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Philosophical Writings:
Booklet:
An
Introduction to Ethics
Booklet:
The
Abortion Debate
Book:
The
Meaning of Love
Book:
Ethical
and
Philosophical Foundations of Economics
Fighting
for
the Higher Self
To
Save Others, Health Care Providers Must Save
Themselves Too: It Is Time for Moral Triage in
Medicine
Reasoning:
What It Is To Be Rational
What Makes
Something Worth Doing?
Commentary
on Sarah Wildman's Essay about Her Daughter
Orli's End of Life Medical Care
Simplistic
Moral Reasoning
A
Follow-up to Anne Applebaum's "History Will
Judge the Complicity: Why have Republican
leaders abandoned their principles in support of
an immoral and dangerous president?"
An Anomaly
of the Logic of Age Ratios
Religion,
Morality, Secular Ideals, and Ethics Education
Fairness
as Moral and Conceptual Relevance
The
Intersection of Ethics and Economics
Pandemics
and Economics
A
Critique of Roger Kimball's "Restoring American
Culture"
Obligation and
Ordo Amoris
Underlying
Ethics of Economic Inequality and the 2013 U.S.
Government Shutdown
Commentary
on N. Gregory Mankiw's "Defending the One
Percent"
Discrimination
As a Sign of More General Wrongdoing
A Perfect
Example of Considering General Wrongdoing or a
General Problem to Be Discrimination
Constitutional
Admissions (and Hiring) Policies to Replace
Affirmative Action
Partisanship
Words, Pictures,
Logic, Ethics, and Not Being God
Examples of
a Common Kind of Fallacy in the Social Sciences (Material
Added 6/3/2017)
A
"Close Reading" (Critique) of Arthur C. Brooks
"Your Professional Decline is Coming (Much)
Sooner Than You Think"
The Electoral College,
Fairness, and Sports
The Left-Right
Divide in America and the Problem of Voting for
People Instead of Ideas
The Logic and
Fairness/Unfairness of Gerrymandering
Gerrymandering and
the Courts
Deriving Moral
Principles from Our Ethical Intuitions
Guilt
and Forgiveness
Additional
Comments about Forgiveness
Justification
of Punishment
Undeserved
Good and Deserved Harm: A Problem With My
"Justification of Punishment"
Ethics
Distinctions for the Derek Chauvin Trial
The Value of
Labor and the Myth of Sisyphus
Disrespect and
Disproportionate Retaliation
Appropriate/Inappropriate
Touching: The Ethics of the Joe Biden Kiss of
the Back of Lucy Flores' Head
A Response
to the Idea of Moral Resilience as a Remedy for
Moral Distress
A Road to
Redemption for Senator Katie Britt
Artificial
and Human Unintelligence: Cases of YouTube and
Blue Cross
Commentary
on the book of Job
God and Evil
Some Thoughts
About How Machines Could Think
Follow
Up to "Some Thoughts About How Machines Could
Think"
(New
Material Added 2/23/2018)
Difficult
Left-Turn Errors for Driverless Cars to
Try to Avoid
Artificial
Intelligence
A
Brief History of Artificial Intelligence and
Bio-Neural Engineering of Human IQ and Talent
The Concept of
"Tolerance"
The Concept of
Intimacy
How Can
Physical Touch Be Related to Emotional Affection
(As It Can Be, and Often Is)?
Sex and
Using People
Understanding
Each
Other (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
False
Cause,
Misdiagnosis, and the Fallacy of Affirming
the Consequent
The Concept of
"Racial Profiling"
Marriage, Civil
Union, and "Same-sex Marriage"
The
Concept
of Universal Health Insurance (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
The
Essential Goal of Medicine and the Moral Role of
the Physician in Regard to Euthanasia
The Concept of the
Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide (Word doc)
(HTML
Webpage)
Determining,
Declining, and Terminating Medical Treatments
Active
Vs Passive Euthanasia: Moral Equivalence or
Not? Philippa Foot Vs James Rachels
The
Flaw
of Legalism in Society and Education (Word doc)
(HTML
Webpage)
Obeying
and Breaking Laws, Rules, and Agreements
Abandoning the
Public Pursuit of Personal Excellence
The Definition of
Death
Misguiding
Values
Requiring
COVID Vaccinations
The Slippery Slope
Argument
Some
Jewish
Beliefs as Found in Jewish Prayers
Scientific
Confirmation
The Debate
Between Evolution and Intelligent Design
Evolution and
the Myth of (the Significance of) the Male
Orgasm
The Myth About
"Myths About Passion In the
Bedroom"
Sexual
Objectification and the Moment
When Marriage Becomes "Incest"
"Realistic"
Sex Education Programs (Word doc)
(HTML
Webpage)
Protections For
Disobeying Bad Laws?
Morality
and Law
Business
Ethics and BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama (Word
doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Group Loyalty
and Being a Good Person
Serving and
Promoting Higher Purpose
Constitutional
Safeguards
For Majority Rule
A
Close Reading and Response to Senator Tom
Cotton's Speech/Article About Immigration
A
Close Reading and Response to Kevin D. Roberts'
"Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order"
2016
Conservatism
Ethics Laws
for Government Officials (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Democracy,
Religion, and Moral Leadership (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Diminished
Logic and Civility of Public Discourse
The Need for
Protection Against Governmental and
Commercial
Callous
Indifference and Unreasonableness
The Proper
Role of Judges: Compatible with
Compassion? (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Requiring
Judicial
Recusal from Presiding Over Cases Involving
Election Contributors (Word doc)
(HTML Webpage)
Copyright in the
Digital Age
The
Opportunity
and
Peril of
Constitutional
Reform
in Alabama
Reforming
Alabama's 1901 Constitution
Itches Without
Scratches
Follow Up
to "Itches Without Scratches"
Legitimately
Lying
Justifiable
Adultery
Pain and Pleasure,
And Their Perception
A
Philosophy of Photography
A
Perspective on the Ethics of Clinical Medical
Research on Human Subjects (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Fair Economic Trade
Across Generations
Fair
Pay Over Time and Reparations
A Proposed Model for
Overcoming the 2008 Financial “Meltdown”
When
Economic
Process Displaces Purpose
My
Interpretation and Analysis of Kant's Ideas About
Ethics
Qualitative
Quantitative
Debate
in Social Science
A Philosophy of
Science Logic Problem
Judge Roy
Moore's Error and Controversy
(Alabama
Courthouse
and the Ten Commandments)
However, even though Moore is wrong,
A
Public Official's Expressing Faith Does Not
Necessarily
Combine
Church and State
Stem Cell
Research and Sacrifice for Others: the
Inconsistency of the Conservative View (Word
doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Anatomy of a Tax
Increase Defeat in Alabama
Time
Space Analogy (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Why I Believe I
Find Ice Hockey and Soccer Boring to Watch
Law and Order
and Morality
Educational
Aspects
of
House (the TV program)
Moral Looting in
the Aftermath of Disasters
The Concept of
Winning (Championships) in Sports
Subject Matter Teaching:
Study
Help
Teaching Math to
Young Children
Teaching
Young Children Number Relationships and Patterns
Introducing
Multiplication
Multiplication
Shortcuts, Tricks, and Explanations
Counting
By Not Counting
Reading As Children
Do
The
Number of Letters in the English Alphabet
Understanding
Algebra
Algebra
I
Supplemental Preface
Math "Rate" Problems
Constructing
Counter Dilemmas From Dilemmas
E-Mail
Introduction
to
Philosophy
The
Theban Plays of Sophocles
Writing College
Papers and Exam Answers
Preparing
College Reading Assignments
A Loose
Introduction to Reading Plato
Uses and
Importance of Hyperlinks
Writing Rhyming
Poetry Without Talent
The Power and Purpose
of Poetry in Prose
Teaching Literary
Style
Explanations and
Pseudo-Explanations in Science
Math,
Science, Knowledge, and Nature
Shedding
Light
on Time: Learning and Teaching Difficult
Concepts
Why
Graphs
of Equations in the Form
Y
= aX + b Turn Out To Be Linear (i.e., Straight
Lines)
More About Fractions
Than Anyone Needs to Know
Teaching "Quantity"
Fractions
The Concept of the
Mole in Chemistry -- Why It Works, and Why It Is
Important
Stoichiometry Stuff
in Chemistry
Squaring
Numbers Which End in 5
Selected
Passages
from Jane Austen
Strategy in Tennis
(Particularly Doubles)
The
World of Group E-Mail
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Philosophy of Education
Writings:
The
Socratic Method: Teaching by Questions
Teaching
Effectively: Helping Students Absorb and
Assimilate
Material
Unfair
Bad Rap on Remote Learning
Online
Versus Onground Teaching (Word document) (HTML
Webpage)
Getting
Schools Back to Normal During or After the
COVID-19 Pandemic Is Not Good Enough
Logic and
Ethics: The Harm of Logical Disability
Understanding
and
Teaching
Place-Value
Teaching
Place-Value Using 'Color Value
Teaching
Young Children Number Relationships and Patterns
Between Parent and
Institution
To Parents Trying to
Improve Schools
The Concept of
Teaching "To" the Test
More
About Evaluations: Follow-Up to "The Concept
of Teaching 'To' the Test"
Equal "Opportunity" To
Learn
Desirable
School Curriculum
Suspension and
Expulsion from Schools
Formal
Systems Need Discretionary Mechanisms
Unfairness of the
College Board SATs
The Immorality of
Giving Tests for Grades in Teaching
So-Called
"Subjective" and "Objective" Grading
Using
Questions to Teach Better
Pet Peeve:
Students Who Say "I Don't Know What You Are
Looking For"
A Common, but
Terrible, Mistake in Teaching Math and Science
"Explaining" Math
Poorly
Testing
Reading
Fostering
Insights and Understanding Through Teaching
Teaching
Science and Literature
Mislabeling
"Highly Qualified" Teachers
A
Critique of Darling-Hammond's Critique of Teach
for America (Word doc) (HTML
Webpage)
Teaching Logic and
Abstract Thinking to Third Graders?
Having Understanding
Versus Knowing Correct Explanations
Insight,
Inspiration, Logic, and Learning
Understanding,
Shallow
Thinking, and Schools
Learning in a
Classroom
"Thinking" Is
Most Difficult for Supposedly Best Students
Understanding
"Understanding":
What
It Means to "Understand" Something
Moral and
Spiritual Values & (Public) Schools
The Problem With
Teaching Through Bribery and Coercion
The Point of
Studying Ethics
Doing Ethics:
Rational and Creative Thinking
Neither
Requiring a Business Ethics Course Nor
Teaching Ethics
‘Across the Business
Curriculum’ Will Significantly Reduce
Business
Ethics Crises or Scandals (HTML Webpage) (Word
Document)
The Uses of
Philosophy In Today's World
Making
the Most of Your University Courses; What
to Expect Academically at College
Evaluating
Students,
Teachers,
and Student Teachers
Evaluating
Teachers by Video Tape Lessons and Portfolios
Methodology vs
Content in Teaching
Schools Are Not
Places of Education
Typical School
Curriculum and Instruction
Are
Too Narrow and Wasteful
Adopting a
Kidnapper's Creed for Education:
No
Child
Left
Behind
Incidental
Institutional Bias
A Proposal to Fund
Education Better Without
Increasing
Taxes
or Having a Lottery
Student Violence
The Alabama
High School Curriculum and Exit Exam --
comments about the curriculum apply to schools in
other states as well.
Summer
Renaissance
Program
Proposal
Computers Versus
Books and Paper in Schools?
Further
Examples and an Exception to the Above
"Computers Versus Books..."
Significant
Differences
Between
Writing and Talking; Why Talking Seems Easier
A
Corollary to the Above: Some Differences Between
Reading and Listening
About Simplifying
Teaching Theories
Bogus "Critical
Thinking" Teaching Strategies
Learning Styles?
Raising Kids Jewish
(not to be confused
with
raising
Jewish
kids)
A Case Against
Government Awards of Recognition (Particularly
by Schools)
[Many
of these same essays, organized in an online
book format with an Introduction]
Photos Set to Poetry and
Music
Poetry
Set to Photography and Music (Slide Shows)
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