War
rape, profit, baby androids, tax exemptions for churches, make-up,
having kids, assisted suicide, abortion, grades inflation, littering,
business ethics…
Canadian
popular philosopher Peg Tittle is back with a fourth volume in her
thought-provoking series of rhetorical questions and answers. Volume
three, Still More Shit That Pisses Me Off, tackled pregnant
men, paying stay-at-home moms, advertising, income tax deductions,
people skills, boy books, speech codes, porn, god, testicular battery
and tranquilizer guns, the Academy Awards, intelligent design and
evolution.
You may have read Tittle's essay "What's Wrong With Mr. and Ms.?" here at Pagan Spirits. In it, she addressed the issues associated with using gendered language as part of a person's formal address of title, which is essentially part of person's name. This essay appears in Tittle's original book Shit That Pisses Me Off. You can also read about her second book here.
She
has written Critical
Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge,
2011), What
If…Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman,
2005), ShouldParents 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 Free
Inquiry, Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal,
The
International Journal of Applied Philosophy,
and Philosophy
in a Contemporary World 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 and posted in and at
the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies website,
Transhumanity.net,
Humanist
in Canada , Links, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Inroads,
The
Nugget,
Canadian
HR Reporter,
Elenchus,
Teaching
and Learning Literature,
University
Affairs,
South
Australian Humanist Post,
Forum,
and The
Humanist.
She
has served on the ethics committee of the North Bay General Hospital
and has had a number of positions in the education, social services,
and recreation fields. She has also worked in maintenance and as a
disc jockey.
From TeachPhilosophy's 10 Definitions
of Critical Thinking:
“Judicious
reasoning about what to believe and, therefore, what to do (Peg
Tittle).”
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