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07 Apr

How to improve your critical thinking skills

07/04/2025
By Peter Ellerton
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There is a Fox News headline that goes like this: 'Transgender female runner who beat 14,000 women at London Marathon offers to ...

17 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

The decisions we make

The new year is well and truly over, and most Australians are back to their normal lives. Which is another way of saying that the va...

29 Dec

Feature series

The principles of fairness in rational discourse

09/01/2025
By Peter Ellerton
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This article is part of our ‘Timeless Pieces’ series of summer reading, featuring articles from our former hardcopy Australian Rational...

14 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

Can reason survive in a sea of emotion?

We are facing the growing challenge of how to respond incisively and effectively to curb the movements away from rational thought and t...

05 Feb

Letters to the Editor

Criticism of Israel’s militarism is not antisemitism

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

07 Jan

Philosophy & Psychology

How even rational people have sceptical blind spots

07/01/2024
By James Fodor
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Most readers would doubtless recognise the importance of being sceptical about the information, arguments, and ideas that we encounter,...

12 Nov

Philosophy & Psychology

Philosophical fashions and conceptual progress

31/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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Many years ago, as an undergraduate student of philosophy, I was invited to participate in a special seminar for honours students conve...

02 Apr

Science & Health

Rationalists and circumcision

02/04/2023
By Meredith Doig
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On 14 April 2023, it will be 10 years since I sent out the very first edition of ‘RSA Daily’. Every weekday morning for a decade, I...

07 Feb

Ethics & Religion

How I dropped the dogma and took control of my own destiny

I was about six years old when the parish priest walked into the room. His vestments swirled around him as we all rose in deference to ...

08 Jan

Feature series

A fundamental examination of the intersection of reason and belief (Part 2)

07/09/2022
By Hugh Harris
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This is Part 2. You can read Part 1 here. Distinguishing faith and reason Richard Colledge, in ‘Intellectual Assent and th...

07 Jan

Feature series

A fundamental examination of the intersection of reason and belief (Part 1)

07/09/2022
By Hugh Harris
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"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their t...

05 Jan

Feature series

The age of reason: Polarisation is undermining rational debate

07/09/2022
By Louis Coutts
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Politicians often confront us with warnings about the greatest threats facing their country or the world, and, just as frequently, othe...

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