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
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
I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic,… — 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
People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse,… — 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
