Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- 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?
- Quentin Tarantino’s Cosmic Justice
- Ai Weiwei: Can Hong Kong’s Resistance Win?
- Judith Butler: When Killing Women Isn’t a Crime
- Democracy Is for the Gods
- Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Fascism’ Claim Too Extreme?
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Kids Are Not Hurt by Screen Time
- How Do You Know Which Emotion a Facial Expression Represents?
- Lab-Grown Human Mini Brains Show Brainy Activity
- The History of Opium, Facing Up to Quantum Mechanics and Other New Science Books
- Eavesdropping Puts Anxious Squirrels at Ease
- Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
- Even If We Knew Everything That Can Be Known, We Wouldn't Know It All
- Why We Need to Study Consciousness
- No Bones about It: People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their "Skeletons"
- New Clues Found in Understanding Near-Death Experiences
- TED talks
- A free world needs political cartoons | Patrick Chappatte
- How climate change could make our food less nutritious | Kristie Ebi
- What streaming means for the future of entertainment | Emmett Shear
- The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer
- Community-powered criminal justice reform | Raj Jayadev
- What reading slowly taught me about writing | Jacqueline Woodson
- How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy | Danielle Citron
- How your emotions change the shape of your heart | Sandeep Jauhar
- A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer | Carl June
- How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing | Phillip Atiba Goff
Tag Archives: Peter Ellerton
20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World
There are at least 250,000 words in the English language. English – or any language – could never hold enough expression to convey the entirety of the human experience
Post modernism explained?
Obviously simplistic, but ripe for comment!
Philosophy of Religion website
A wonderfully organised overview of the classic philosophy of religion issues, arguments and problems. http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/
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)
Hooked on Horoscopes (pdf)
We may not be able to persuade people that astrology and graphology are nonsense, but psychology, with the help of a showman, reveals why they are so popular. The Barnum effect. Psychology and critical thinking. Hooked on horoscopes (pdf)
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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
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense (pdf)
Scientific American – 15 answers to creationist nonsense. Includes evolution, as you would expect. From Scientific American. 15 Answers to Creationst Nonsense (pdf)
