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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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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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Attitudes are changing very quickly.
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In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.
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It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.
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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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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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We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.
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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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Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would want. As a result we're going to have to live with climate change and try to reduce the extent and rate of change as much as possible. This is not an inspiring or sexy project.
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A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the default states, and everything else involves some perturbation. This is a mental model, a conceptual frame, a tacit belief, a presupposition - whatever you want to call it.
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Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of individually negligible emissions of an invisible, odorless gas, by billions of people all over the world.
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The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.
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The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior.
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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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The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.
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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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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 fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.
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I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.
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