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111Rethinking “Greening of Hate”: Climate Emissions, Immigration, and the Last FrontierEthics and the Environment 17 (2): 51-74. 2012.There has been a recent resurgence of what Betsy Hartmann dubbed “the greening of hate” (blaming immigrants for environmental issues in the US). When immigrants move to the U.S., the argument goes, their CO2 emissions increase, thereby making climate change worse. Using migration from the Lower 48 to Alaska as a model, I illustrate how this anti-immigration argument has more traction than it is generally given credit for, and might be more convincing in a different situation. Nonetheless, it is …Read more
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453Climate Change and Structural EmissionsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (2): 201-213. 2011.Given that mitigating climate change is a large-scale global issue, what obligations do individuals have to lower their personal carbon emissions? I survey recent suggestions by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Dale Jamieson and offer models for thinking about their respective approaches. I then present a third model based on the notion of structural violence. While the three models are not mutually incompatible, each one suggests a different focus for mitigating climate change. In the end, I agree …Read more
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150Leave only Footprints? Reframing Climate Change, Environmental Stewardship, and Human ImpactEthics, Policy and Environment 20 (1): 84-102. 2017.Cheryl Hall has argued that framing of climate change must acknowledge the sacrifices needed to reach a sustainable future. This paper builds on that argument. Although it is important to acknowledge the value of what must be sacrificed, this paper argues that current frames about the environment falsely portray humans and the environment as in a zero-sum game, and in doing so ask people to give up the wrong things. This could undermine the public’s trust in environmentalism, and might even crea…Read more
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182Reichenbach Falls—And Rises? Reconstructing the Discovery/Justification DistinctionInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (2): 151-176. 2017.ABSTRACTThe distinction between ‘context of discovery’ and ‘context of justification’ in philosophy of science appears simple at first but contains interesting complexities. Paul Hoyningen-Huene has catalogued some of these complexities and suggested that the core usefulness of the ‘context distinction’ is in distinguishing between descriptive and normative perspectives. Here, I expand on Hoyningen-Huene’s project by tracing the label ‘context of discovery and context of justification’ to its or…Read more
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15Popper's Critical Rationalism: A Philosophical InvestigationInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 26 (2): 223-225. 2012.
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6The context distinction: controversies over feminist philosophy of scienceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (3): 373-392. 2011.The “context of discovery” and “context of justification” distinction has been used by Noretta Koertge and Lynn Hankinson Nelson in debates over the legitimacy of feminist approaches to philosophy of science. Koertge uses the context distinction to focus the conversation by barring certain approaches. I contend this focus masks points of true disagreement about the nature of justification. Nonetheless, Koertge raises important questions that have been too quickly set aside by some. I conclude th…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Environmental Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Biomedical Ethics |