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    Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
    with Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Gloria Grand-Pierre, and Aja Watkins
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.
    In both scientific and popular circles it is often said that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. Although the urgency of our present environmental crises is not in doubt, such claims of a present mass extinction are highly controversial scientifically. Our aims are, first, to get to the bottom of this scientific debate by shedding philosophical light on the many conceptual and methodological challenges involved in answering this scientific question, and, second, to offer new philosop…Read more