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7Gardiner, Caney, Jamieson and Shue, eds. Climate Ethics: Essential Readings, Oxford. (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.A collection of seminal articles in climate ethics and climate justice.
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156Responsibility and Climate ChangeGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 8 (2). 2015.I begin by providing some background to conceptions of responsibility. I note the extent of disagreement in this area, the diverse and cross-cutting distinctions that are deployed, and the relative neglect of some important problems. These facts make it difficult to attribute responsibility for climate change, but so do some features of climate change itself which I go on to illuminate. Attributions of responsibility are often contested sites because such attributions are fundamentally pragmatic…Read more
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12Rational 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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212Animal Liberation is an Environmental EthicEnvironmental Values 7 (1): 41-57. 1998.I begin by briefly tracing the history of the split between environmental ethics and animal liberation, go on to sketch a theory of value that I think is implicit in animal liberation, and explain how this theory is consistent with strong environmental commitments. I conclude with some observations about problems that remain
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61Jack, Jill, and Jane in a Perfect Moral StormPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.download
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Review of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh et al: Language Comprehension in Ape and Child (review)Philosophical Psychology 8 398-399. 1995.
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1Singer and Pratical Ethics MovementIn Dale Jamieson (ed.), Singer and His Critics, Blackwell. pp. 1--17. 1999.
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72Readings in Animal Cognition (edited book)MIT Press. 1996.This collection of 24 readings is the first comprehensive treatment of important topics by leading figures in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of...
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59Klimawandel und globale Gerechtigkeit: Neues Problem, altes Paradigma?In Angela Kallhoff (ed.), Klimagerechtigkeit Und Klimaethik, De Gruyter. pp. 23-38. 2015.
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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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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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29Great 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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19Teaching ethics in science and engineering: Animals in researchScience and Engineering Ethics 1 (2): 185-186. 1995.
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2Ethics and the Environment: An IntroductionCambridge 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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338Singer 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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18Constructing 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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New York UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)