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
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.)
