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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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135Responsibility 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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10Rational 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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208Animal 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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590Climate 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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238Progressive 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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29Language, 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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20The 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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New York UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Animal Studies Initiative, Environmental Studies ProgramOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)