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27Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (review)Ethics and International Affairs 28 (2): 263-265. 2014.
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26What society will expect from the future research communityScience and Engineering Ethics 1 (1): 73-80. 1995.
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26Beyond monkey minds: Toward a richer cognitive ethologyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (3): 571-572. 1994.
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25The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy, Jack M. Hollander , 251 pp., $27.50 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 18 (1): 105-106. 2004.
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24The Idea of a Political Liberalism: Essays on RawlsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, just treatment of dissident minorities, the constitutional implications of liberalism, international relations, and the structure of international law. The first comprehensive study of …Read more
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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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21The View From Princeton: American Perspectives on Environmental ValuesEnvironmental Values 15 (3): 273-276. 2006.
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21Reflecting on Nature introduces readers to the fields of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, offering both classic and current readings that focus on key themes - images of nature, ethics, justice, animals, food, climate, biodiversity, aesthetics and wilderness. It helps students to focus on fundamental issues within environmental philosophy and offers succinct readings that explore the central tensions and problems within environmental philosophy
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20Ethics, Public Policy, and Global WarmingScience, Technology and Human Values 17 (2): 139-153. 1992.There are many uncertainties concerning climate change, but a rough international consensus has emerged that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from its pre-industrial baseline is likely to lead to a 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the earth's mean surface temperature by the middle of the next century. Such a warming would have diverse impacts on human activities and would likely be catastrophic for many plants and nonhuman animals. The author's contention is that the problems engendered…Read more
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19Teaching ethics in science and engineering: Animals in researchScience and Engineering Ethics 1 (2): 185-186. 1995.
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18Ethics and the study of carnivores: Doing science while respecting animalsIn Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues: Reflections on Redecorating Nature, Temple University Press. pp. 232-261. 2006.The human relationship to nature is a deeply ambiguous one. Human animals are both a part of nature and distinct from it. They are part of nature in the sense that, like other forms of life, they were brought into existence by natural processes, and, like other forms of life, they are dependent on their environment for survival and success. Yet humans are also reflective animals with sophisticated cultural systems. Because of their immense power and their ability to wield it intentionally, human…Read more
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17What do animals think?In Robert W. Lurz (ed.), The Philosophy of Animal Minds, Cambridge University Press. pp. 15--34. 2009.
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16Readings in Animal Cognition (edited book)MIT Press. 1996.Table of Contents Perspectives on Animal Cognition Chapter 1 The Myth of Anthropomorphism John Andrew Fisher Chapter 2 Gendered Knowledge? Examining Influences on Scientific and Ethological Inquiries Lori Gruen Chapter 3 Interpretive Cognitive Ethology Hugh Wilder Chapter 4 Concept Attribution in Nonhuman Animals: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Ascribing Complex Mental Processes Colin Allen and Marc Hauser Cognitive and Evolutionary Explanations Chapter 5 On Aims and Methods of Cogni…Read more
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16V*—Science, Knowledge, and Animal MindsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98 (1): 79-102. 1998.Dale Jamieson; V*—Science, Knowledge, and Animal Minds, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 98, Issue 1, 1 June 1998, Pages 79–102, https://doi.org/
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16Constructing practical ethicsIn 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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12Le sfide morali e politiche del cambiamento climaticoSocietà Degli Individui 39 35-43. 2010.Il cambiamento climatico globale pone sfide senza precedenti ai nostri modi di concepire la morale e la politica. Siamo abituati a vedere un problema morale in situazioni in cui un individuo chiaramente identificabile intenzionalmente ne danneggi un altro, a sua volta chiaramente identificabile; e in cui sia gli individui coinvolti, sia il danno in questione, stiano tra loro in una relazione spazio-temporale di vicinanza. Il cambiamento climatico globale danneggerÀ senz'altro milioni di persone,…Read more
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1210 zoos revisitedIn Timothy D. J. Chappell & Sophie Grace Chappell (eds.), Philosophy of the Environment, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 180-192. 2020.
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11Rational Egoism and Animal RightsEnvironmental Ethics 3 (2): 167-171. 1981.Jan Narveson has 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.”
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New York UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)