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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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51Robert A. Hinde, Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality , pp. xiv + 241Utilitas 18 (2): 196. 2006.
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130Slavery, Carbon, and Moral ProgressEthical 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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63On aims and methods of cognitive ethologyPhilosophy 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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593Climate Change, Responsibility, and JusticeScience 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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240Progressive consequentialismPhilosophical 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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31Language, mind, and art: essays in appreciation and analysis in honor of Paul Ziff (edited book)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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43Global Environmental JusticeRoyal 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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21The View From Princeton: American Perspectives on Environmental ValuesEnvironmental Values 15 (3): 273-276. 2006.
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67Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy (edited book)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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70:Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary ExplanationEthics 110 (2): 436-437. 2000.Excerpt from: Hull, D. L.. Review: Anthony O'Hear, Beyond Evolution:\nHuman Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation. Oxford:\nClarendon Press. 1997. cloth 19.99. British Journal for the Philosophy\nof Science, 49, 511-14
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54From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and pol…Read more
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2Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals and the Rest of NatureEnvironmental Values 13 (2): 261-263. 2004.
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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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31Afterward: Ethics and the study of animal cognitionIn Dale Jamieson & Marc Bekoff (eds.), Readings in Animal Cognition, Mit Press. pp. 359--71. 1996.
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The Real Environment Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One EnemyEthics and International Affairs 18 (1). 2004.Rather than squandering our resources on such questionable endeavors as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should lift up poor people in the developing world. This is an important message that many Americans need to hear
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142Science, knowledge, and animal mindsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98 (1). 1998.In recent years both philosophers and scientists have been sceptical about the existence of animal minds. This is in distinction to Hume who claimed that '...no truth appears to me more evident, than that beasts are endow'd with thought and reason as well as men'. I argue that Hume is correct about the epistemological salience of our ordinary practices of ascribing mental states to animals. The reluctance of contemporary philosophers and scientists to embrace the view that animals have minds is …Read more
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26Beyond monkey minds: Toward a richer cognitive ethologyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (3): 571-572. 1994.
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10Cuándo deberían los utilitaristas ser teóricos de la virtudIsegoría 32. 2005.El contraste que habitualmente se establece entre el Utilitarismo y la teoría de la virtud queda en entredicho en este ensayo. El Utilitarismo puede encamar cualquier conducta, ya que implica que deberíamos mentir, engañar, robar y aun apropiamos de Aristóteles, si con ello vamos a ocasionar los mejores resultados. En algunas situaciones y en algunos mundos posibles, lo mejor se obtendría centrándonos en los rasgos de carácter. El Cambio Medioambiental Global nos lleva al estudio de los caracter…Read more
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New York UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)