Reason and reasoning Category
The danger of being swamped by confident idiots
The Trump phenomenon and the influence of One Nation on local politics highlight how irrational beliefs seem to be...
Hugh Harris
14 February 2017
This is why you will lose your argument
So the Great Barrier Reef has not been listed as endangered by UNESCO. And same-sex marriage is high on...
Peter Ellerton
15 June 2015
How an approach to science helps define the political centre
There was a bit of talk over the last election cycle, expressed in the usual language of political left...
Peter Ellerton
14 November 2014
Investment and cognitive bias
Cognitive fallacies can damage that most iconic of self-interested activities: investing.
Meredith Doig
25 April 2014
Peter Ellerton on Brandis’s logical fallacies
RSA committee member Peter Ellerton explains why Australia's top lawmaker has got it wrong. Brandis complains that "climate change...
Peter Ellerton
23 April 2014
On Reason and Reasoning
Brilliant new video on Reason by Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - http://on.ted.com/g06r5
Meredith Doig
18 March 2014
Where is the proof in pseudoscience?
RSA committee member Peter Ellerton explains what constitutes knowledge - put simply, it's when it's so 'settled' that it's...
Peter Ellerton
01 February 2014
What you think is right may actually be wrong
RSA Committee member Peter Ellerton explains that how we think we think is not actually how we think.
Peter Ellerton
21 January 2014