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21Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change
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10Guest Editors' Introduction to the 2022 ISEE Special IssueEnvironmental Ethics 45 (4): 315-318. 2023.
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63Restoration and History in a Changing World: A Case Study in Ethics for the AnthropoceneEthics and the Environment 18 (2): 115-134. 2013.The widely-heralded arrival of the “Anthropocene” era seems to call the existence and value of the natural world into question. Is the world prior to human alteration of it something worth preserving? Can and should we attempt to restore ecological conditions prior to human disturbance? Ecological restoration has traditionally used the past as a reference point in establishing standards and assessing the value of restored landscapes. In many landscapes, however, the traditional notion of histori…Read more
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8Guest Editors' Introduction to the 2021 ISEE Special IssueEnvironmental Ethics 44 (3): 193-194. 2022.
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39Intergenerational Ethics, Moral Ambivalence, and Climate ChangeThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 69-88. 2022.Global climate change raises critical issues of intergenerational ethics. One of these issues involves what Stephen Gardiner calls intergenerational buck-passing (IGBP)—a pattern through which each generation does little to address climate change and instead passes the problem along to the next, progressively amplifying the climate crisis over time. My goal in this paper to explore two key questions: (1) What is at the root of intergenerational buck-passing? and (2) What changes might help to …Read more
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37Intergenerational Ethics, Climate Change, and Moral AmbivalenceThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 69-88. 2022.Global climate change raises critical issues of intergenerational ethics. One of these issues involves what Stephen Gardiner calls intergenerational buck-passing (IGBP)—a pattern through which each generation does little to address climate change and instead passes the problem along to the next, progressively amplifying the climate crisis over time. My goal in this paper to explore two key questions: (1) What is at the root of intergenerational buck-passing? and (2) What changes might help to …Read more
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7The Governance of Solar Geoengineering: Managing Climate Change in the Anthropocene: by Jesse Reynolds, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2019, viii + 267 pp., $89.99 (hardback), $34.99 (paperback), $28.00 (eBook), ISBN 9781107161955 (review)Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (1): 76-79. 2022.Although scientists began to speculate about manipulating solar radiation to influence global climate more than a century ago, sustained discussion of climate engineering in r...
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44Environmental Ethics: The State of the QuestionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 59 (3): 270-308. 2021.The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 270-308, September 2021.
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25Ethics, Adaptation, and the AnthropoceneEthics, Policy and Environment 24 (1): 60-74. 2021.Some proponents of the Anthropocene argue that it is time adopt a future-oriented outlook: natural baselines no longer matter, and humans should remake the planet for the better. This raises questions about whose vision should guide such remaking, and whether the past deserves any consideration in adapting for the future. I argue that the past remains relevant, because the natural, cultural, and social worlds people enter into – shaped by those who came before us – matter. On this view, there ar…Read more
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26Adapting Environmental Ethics to Rapid, Anthropogenic, and Global Ecological ChangeEnvironmental Ethics 42 (2): 99-101. 2020.
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59Geoengineering Justice: The Role of RecognitionScience, Technology, and Human Values 44 (3): 448-477. 2019.Global-scale solar geoengineering raises critical ethical questions, including questions of distributive, procedural, and intergenerational justice. Although geoengineering is sometimes framed as a response to injustice, insofar as it might benefit those most vulnerable to climate-related harms, geoengineering also has the potential to exacerbate climate injustice, especially if control of research, governance, and potential plans for deployment remains concentrated in the hands of a few. The sc…Read more
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9The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 88 107-109. 2020.
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191. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the ZhuangziIn Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 15-33. 2019.
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58Climate Change, Climate Engineering, and the ‘Global Poor’: What Does Justice Require?Ethics, Policy and Environment 21 (3): 270-288. 2018.ABSTRACTIn recent work, Joshua Horton and David Keith argue on distributive and consequentialist grounds that research into solar radiation management geoengineering is justified because the resulting knowledge has the potential to benefit everyone, particularly the ‘global poor.’ I argue that this view overlooks procedural and recognitional justice, and thus relegates to the background questions of how SRM research should be governed. In response to Horton and Keith, I argue for a multidimensio…Read more
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27Stephen Skrimshire, ed., Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination (review)Environmental Ethics 34 (3): 317-320. 2012.
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31Addressing the Harms of Climate Change: Making Sense of Loss and DamageEthics, Policy and Environment 20 (2): 125-128. 2017.In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Impacts are due to observed climate change, irrespective of its cause...
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22Varieties of Non-Anthropocentricism: Duty, Beauty, Knowledge and RealityEnvironmental Values 27 (2): 113-118. 2018.
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15Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture (edited book)Oup Usa. 2015.Restoring Layered Landscapes explores ecological restoration in complex landscapes, where ecosystems intertwine with important sociopolitical meanings.
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52Theories as tools: a pluralistic approach to ecological modelingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (3): 594-601. 2005.
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30Tradition and morality in the analects: A reply to HansenJournal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (4). 2004.
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11Theories as tools: a pluralistic approach to ecological modelingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (3): 594-601. 2005.
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12Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd: Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (review)Philosophy of Science 73 (1): 127-131. 2006.
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297Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical ObligationsEnvironmental Values 19 (4). 2010.Both Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Baylor Johnson hold that under current circumstances, individuals lack obligations to reduce their personal contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. Johnson argues that climate change has the structure of a tragedy of the commons, and that there is no unilateral obligation to reduce emissions in a commons. Against Johnson, I articulate two rationales for an individual obligation to reduce one's greenhouse gas emissions. I first discuss moral integrity, which r…Read more
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41Engagement, withdrawal, and social reform: Confucian and contemporary perspectivesPhilosophy East and West 60 (3): 369-390. 2010.Confucius lived in a society he found morally wanting. The rituals were distorted, the government was corrupt, and the rulers lacked a Heavenly mandate. Our limited historical knowledge makes it difficult today to imagine Confucius' situation in all its rich context and detail; however, we may be able to imagine something like it, at least something like it in certain ways. We can probably imagine living in a state led by officials of questionable integrity, and many of us may feel that we in fa…Read more
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