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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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152Responsibility 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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211Animal 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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4Reflections (1 of 4): Discourse and moral responsibility in biotechnical communicationScience and Engineering Ethics 6 (2): 265-273. 2000.
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8Animal Rights: a Reply to Frey's Animal RightsAnalysis 38. 1978.In his paper, "animal rights" ("analysis" 37.4), R g frey claims to refute "the most important argument" for the view that animals have rights. We show that no prominent defender of the rights of animals has argued, Or should argue, In the way that frey suggests. Furthermore, We show that there is a plausible argument for the view that animals have rights that is left undiscussed by frey
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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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33The importance of being conceptualJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (2): 117-123. 1986.
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53Book Review:Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism. Michael Slote (review)Ethics 98 (1): 168-. 1987.
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84David Lewis on ConventionCanadian Journal of Philosophy 5 (1). 1975.In this paper I show that the definition of convention offered by david lewis in his book "convention: a philosophical study" fails to shed much light on "our common, Established concept of convention." first I set out lewis' definition of convention. I then show, Via counterexample, That satisfaction of lewis' definition is not a necessary condition for something to be a convention. I also show via counterexample that it is doubtful that satisfaction of lewis' definition is a sufficient conditi…Read more
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110Sober and Wilson on psychological altruism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3). 2002.In their marvelous book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Sober and Wilson identify two distinct problems of altruism.’ The problem of Evolutionary Altruism (EA) “is to show how behaviors that benefit others at the expense of self can evolve;” (17) group selection is the key to the solution of this problem. The problem of Psychological Altruism (PA) is to determine whether people “have altruistic desires that are psychologically ultimate.” (201) After carefully c…Read more
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New York UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)