Dale Jamieson

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

Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to…

— Dale Jamieson

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a…

— Dale Jamieson

I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time…

— Dale Jamieson

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

— Dale Jamieson

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

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

Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent…

— Dale Jamieson

We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and…

— Dale Jamieson

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

— Dale Jamieson

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever…

— Dale Jamieson

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they…

— Dale Jamieson

People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is…

— Dale Jamieson

I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing…

— Dale Jamieson

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period…

— Dale Jamieson

If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,…

— Dale Jamieson

In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate…

— Dale Jamieson

People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.…

— Dale Jamieson

Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the…

— Dale Jamieson

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

— Dale Jamieson

Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about…

— Dale Jamieson

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology…

— Dale Jamieson

The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless.…

— Dale Jamieson

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

— Dale Jamieson