like Wolves Than Dogs
- TED talks
- How humanity can reach the stars | Philip Lubin
- Why we must confront hard historical truths | Hasan Kwame Jeffries
- 3 secrets to Netflix's success | Reed Hastings
- The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs | Dannagal G. Young
- If you adults won't save the world, we will | Xiye Bastida
- Secrets of the mind and free will -- revealed by magic tricks | Alice Pailhès
- What role does luck play in your life? | Barry Schwartz
- Why do we blame individuals for economic crises? | Liene Ozoliņa
- You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills | Kiah Williams
- The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne
Category Archives: Media Articles, Cartoons
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?
From SMBC
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Digital Piracy
Is this a good analogy?
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Privacy vs Security
Discuss.
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A causal nightmare
More from Dilbert
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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 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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Are we individual or social creatures?
How does the concept of individuality affect politics? Commentary from The Stone New York Times. Here’s a pdf Evolution and the American Myth of the Individual – NYTimes.com
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The Ethics of Robot Cars
How about robot cars with ethics settings adjusted to suite the driver? Here’s a Terrible Idea: Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings Here’s a PDF
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Free Will and the Genome Project
From Philosophy and Public Affairs – click here for PDF
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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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Another resource for Fallacies of Reasoning
Great resource and very accessible to students.
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