"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"I am not a Marxist."
"What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?"
"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."
Pleasure!
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
"Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?"
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
"... bureaucracy, in which no men ... can be held responsible, ... could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all."
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
"If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over."
CRT prize
Interview with Julian Assange
Monty Python and Dead Parrot
"Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar."
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
"Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away."
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
Heaven and Hell
“Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"As long as it is allow’d, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, ’tis in vain to pretend, that morality is discover’d only by a deduction of reason."
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”
"Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom."
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
Mr Bean - The Exam
"If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
Mr Bean and Parrot
Vegetarianism?
Australasian Association of Philosophy Homepage
In love with a philosopher
"Cockatoo ergo sum"
Philosopher's Zone
Pacman
Who is this?
Core Reading
Core Reading 1
Lecture 1   (Statements)     PDF    B&W      Q & A
Lecture 2   (Arguments)     PDF    B&W      Q & A
Lecture 3   (Validity & Soundness)     PDF    B&W      Q & A
Lecture 4   (Nondeductive Success: Statistical Syllogism, Inductive Generalization, Analogical Argument)  
Lecture 6   (Fallacies of Relevance)     PDF     B&W      Q & A
Chaser's Noam Chomsky Show
Lecture 7   (Fallacies of Weak Induction)     PDF . B&W     Q & A
Lecture 8   (Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Composition & Division)     PDF . B&W      Q & A  
Lecture 11   (Applications of Valid Argument Forms)     PDF    B&W      Q & A
Lecture 12   (Summary & Revision)     PDF    B&W      Q & A
Lecture 10   (Valid Argument Forms & Symbolization)     PDF    B&W      Q & A  
Lecture 5   (Argument to Best Explanation)     PDF    B&W      Q & A  
Solution to Insomnia
Critical Thinking HOME
Semester 1
Extra Reading
Core Reading 2
Video on Japanese Whaling  (Transcript)
Extra Reading 2
Core Reading 2
Extra Reading 1
Core Reading 3
Core Reading 1
Core Reading 1
Core Reading 2
Debate (2)    Financial compensation to members of the Stolen Generations?      PDF
Core Reading 2
Core Reading 1
Core Reading 1
Lecture 9   (Sentential Forms & Symbolization)     PDF    B&W      Q & A
Extra Reading 1
Core Reading 1
Core Reading 2
Core Reading 1
Extra Reading 1
Core Reading 2
Christian the Lion
Norva's Homepage
Critical Thinking
Core Reading 2
Extra Reading 2
Core Reading 3
Extra Reading 3
Critical Thinking
The concept of the aesthetic
The Philosopher's Magazine
BBC news
Philosophy Cafe
"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
PETA:  People for Ethical Treatment of Animals
Sample Exam Paper
Definition of "Art "?
“we think in words . . . and if not in words, then in mathematical or other symbols. Thus, let no one despise symbols!”
"Natural objects ... must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur."
"It is not easy being green!"
Brain in a Vat
Mosquito vs. teenager
Monster and coffee machine
Propose a story for this square !
What is an Argument ?
What do Philosophers do ?
Bad Arguments
Appeal to Force?
Surprises behind the pictures ......
The Satanic Verses Affair
Rushdie and Knighthood
Iran condemns Rushdie knighthood
Abortion:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Human Rights:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Child Worship:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Animal Rights & Terrorism (Part I):  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Animal Rights & Terrorism (Part II):  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Hirsi Ali vs. Ramadan (Part 1):  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Freedom of Speech vs. Blasphermy
The Da Vinci Code: The Church Responds
South Park vs. Scientology
The Holy Bible
Citroen regrets Mao ad 'insult'
International Holocaust Cartoon Competition
Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
South Park on Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Ali G - Animal Rights
Ali G on ???
Abortion
No Rights
Childhood
Car Ad
upset China
Satanic Verses
Rushdie Knighthood
Rushdie Knighthood
Hirsi Ali vs. Ramadan
Da Vinci Code
Cases of Blasphemy
The Cartoon Debate 2
The Cartoon Debate 1
Holocaust Cartoons
Rushdie on the Cartoons
Jytte Klausen argues against Yale’s decision to cut the cartoons from her book
Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Yale bans the cartoons
The Cartoon Debate 3
Yale Ban on the Cartoons 2
Yale Ban on the Cartoons 1
Muhammad cartoons controversy
Muhammad
Cartoons
Lars Vilks: Al Qaeda won't stop me
South Park Critique
Interview with Cartoon Artist
Put the arguments in Standard Form
Stephen Fry on Church
Ali G
on Animal
Ali G
got told off
Ali G on Euthanasia
Animals & Terror
Tareq Al-Suweidan condemning Danish Government
Yusuf on
the Cartoons
Al-Suweidan on the Cartoons
Ali G vs. Chomsky
Ali G vs. Chomsky
Ali G on Abortion
Ali G on Abortion
Tom Regan on Animal Rights:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Tom Regan on Animals
Peter Singer on Animals:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Peter Singer on Animals
question everything
sponsor us
being
GREEN
insomnia
prizes
Do people have an unlimited right to have children?  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Stop at 2 children:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Mao Condom Ad
Ecological Footprint
Happy Planet Index
Noam Chomsky Interview
Mother Teresa
The Christian Gene!
Existence of God: Put the arguments in Standard Form
Philosophy of the Life of Brian
Condom Ad upset China
Popuation Taboo
Stop @ Two Campaign
Happy Planet Index
Mother Teresa
Hitchens  on
Anti-theism
Ecological Footprint
Assange on Wikileaks
0 Popuation Growth
South Park
& Scientology
Arguments for Animal Rights (Analysis)
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PDF files can be read and printed.
PPT files (click the "lecture" links) should be opened as read-only and studied as slideshows.  
Why
Life of Brian
The Christian Gene
Word of God
Debate (3)    Direct legal restrictions on Religious Satires?      PDF
Debate (1)    Japanese whaling vs. Animal killing in Australia?     PDF
Iran condemns Rushdie knighthood
Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
Freedom of Speech vs. Blasphermy
The Holy Bible
South Park on Danish Cartoon:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
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Yale bans the cartoons
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Ali G on Abortion
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Peter Singer on Animals:  Put the arguments in Standard Form
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Noam Chomsky Interview
Philosophy of the Life of Brian
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Arguments against Abortion
Arguments for God (Analysis)
Think for Yourself !
Arguments for Wkileaks (put them in Standard Form (SF))
Arguments against God
Do satires demonise?
Do we have to kill animals? (put argument in SF)
Inconsistent Premises (must watch)
Logical Positivism on Statements
Extra Reading 1
Benevolent Creator?
PDF    B&W      Q & A
Core Reading 1
Core Reading 2
Arguments against Wkileaks (put them in SF)
Should Australia help Assange? (put arguments in SF)
South Park Critique
Fear or Respect?
Knights & Knaves
Extra Reading 1
Core Reading 1
Core Reading 1
Identify argument forms
Identify argument forms
Identify argument forms (Analysis)
Extra Reading 2
Sheldon on Leonard's RAA (not a fallacy at all ! )
Debate on 'Life of Brian'