Dale Jamieson

None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,…

— Dale Jamieson

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not…

— Dale Jamieson

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

— Dale Jamieson

Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of…

— Dale Jamieson

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people…

— Dale Jamieson

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

The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential…

— Dale Jamieson

The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create…

— Dale Jamieson

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

If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate…

— Dale Jamieson

If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people…

— Dale Jamieson

We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize…

— Dale Jamieson

Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature.…

— Dale Jamieson

If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people…

— Dale Jamieson

I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for…

— Dale Jamieson

The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,…

— Dale Jamieson

I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

— Dale Jamieson

Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic,…

— Dale Jamieson

If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and…

— Dale Jamieson

It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will…

— Dale Jamieson

The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene…

— Dale Jamieson

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

[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral…

— Dale Jamieson

I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful…

— Dale Jamieson