I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson Ethics Copy Share Image
We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation. — Dale Jamieson Adaptable Copy Share Image
Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is. — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history. — Dale Jamieson Danger Copy Share Image
Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in. — Dale Jamieson Eras Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than… — Dale Jamieson Consciousness Copy Share Image
Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme… — Dale Jamieson Barriers Copy Share Image
Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the… — Dale Jamieson Challenges Copy Share Image
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize… — Dale Jamieson Agriculture Copy Share Image
Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Altruism Copy Share Image
If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Behavior Copy Share Image
I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time… — Dale Jamieson Catholic Copy Share Image
I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Consequentialism Copy Share Image
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction. — Dale Jamieson Fiction Copy Share Image
Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever… — Dale Jamieson Bad people Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is… — Dale Jamieson Animal Copy Share Image
In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Animal Copy Share Image
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson History Copy Share Image
Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we… — Dale Jamieson Character Copy Share Image
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural… — Dale Jamieson Calm Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Adaptability Copy Share Image
Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense… — Dale Jamieson Behavior Copy Share Image
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it… — Dale Jamieson Acting Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
