Applied Philosophy is the application of philosophic methods to issues of practical concern

Outline

• Abortion
  • Supreme Court Decisions
  • Morality of Abortion, Issue and Arguments
• Analysis of Decisions
  • Americanizing the War in Vietnam
  • Building a Border Wall
  • Invading Iraq
  • Invading, Staying, and Withdrawing from Afghanistan
  • Withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal
  • Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord
• Bias
  • Conceptual analysis of bias
  • Is the news media politically biased?
• Capital Punishment, Issue and Arguments
  • How should the worst crimes be punished?
• Climate Change: Theory, Proof, and Effects
  • Proof that climate change is real
• Conspiracy Theories
  • A conspiracy theory explains events by invoking a secret plot by a group of conspirators.
  • Ockham’s Razor provides an a priori reason for rejecting conspiracy theories, since the straightforward explanation of events is vastly simpler.
• Covid-19
  • Disease, Drugs, Tests, Vaccines, Virus, Politics
• Determining What’s True
• Disinformation
  • “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” (Voltaire)
  • Big Lie
  • Legitimacy of Biden’s Win
• Debt Ceiling Crisis
  • A debt ceiling crisis occurs when the debt limit is reached, requiring the Treasury to take extraordinary measures to prevent the US from defaulting on its obligations.
• Democracy
  • The idea of democracy is simple: rule by the people. But functioning democracies are complex, for good reason.
• Election Forecasting Sites
• Fact-Checking
  • Fact-checkers rate claims true, false, misleading, and unsupported by evaluating the arguments
• Fooling Yourself and Others with Statistics
  • Statistics is tricky. It’s easy to fool yourself and others.
• Global Warming: Theory, Proof, and Effects
  • Proof that global warming is real
• Gun Control, Issue and Arguments
  • Analysis of the arguments
• Health Care
  • Affordable Care Act
  • Covid Pandemic
  • Health Care Models
• Liberalism, Libertarianism, and the Welfare State, Briefly
• Police Misconduct
  • Breonna Taylor
• Senate Filibuster
  • Overcoming, Bypassing, and Nuking the Filibuster
• Socialism and Capitalism, Briefly
  • Socialism is an economic system where most capital goods are owned and controlled by the government. In a Capitalist system most capital goods are privately owned.
• Supreme Court Decision-Making
  • Philosophies of SC Decision-Making
  • Originalism v. Living Constitutionalism
• Trump Matters
  • Analysis of Counter-arguments to Charge of Abuse of Power in Ukraine Impeachment
  • Analysis of Decision to Build a Border Wall
  • Analysis of Decision to Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
  • Analysis of Decision to Withdraw from Iran Nuclear Deal
  • Argument that Trump Violated the Espionage Act in Not Returning Documents
  • Mueller’s Argument that Trump Obstructed Justice
  • Trump’s Attempt to Keep himself in Power
  • Trump Presidency: Review, Analysis, Links
• Welfare State, Issue and Arguments
  • Welfare Statism is the view that the state should guarantee its citizens a minimally decent standard of living, insuring them against the risks and uncertainties of life.