• New York University
    Department of Philosophy
    Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies Program
    Other faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
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    A Note on Originality
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 17 (2): 221-225. 1979.
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    Great Apes and the Human Resistance to equality
    In Peter Singer & Paola Cavalieri (eds.), The Great Ape Project, St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 223--229. 1993.
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    The “trivial neuron doctrine” is not trivial
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5): 841-842. 1999.
    I argue that the trivial neuron doctrine as characterized by Gold & Stoljar is not trivial; it appears to be inconsistent with property dualism as well as some forms of functionalism and externalism. I suggest that the problem is not so much with the particular way in which Gold & Stoljar draw the distinction as with the unruliness of the distinction itself. Their failure to see this may be why they misunderstand the views of the Churchlands.
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    The future of environmental philosophy
    with Robert Frodeman
    Ethics and the Environment 12 (2): 120-122. 2007.
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    Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction
    Cambridge University Press. 2008.
    What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. The discussion is accessible and richly illustrated with…Read more
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    Sport Hunting as an Instinct
    with Marc Bekoff
    Environmental Ethics 13 (4): 375-378. 1991.
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    Singer and His Critics (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 1999.
    This is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Singer, one of the leaders of the practical ethics movement, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century
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    Constructing practical ethics
    In Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2013.
    This chapter sketches a broad history of practical ethics. It identifies five distinguishable styles of work in practical ethics: the Vertical Approach, the Horizontal Approach, Analysis and Intuition, Reasoning From Middle-Level Principles, and the Case Approach. It is argued that practical ethics is today a glorious mess, as evidenced by the different philosophical views implied by the different approaches. Some philosophers also practice more than one of these styles, sometimes in the same pa…Read more
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    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. This book is about what climate change is, why we failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do
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    Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress (review)
    Philosophical Topics 12 (3): 271-274. 1981.
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    The twenty-two papers here are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature.
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    Whither environmental philosophy?
    Ethics and the Environment 12 (2): 125-127. 2007.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ethics & the Environment 12.2 (2007) 125-127MuseSearchJournalsThis JournalContents[Access article in PDF]Whither Environmental Philosophy?Dale JamiesonBy most reasonable standards, environmental philosophy has been an enormous success since its beginnings in the 1970s. Courses in the subject are now taught around the world, there are many opportunities for publishing, there are two dedicated graduate programs, and there are even some…Read more
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    A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 1991.
    _A Companion to Environmental Philosophy_ is a pioneering work in the burgeoning field of environmental philosophy. This ground-breaking volume contains thirty-six original articles exemplifying the rich diversity of scholarship in this field. Contains thirty-six original articles, written by international scholars. Traces the roots of environmental philosophy through the exploration of cultural traditions from around the world. Brings environmental philosophy into conversation with other fields…Read more
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    Egoizm i prawa zwierząt
    Etyka 18 169-175. 1980.
    Jan Narveson has recently suggested that “rational egoism” might provide a defensible moral perspective that would put animals out of the reach of morality without denying that they are capable of suffering. I argue that rational egoism provides a principled indifference to the fate of animals at high cost: the possibility of principled indifference to the fate of „marginal humans”.
  • Environment
    In Catriona McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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    Slavery, Carbon, and Moral Progress
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (1): 169-183. 2017.
    My goal in this paper is to shed light on how moral progress actually occurs. I begin by restating a conception of moral progress that I set out in previous work, the “Naïve Conception,” and explain how it comports with various normative and metaethical views. I go on to develop an index of moral progress and show how judgments about moral progress can be made. I then discuss an example of moral progress from the past—the British abolition of the Atlantic slave trade—with a view to what can be l…Read more
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    On aims and methods of cognitive ethology
    with Marc Bekoff
    Philosophy of Science Association 1992 110-124. 1992.
    In 1963 Niko Tinbergen published a paper, "On Aims and Methods of Ethology," dedicated to his friend Konrad Lorenz. Here Tinbergen defines ethology as "the biological study of behavior," and seeks to demonstrate "the close affinity between Ethology and the rest of Biology." Tinbergen identifies four major areas of ethology: causation, survival value, evolution, and ontogeny. Our goal is to attempt for cognitive ethology what Tinbergen succeeded in doing for ethology: to clarify its aims and meth…Read more
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    Reflections (4 of 4)
    Science and Engineering Ethics 6 (2): 285-287. 2000.
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    Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice
    Science and Engineering Ethics 16 (3): 431-445. 2010.
    In this paper I make the following claims. In order to see anthropogenic climate change as clearly involving moral wrongs and global injustices, we will have to revise some central concepts in these domains. Moreover, climate change threatens another value that cannot easily be taken up by concerns of global justice or moral responsibility
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    Progressive consequentialism
    with Robert Elliot
    Philosophical Perspectives 23 (1): 241-251. 2009.
    Consequentialism is the family of theories that holds that acts are morally right, wrong, or indifferent in virtue of their consequences. Less formally and more intuitively, right acts are those that produce good consequences. A consequentialist theory includes at least the following three elements: an account of the properties or states in virtue of which consequences make actions right, wrong, or indifferent; a deontic principle which specifies how or to what extent the properties or states mu…Read more
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    Language, mind, and art: essays in appreciation and analysis in honor of Paul Ziff (edited book)
    with Paul Ziff
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.
    This volume is a collection of essays in appreciation, analysis and honor of Paul Ziff, one of the leading American philosophers of the post-World War II period. The essays address questions that loomed large in Ziff's own work. Essays by Zeno Vendler, Jay Rosenberg, and Tom Patton address topics in philosophy of language: understanding, misunderstanding, rules, regularities, and proper names. Michael Resnik examines the nature of numbers, Rita Nolan addresses `mutant predicates', and Peter Alex…Read more
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    Global Environmental Justice
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 36 199-210. 1994.
    Philosophers, like generals, tend to fight the last war. While activists and policy-makers are in the trenches fighting the problems of today, intellectuals are typically studying the problems of yesterday. There are some good reasons for this. It is more difficult to assess and interpret present events than those which are behind us. Time is needed for reflection and to gather reliable information about what has occurred. The desire to understand leads to a style of life that is primarily conte…Read more
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    Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy (edited book)
    with Lori Gruen
    Oxford University Press. 1994.
    The first anthology to highlight the problems of environmental justice and sustainable development, Reflecting on Nature provides a multicultural perspective on questions of environmental concern, featuring contributions from feminist and minority scholars and scholars from developing countries. Selections examine immediate global needs, addressing some of the most crucial problems we now face: biodiversity loss, the meaning and significance of wilderness, population and overconsumption, and the…Read more
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    Environmental Ethics - Beyond the Rhetoric
    The Philosophers' Magazine 3 (3): 25-26. 1998.
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    The ethics of geoengineering
    People and Place 1 (2). 2009.