Peter Singer's Animal Liberation & Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights

Short video overviews of Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights:

College Vaccination Mandates do not Violate Medical Ethics

"College Vaccination Mandates do not Violate Medical Ethics" at the American Journal of Bioethics blog (6/30/2021).

Relativism in Ethics

Here's a quick video on relativism in ethics (and why it's a theory that be shown false by many sound arguments and isn't supported by any sound arguments!):

Thank you notes, again!

My philosopher friend Dan Lowe (at U Michigan) gives his students an assignment to write a thank you note to some author they read in his Intro to Ethics class who they appreciated in some way.

THIS IS A GREAT ASSIGNMENT and more instructors who run classes where they read and discuss living and email-accessible folks (like me and the philosophy friends here) should do it.

Here are 20 notes to me, in response to my "Early and Later Abortions: Ethics and Law" from Bob Fischer's Ethics: Left and Right anthology. (This paper led to the book Thinking Critically About Abortion and other writings with Kristina Grob, the Salon article with Jonathan Dudley, and a bunch of new e-friends and some reputation as being someone who can help people engage controversial issues in productive and "polite" ways.)

There are some nice themes to them!

On NBC News about COVID Vaccine Side-Effects!

 See the clip here!