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 Copy Share Image
I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices… — Dale Jamieson 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 of communicating… — 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
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want. — Dale Jamieson 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 barrage of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
