I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create… — 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
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
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 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
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
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
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 with political leaders, much in the same way that acts of civil disobedience during the civil rights' movement were really acts of political communication, trying to get laws changed rather than based on the thought that… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
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
