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 Bad people Copy Share Image
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction. — Dale Jamieson Fiction Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture. — Dale Jamieson Agriculture Copy Share Image
I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson Ethics Copy Share Image
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins. — Dale Jamieson Behavior Copy Share Image
Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities. — Dale Jamieson Character Copy Share Image
Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years. — Dale Jamieson Apocalypse Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a… — 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… — Dale Jamieson Caricatures Copy Share Image
When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people… — Dale Jamieson Change Copy Share Image
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 Consciousness 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… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms. — Dale Jamieson Nature Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many… — Dale Jamieson Abstract 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
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Animal 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 Challenges Copy Share Image
If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not… — Dale Jamieson Character 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… — Dale Jamieson Approach 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
The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create… — Dale Jamieson Climate Copy Share Image
Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is. — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation. — Dale Jamieson Adaptable Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Abstract Copy Share Image
I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology… — 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 Acting Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the… — 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 Earth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies… — 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 Character 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 History Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Animal Copy Share Image
