Dale Jamieson

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

— Dale Jamieson

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

— Dale Jamieson

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

— Dale Jamieson

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

— Dale Jamieson

Our differences should not be exaggerated.

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

— Dale Jamieson

The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

— 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

Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world.

— 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

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

— Dale Jamieson

It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

— Dale Jamieson

Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

— 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

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

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

— Dale Jamieson

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme…

— Dale Jamieson

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

— Dale Jamieson

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly…

— Dale Jamieson

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public…

— Dale Jamieson

Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is…

— 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

There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll…

— 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

A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything…

— Dale Jamieson

Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

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

I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part…

— Dale Jamieson

I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a…

— Dale Jamieson

In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to…

— Dale Jamieson

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid…

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Dale Jamieson

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

— Dale Jamieson

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

— Dale Jamieson

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

— Dale Jamieson