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The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
Academic
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Sioux City
Iowa
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If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.
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Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's non-ideal theory).
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Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.
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In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not evolve in order to do. This doesn't mean that it can't be done or that we shouldn't try to expand the reach of our ethical frameworks, only that there are reasons to be skeptical about its success.
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Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.
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The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create them during the negotiations (much less do they receive orders from the international community and then go home and implement them).
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The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.
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We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.
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Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
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Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.
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The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.
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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.
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Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.
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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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I'm a subjectivist about morality.
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Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the most important philosophical challenges of our time.
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The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.
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Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.
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Most process philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with deep time. Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.
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Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as reduce suffering) and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.
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