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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think when it comes to climate change, the single most important thing in the world is for the United States' Congress… — 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
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — 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
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
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
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — 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 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
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
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson 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 Copy Share Image
I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part… — 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
