Just Think about It - Tittle, Peg
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A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment (the notion of garbage, who owns the water, climate change as entertainment, ... ), business (the limits of advertising, business in denial, ...), individual rights and social issues (making certain words illegal, slutwalks, cultural anarchy, a concept of noise trespass, ...), ethics (what's wrong with selling your organs, euthanasia, should parents need to be licensed, ...), education (the failure of ...), and so on.Note: There is now a 2nd edn available, which includes all of the pieces in the first edition, plus more than…mehr

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A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment (the notion of garbage, who owns the water, climate change as entertainment, ... ), business (the limits of advertising, business in denial, ...), individual rights and social issues (making certain words illegal, slutwalks, cultural anarchy, a concept of noise trespass, ...), ethics (what's wrong with selling your organs, euthanasia, should parents need to be licensed, ...), education (the failure of ...), and so on.Note: There is now a 2nd edn available, which includes all of the pieces in the first edition, plus more than eighty additional pieces."... It's all thought-provoking, and whether or not you'll end up agreeing with her conclusions, her essays make for fascinating reading." Erin O'Riordan"Tittle's pieces are atypical of philosophical writing in the best ways: of interest to non-specialists, yet instructive and profound, yet entertaining." Ron Cooper, Professor of Philosophy "... a passionate, stylistically-engaging writer ..." George, Amazon
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Peg Tittle has an M.A. in Philosophy, a B.Ed. in English and Man-in-Society [sic], and a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy (with a minor in Psychology). She has written Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge, 2011), What If...Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman, 2005), Should Parents be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus, 2004), Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview, 2000). She also contributed the Ethics unit to the high school philosophy text, Philosophy: Questions and Theories (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2003). Her papers have appeared in Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal 1 (Autumn 1997), The International Journal of Applied Philosophy 11.1 (Summer/Fall 1996), and Philosophy in a Contemporary World 3.1 (Spring 1996) and have been anthologized in At Issue: Is Parenthood a Right or a Privilege? and Current Controversies: Child Abuse. She was a columnist for The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years and for Philosophy Now for two years. Her columns have also been published on a regular basis in Humanist in Canada, Links, and Academic Exchange Quarterly and on an occasional basis in Inroads, The Nugget, Canadian HR Reporter, Elenchus, Teaching and Learning Literature, University Affairs, South Australian Humanist Post, Forum, and The Humanist. She is also the author of several novels: Gender Fraud: a fiction, Impact, It Wasn't Enough, What Happened to Tom (on Goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue), and Exile.