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: Web links
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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Who is ‘you’?
An exploration of what we might mean by ‘me’. First – Identity short film (very good for class discussion) Second Who am I? – very useful website as well.
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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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Another resource for Fallacies of Reasoning
Great resource and very accessible to students.
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Philosophy Ideas
Interesting site, interestingly organised. Screen shot below. http://philosophyideas.com/
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Philosophical Health Check
This is a fabulous online interactive to see how coherent your beliefs and values are as a whole (tpm online) Check your [philosophical]Tension Quotient! To take the philosophical health check (PHC), go through the statements below, selecting for each one … Continue reading
Philosophy of Religion website
A wonderfully organised overview of the classic philosophy of religion issues, arguments and problems. http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/
VAPS
Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools. http://vaps.vic.edu.au/
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Ask the Philosopher column in The Australian
Tim writes the “Ask the Philosopher” column in The Weekend Australian, which offers a philosophical take on politics, society and public policy. From his website: http://www.soutphommasane.com.au/home http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/columnists/tim-soutphommasane (Uploaded by Katherine Cheng.)
Neuroscience for kids
Found this American site via Scientific American Mind’s website. Created by Eric Chudler, Ph.D, A neuroscientist (Research Associate Professor) and Director of Education and Outreach at University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials in Seattle, Washington. There is a POETRY COMPETITION for … Continue reading
UNESCO’s Philosophy Portal
http://www.unesco.org/new/index.php?id=19176&L=0 (Uploaded by Katherine Cheng.)
Portal: Mind and brain
On wikipedia. Lots of content and links to other sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mind_and_Brain (Uploaded by Katherine Cheng.)
Oxymoronica
Oxymoron, paradox This is the website, and also the title of a book I once found and enjoy dipping into. It is a collection of oxymorons from history, literature and politics. Examples: Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world … Continue reading
BadArguments.org
A place where you can practice your argument analysis – simple and effective. http://www.badarguments.org/ba/
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International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge essay titles
From the ‘UK’s largest coursework library’ apparently… https://pactiss.org/resources/web-links/international-baccalaureate-theory-of-knowledge-essay-titles
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Humbug! The skeptic’s fieldguide to spotting fallacies in thinking
This is the eBook edition of a text on fallacies. http://www.scribd.com/doc/8009498/HUMBUG-eBook-by-Jef-Clark-and-Theo-Clark (Uploaded by Theo Clark.)
Peter Singer Full Text Articles (Ethics)
A clearing house provided by Singer which contains full-text versions of articles written by him on a wide variety of topics pertaining to ethics. A useful resource if you’d like your students to engage first-hand with the writings of one … Continue reading
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions motion, speech, self-awareness shut down one by one. An astonishing story. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (Uploaded by David Shapland.)
Skeptics on Skeptical Thinking – ABC’s All In the Mind Transcript And mp3
Nobody likes being told their most cherished beliefs are based on myth and misconception. But the global skeptics movement does just that. In the classroom and beyond, All in the Mind excavates the nature of the skeptical enquiry with magician … Continue reading
Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html (Uploaded by David Shapland.)
