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349Climate Change and the Ethics of Individual Emissions: A Response to Sinnott-ArmstrongPerspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 4-21. 2012.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues, on the relationship between individual emissions and climate change, that “we cannot claim to know that it is morally wrong to drive a gas guzzler just for fun” or engage in other inessential emissions-producing individual activities. His concern is not uncertainty about the phenomenon of climate change, nor about human contribution to it. Rather, on Sinnott-Armstrong’s analysis the claim of individual moral responsibility for emissions must be grounded in a defe…Read more
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478Relationally Responsive Expert TrustworthinessSocial Epistemology 36 (5): 576-585. 2022.Social epistemologists often operationalize the task of indirectly assessing experts’ trustworthiness to identifying whose beliefs are more reliably true on matters in an area of expertise. Not only does this neglect the philosophically rich space between belief formation and testimonial utterances, it also reduces trustworthiness to reliability. In ethics of trust, by contrast, explicitly relational views of trust include things like good will and responsiveness. One might think that relational…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Applied Ethics |
General Philosophy of Science |