The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period… — Dale Jamieson Earth Copy Share Image
If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Is it in the interests of Britain to leave or remain in the EU? As we saw in the referendum, there are… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Animal Copy Share Image
I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the… — Dale Jamieson Challenges Copy Share Image
In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not… — Dale Jamieson Character Copy Share Image
Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and… — Dale Jamieson Consideration Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would… — Dale Jamieson Change Copy Share Image
The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's… — Dale Jamieson Ability Copy Share Image
The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse,… — Dale Jamieson Argument Copy Share Image
Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless.… — Dale Jamieson Autonomous Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature.… — Dale Jamieson Climate Copy Share Image
Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile.… — Dale Jamieson Good life Copy Share Image
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,… — Dale Jamieson Behavior Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Argument Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Argument Copy Share Image
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