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 People Are Toppling Monuments to Racism
- 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
- 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: 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.)
