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I'm a subjectivist about morality.

Dale Jamieson

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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
Academic
Jurist
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
Morality

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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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Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
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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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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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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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We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.
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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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Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
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It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.
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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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The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.
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Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.
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Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.
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Attitudes are changing very quickly.
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If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate change policies, even when that risks economically disadvantaging them, and other states do not even when it would be in their economic interests to do so.
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Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.
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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.
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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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The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.
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