Dale Jamieson

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

— Dale Jamieson

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

— Dale Jamieson

Our differences should not be exaggerated.

— Dale Jamieson

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

— Dale Jamieson

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

— Dale Jamieson

It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

— Dale Jamieson

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

— Dale Jamieson

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a…

— Dale Jamieson

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid…

— Dale Jamieson

In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to…

— Dale Jamieson

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

— Dale Jamieson

The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

— Dale Jamieson

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not…

— Dale Jamieson

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people…

— Dale Jamieson

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around…

— Dale Jamieson

Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk…

— Dale Jamieson

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a…

— Dale Jamieson

I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.

— Dale Jamieson

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people…

— Dale Jamieson

We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many…

— Dale Jamieson

The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create…

— Dale Jamieson

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of…

— Dale Jamieson

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that…

— Dale Jamieson

I think when it comes to climate change, the single most important thing in the world is for the United States' Congress…

— Dale Jamieson

If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,…

— Dale Jamieson

I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for…

— Dale Jamieson

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are…

— Dale Jamieson

People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is…

— Dale Jamieson

Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of…

— Dale Jamieson

It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will…

— Dale Jamieson

I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part…

— Dale Jamieson

I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

— Dale Jamieson

Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world.

— Dale Jamieson

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

— Dale Jamieson

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

— Dale Jamieson

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

— Dale Jamieson

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

— Dale Jamieson