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48Ecosystem Health: Some Preventive MedicineEnvironmental Values 4 (4). 1995.Some ecologists, philosophers, and policy analysts believe that ecosystem health can be defined in a rigorous way and employed as a management goal in environmental policy. The idea of ecosystem health may have something to recommend it as part of a rhetorical strategy, but I am dubious about its utility as a technical term in environmental policy. I develop several objections to this latest version of scientism in environmental policy, and conclude that our environmental problems fundamentally …Read more
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67Sober and Wilson on Psychological AltruismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3): 702-710. 2002.The problem of Evolutionary Altruism (EA) "is to show how\nbehaviors that benefit others at the expense of self can\nevolve;" group selection is the key to the solution of this\nproblem. The problem of Psychological Altruism (PA) is to\ndetermine whether people "have altruistic desires that are\npsychologically ultimate." After carefully considering the\narguments of both psychologists and philosophers, Sober and\nWilson render the verdict "not proven." But just in the\nnick of time, evolutionar…Read more
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2Duties to the distant: Humanitarian aid, development assistance, and humanitarian interventionThe Journal of Ethics 9 (1-2). 2005.
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727Consequentialism, Climate Change, and the Road AheadChicago Journal of International Law 13 (2): 439-468. 2013.In this paper I tell the story of the evolution of the climate change regime, locating its origins in "the dream of Rio," which supposed that the nations of the world would join in addressing the interlocking crises of environment and development. I describe the failure at Copenhagen and then go on to discuss the "reboot" of the climate negotiations advocated by Eric A. Posner and David Weisbach. I bring out some ambiguities in their notion of International Paretianism, which is supposed to effe…Read more
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2On the ethics of the use of animals in scienceIn Tom Regan & Donald VanDeVeer (eds.), And Justice for All: New Introductory Essays in Ethics and Public Policy, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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57Klimawandel und globale Gerechtigkeit: Neues Problem, altes Paradigma?In Angela Kallhoff (ed.), Klimagerechtigkeit Und Klimaethik, De Gruyter. pp. 23-38. 2015.
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28Great Apes and the Human Resistance to equalityIn Peter Singer & Paola Cavalieri (eds.), The Great Ape Project, St. Martin's Griffin. pp. 223--229. 1993.
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22The “trivial neuron doctrine” is not trivialBehavioral 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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New York UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)