Today we talk about what I mean when I say, "Ethics is deeply personal." We'll also touch on formal logic, what "epistemology" means, and why Geordi is always ejecting perfectly good warp cores out of the Enterprise.

References:

10:30 Black Feminist Thought, p. 270.

12:20 Black Feminist Thought, p. 271

15:55 Black Feminist Thought, p. 284

It's a bite-sized nugget of tasty ethics! Chew on this ten minute romp through space, time, and ethics where we discuss WK Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief," an influential 1877 paper about moral and epistemic responsibility.

You can read the whole paper here for free!

Or you can read the Wikipedia article about it.

What is public health, and what does it have to do with philosophy?

Paul Starr, "Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game," The American Prospect no. 17 (Spring 1994): 19-29.

Benjamin Svetkey, "SimEarth," Entertainment Weekly, January 13, 1995.

P. Gatseva, M. Argirova, "Public health: the science of promoting health," The Journal of Public Health, 30 March, 2011.

Rene Descartes, Meditations, p. 93 (Hackett Press)

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, p. 6-7.

Jonathan McIntosh, "Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling"

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1, p. 138.

John T. Correll, "Serial Air Invasion of Burma: March 5 - March 11, 1944," National WWII Glider Pilots Association.

How do you navigate the dilemma of personal liberty and social responsibility? And who is Hippocrates?

References:

WHO: Vaccines are safe

CDC: Vaccines are safe

13:52 "On the Sacred Disease" from the Hippocratic Corpus

32:14 "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" by Philippa Foot

37:40 Guillan-Barre Syndrome

41:50 Jane Lawrence, 2000. The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization of Native American Women. American Indian Quarterly. 24(3) University of Nebraska Press. 400-419.

A dive into the listener mailbag! THis episode deals with:

- Is it wrong to bring the dead back to life?

- Is it possible to go backwards, or only go the other way?

- Why are swear words bad?

- *muffled chicken queries*

00:00 “Diego Rivera Rondo” by Peter Owens

00:30 Labastida, Jaime (1993). Encuentros Con Diego Rivera. El Colegio Nacional. pp. 260–261.

03:27 “Frankens-dyin’” by Peter Owens

09:41 “An Undetermined Fate” by Philip Ayers

18:06 “Mugen Sunset” by Peter Owens

24:37 “Tiniest Dog in the World” by Peter Owens

28:30 “Confutatis” in Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, © Chœur des Marais, Villefranche sur Saône, Fr

30:10 “English vs. Arabic” from Mohammed in Texas by Mo Amer, Fair Use

34:21 “Circle” by Otherguys

36:50 “George Costanza at the Beach” by Peter Owens

43:22 “Making the Trip Home” by American Legion

What do Ken Ham, Bill Nye, Charlie Kirk, and Alcibiades all have in common? I'm not quite sure but I think we'll figure out on this episode of Things You Can Do.

"The Debate Style that Propelled Charlie Kirk's Movement" by Ken Bensinger and Charlie Smart

"epimeleomai" in A Greek-English Lexicon (LSJ)

"Ken Ham vs. Bill Nye - The Short Version"

"Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - Official (HD)"

Phaedo by Plato. Trans. by GMA Grube (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977).

How do we know which are the "okay" ways to break the rules, and which aren't? Does playing a game mean that you only follow the game's rules and don't have to act like a normal, "responsible" member of society? In this inaugural episode of Things You Can Do, we explore what it means for something to be "ethical," what it means for something to be "moral," and how those ideas are affected by their context within the rules of the game.