Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson 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
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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
[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
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
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins. — Dale Jamieson 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 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 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
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