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Precaution as an invigorating context for scientific input in policy processesIn Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Sofia Guedes Vaz & Sylvia S. Tognetti (eds.), Interfaces between science and society, Greenleaf. 2006.
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3Interfaces between science and society (edited book)Greenleaf. 2006.As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. This book provides a framework and a vision on how to conceive, discuss and evaluate the changes that occur in the relationship between science and society.
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29Justificatory Moral Pluralism in Climate ChangeSATS 23 (1): 75-96. 2022.This paper adopts justificatory moral pluralism – a multilevel framework for justifying the choice by different agents of the most appropriate norms and values to guide their decisions and actions – to climate change. Its main objective is to investigate how ethics may effectively help achieve a better result in deciding how to mitigate, adapt, or compensate by enhancing the moral acceptability of the available policies or actions that are most likely to counter the effects of climate change. JM…Read more
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6The Tragedy of the Commons and LeviathanPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (22): 65-82. 2003.The type of authority needed for a good environmental public policy is discussed. We looked at some authors who saw in Leviathan, a type of authority possibly compatible with a model for environmental policy and to some others who refuted it. The need for a Leviathan, what type of Leviathan and could Hobbes’s arguments be used in environmental policy is then discussed. The tragedy of the commons, a rich metaphor for environmental policy is used as the main drive. This small essay will, even thou…Read more
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26Justificatory Moral Pluralism: A Novel Form of Environmental PragmatismEnvironmental Values 30 (6): 737-758. 2021.Moral reasoning typically informs environmental decision-making by measuring the possible outcomes of policies or actions in light of a preferred ethical theory. This method is subject to many problems. Environmental pragmatism tries to overcome them, but it suffers also from some pitfalls. This paper proposes a new method of environmental pragmatism that avoids the problems of both the traditional method of environmental moral reasoning and of the general versions of environmental pragmatism. W…Read more
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The tragedy of the commons and leviathan. A small insight into environmental political philosophyPhilosophica 22 65-82. 2003.
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16Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle: Science, Evidence, and Environmental Policy (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 30 (1): 95-98. 2016.