Practical Ethics - Dr. David Perry

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#22: The Abuse and Misuse of the U.S. Military by Trump and Hegseth

Saturday, May 9, 2026 • Duration 30:34

This episode examines several significant concerns about the current civilian leadership of the U.S. military, including abuses of military culture and command climate, inappropriate deployment of troops domestically, undermining legal guardrails, threatening and directing military actions that violate international law, and misuses of military force in Venezuela and Iran.

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#21: Were Mass Casualties in Gaza Inevitable? Are They Acceptable under Just-War Principles?

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 • Duration 28:31

An examination of the conduct of the Israel Defense Forces in the wake of the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, and the question of whether it amounts to genocide. A philosophical argument in support of the ethical and legal principle of noncombatant immunity is also provided.

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#20: Capital Punishment: Yes in Theory, No in Practice

Sunday, January 5, 2025 • Duration 04:01

Assuming that people have a basic right not to be killed, is that an absolute right? Or can murderers forfeit that right? If capital punishment can be justified in theory, are there enough significant concerns about it in practice that it ought to be abolished?

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#19: Trump Is a Threat to National Security

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 • Duration 05:45

Several concerns about Trump's character, actions that would preclude a security clearance, his handling of classified information, his fawning behavior toward Vladimir Putin, and his illegal attempts to overturn the 2020 election, all of which indicate his threat to national security.

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#18: In Vitro Fertilization and Genetic Testing

Season 1 · Episode 18

Monday, September 25, 2023 • Duration 09:08

An argument supporting the use of IVF and genetic testing by prospective parents seeking to avoid passing on serious genetic diseases to their children.

#17: Russia's War in Ukraine: Ethical and International Legal Perspectives

Season 1 · Episode 17

Monday, January 16, 2023 • Duration 24:24

An interview of Dr. Martin L. Cook, one of our country's best experts on military ethics and just-war theory. He taught at the U.S. Army War College, the Naval War College, and the Air Force Academy. His extensive CV and several video recordings of his lectures are available at https://sites.google.com/view/martinlcook.

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#16: Evaluating the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion

Season 1 · Episode 16

Monday, June 27, 2022 • Duration 37:35

Geoffrey Stone, Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, comments on the June 2022 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson that overruled Roe v. Wade and declared that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee women a right to abortion. Stone is the author of Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-first Century. See his CV at https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/stone-g. In a postscript, the host Dr. Perry reads portions of the dissenting opinion written by justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.

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#15: Animal Welfare and Rights

Season 1 · Episode 15

Monday, November 22, 2021 • Duration 45:22

An interview of Dr. Daniel Dombrowski, Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. His views on abortion are also summarized near the end.

#14: Human Rights Concerns in the Horn of Africa

Season 1 · Episode 14

Monday, November 22, 2021 • Duration 49:44

An interview of Dr. Charles Schaefer, Professor of History and International Studies at Valparaiso University. (Note that in the podcast I erroneously referred to him as Associate Professor, when he is actually a full professor.)

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#13: Biased Data, Killer Robots, and Other Issues in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Season 1 · Episode 13

Monday, June 28, 2021 • Duration 48:58

An interview of Dr. Shannon French, Director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, where she is also a professor of both Philosophy and Law. She previously taught at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and her publications include a great book entitled The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present. Dr. French has also done quite a bit of research and writing on ethical issues in AI, especially but not exclusively in military contexts.

Dr. French also recommends the following books that she didn't have time to mention during this episode:
- Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction
- Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression
- Ruja Benjamin, Race Against Technology
- Shannon Vallor, Technology and the Virtues
- Patrick Lin, Robot Ethics 2.0
- and the work of Elsa Kania, Elke Schwartz, and Bruce Schneier.

Near the end of the podcast, Dr. French's dogs Bert and Maple offer a bit of canine commentary....

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