Dale Jamieson
Biographic Data
| ID | 158526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dale Jamieson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamieson |
| SIGNATURE | JAMIESON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9991-8476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Zenchiku’s Mekari
Konparu Zenchiku (1405–c. 1470) was the son-in-law of Zeami Motokiyo. Zeami is the most famous nō actor–writer–composer–showman–impressario, but Zenchiku brought nō back from the shōgun’s court to the temples, effectively resacralising the art form for a troubled, violent age. This paper asks whether Zenchiku’s approach to theatre has anything to teach us as contemporary creators and audiences in our own unstable era and, simultaneously, whether …
Danielle Celermajer. Summertime
Moellendorf on Hope, Poverty, and Climate Change
Spirit of Place
Zeami Motokiyo was one of nō’s most important theorists and practitioners, and mugen nō one of his most sophisticated innovations. Using the play Tōru as a model, this article explores how Zeami’s nō utilised waka theory and Buddhist aesthetics that were current in his time. I will particularly focus on his use of utamakura, a poetic device of intertextual allusion via place names. In the second part of the article I will analyse Tōru’s text and …
Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior
Fellow Creatures
Over the last several decades, Christine Korsgaard has produced a tightly woven body of moral philosophy that incorporates strands from philosophy of mind and history of philosophy as well. Fellow Creatures deepens and extends this body of work and also provides an overview of her previous work. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Korsgaard's philosophy or anyone who is concerned about the ethics of our treatment of animals.Fe…
An appeal to cost undermines food security risks of delayed mitigation
Icelandic Kami
Utamakura is a traditional Japanese technique of recognizing, interpreting, and utilizing the web of intertextual meanings which have accrued around particular place names over centuries of poetic practice. In general, these utamakura places were originally (in the 7th-9th centuries) associated with Shintō gods (kami), though in later periods the web of meanings in most cases came to include (and often became dominated by) secular rather than spi…
The US Response to Covid-19 and Climate Change Endangers the Country and the World
Rights, Justice, and Duties to Provide Assistance
This chapter presents an overview of Tom Regan's theory, and then it critically examines two areas in which it is most problematic: its account of our duties to render assistance and its principles for overriding rights. It argues that Regan's theory has serious problems and that the most plausible revisions would lead Regan back in the direction of utilitarianism. Regan believes that in some circumstances we are permitted or required to override…
Love in the Anthropocene
Theology and Politics in Laudato Si
Pope Francis has more epistemological and moral authority than any scientist, philosopher, lawyer, or politician. He has the second most popular twitter feed, and his messages are more likely to be retweeted than anyone else's. The Pope has the power to order some and to persuade others. Most of all he has the power to affect the global agenda. When the Pope speaks, people listen.Pope Francis commands respect for many reasons. He sits atop a hier…
Respecter la nature
Notre condition présente est caractérisée à la fois par notre pouvoir technologique démesuré sur la nature et par notre impuissance à prendre des mesures face au changement climatique. Pour restaurer notre capacité d'agir, il nous faut une éthique écologique, dont la vertu principale est le respect envers la nature
Two Cheers for Climate Justice
In recent years talk of climate justice has taken off. Yet there are different ways of viewing climate justice. It can be seen as a set of ideas about which there can be competing conceptions (in this respect it is similar to global justice, distributive justice and so on), or it can be viewed as a social movement. In this essay I mainly discuss climate justice as a conception of justice, and conclude that it is not entirely clear what it is supp…
Reason in a Dark Time
We are stuck with climate change. This book is about what it is, why we are stuck with it, what we can learn from our failures, and how we can go on from here. Climate change is not a problem that conforms to our traditional models of individual morality and global justice. Indeed, it is not a single problem but a cluster of challenges. We will have to abandon the Promethean dream of a certain, decisive solution and instead engage with the messy …
The Nature of the Problem
Climate Ethics
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of …
Progressive Consequentialism
Consequentialism is the family of theories that holds that acts are morally right, wrong, or indifferent in virtue of their consequences. Less formally and more intuitively, right acts are those that produce good consequences. A consequentialist theory includes at least the following three elements: an account of the properties or states in virtue of which consequences make actions right, wrong, or indifferent; a deontic principle which specifies…
Ethics and the Environment
What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this important question, focussing primarily on ethics but also encompassing questions in aesthetics and political philosophy. Topics discussed include the environment as an ethical question, human morality, meta-ethics, normative ethics, humans and other animals, the value of nature, and nature's future. The di…
The Philosophers' Symposium on Climate Change
Ethics and the Environment
The Future of Environmental Philosophy
Whither Environmental Philosophy
Whither Environmental Philosophy? Dale Jamieson By most reasonable standards, environmental philosophy has been an enormous success since its beginnings in the 1970s. Courses in the subject are now taught around the world, there are many opportunities for publishing, there are two dedicated graduate programs, and there are even some jobs in the field. Yet these marks of success mask some problems. Environmental philosophy is fragmented along many…
When Utilitarians Should Be Virtue Theorists
The contrast typically made between utilitarianism and virtue theory is overdrawn. Utilitarianism is a universal emulator: it implies that we should lie, cheat, steal, even appropriate Aristotle, when that is what brings about the best outcomes. In some cases and in some worlds it is best for us to focus as precisely as possible on individual acts. In other cases and worlds it is best for us to be concerned with character traits. Global environme…
Marketing androgyny
The trend in popular culture away from idealising mature, strong 'men' in favour of young, androgynous 'boys' can in part be traced to how pop music impresarios such as Lou Pearlman present sexuality to their huge market of young listeners. During their time under the management of Wright Stuff, 1996-1998, the Backstreet Boys were the most popular manufactured boyband in the world, and as such influenced the sexual development of millions of youn…
When Utilitarians Should Be Virtue Theorists
The contrast typically made between utilitarianism and virtue theory is overdrawn. Utilitarianism is a universal emulator: it implies that we should lie, cheat, steal, even appropriate Aristotle, when that is what brings about the best outcomes. In some cases and in some worlds it is best for us to focus as precisely as possible on individual acts. In other cases and worlds it is best for us to be concerned with character traits. Global environme…
The social construction of acid rain
Scientific Uncertainty and the Political Process
In this article, a notion of scientific uncertainty is sketched that is in many ways different from the prevailing view. Scientific uncertainty is not simply an objective value that can be reduced by science alone. Rather, scientific uncertainty is constructed both by science and by society in order to serve certain purposes. Recognizing the social role of scientific uncertainty will help us to see how many of our problems about risk are deeply c…
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
There are many uncertainties concerning climate change, but a rough international consensus has emerged that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from its pre-industrial baseline is likely to lead to a 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the earth's mean surface temperature by the middle of the next century. Such a warming would have diverse impacts on human activities and would likely be catastrophic for many plants and nonhuman animals. The a…
Marketing androgyny
The trend in popular culture away from idealising mature, strong 'men' in favour of young, androgynous 'boys' can in part be traced to how pop music impresarios such as Lou Pearlman present sexuality to their huge market of young listeners. During their time under the management of Wright Stuff, 1996-1998, the Backstreet Boys were the most popular manufactured boyband in the world, and as such influenced the sexual development of millions of youn…
Love in the Anthropocene
Is There Progress in Morality
My question, which is central to the business of moral philosophy, is implicitly addressed by many philosophers, yet explicitly addressed by only a few. In this paper I address the question head-on, and propose a qualified affirmative answer. First, however, it is important to be clear about what is meant by ‘morality’ and ‘progress’, and what the meaning of ‘is’ is. My characterizations will not be exact, but I hope they will be precise enough t…
The epistemology of climate change
This paper surveys several aspects of the climate change issue with a view to identifying some morals for resource managers. It discusses problems with defining and identifying climate change, assessing its impacts, and motivating policy responses. The conclusion is that climate change is likely to occur, but our institutions are unlikely to respond successfully to its effects
Progressive Consequentialism
Consequentialism is the family of theories that holds that acts are morally right, wrong, or indifferent in virtue of their consequences. Less formally and more intuitively, right acts are those that produce good consequences. A consequentialist theory includes at least the following three elements: an account of the properties or states in virtue of which consequences make actions right, wrong, or indifferent; a deontic principle which specifies…
Ozone discourses
Theology and Politics in Laudato Si
Pope Francis has more epistemological and moral authority than any scientist, philosopher, lawyer, or politician. He has the second most popular twitter feed, and his messages are more likely to be retweeted than anyone else's. The Pope has the power to order some and to persuade others. Most of all he has the power to affect the global agenda. When the Pope speaks, people listen.Pope Francis commands respect for many reasons. He sits atop a hier…
Two Cheers for Climate Justice
In recent years talk of climate justice has taken off. Yet there are different ways of viewing climate justice. It can be seen as a set of ideas about which there can be competing conceptions (in this respect it is similar to global justice, distributive justice and so on), or it can be viewed as a social movement. In this essay I mainly discuss climate justice as a conception of justice, and conclude that it is not entirely clear what it is supp…
The Nature of the Problem
The Precautionary Principle and Electric and Magnetic Fields
Current environmental regulation represents a paternalistic policy, more concerned to avoid false positives than false negatives, limiting opportunities for individuals to make choices between risk-avoidance and risk-taking alternatives. For example, many exposures to magnetic fields could be reduced at little or no cost but are not considered seriously, owing to the uncertainty of risk and the concern to avoid false positives. Even though precau…
Sport Hunting as an Instinct
Animals as a Minority
Semantics and the Number of English Sentences
How many English sentences are there? Infinitely many has long been the answer in the catechisms of the orthodox. And not without reason. 'This is the cat that caught the rat.' is an English sentence. So is 'This is the cat that caught the rat that stole the cheese.'. This is the cat with white paws that caught the rat that stole the cheese.' is unobjectionable as well. Since a clear cutoff point cannot be specified, it is tempting to resort to t…
Rational Egoism and Animal Rights
Animals as a Minority
Ross on the possibility of moral theory
The Morality of Species
The epistemology of climate change
This paper surveys several aspects of the climate change issue with a view to identifying some morals for resource managers. It discusses problems with defining and identifying climate change, assessing its impacts, and motivating policy responses. The conclusion is that climate change is likely to occur, but our institutions are unlikely to respond successfully to its effects
Sport Hunting as an Instinct
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
There are many uncertainties concerning climate change, but a rough international consensus has emerged that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from its pre-industrial baseline is likely to lead to a 2.5 degree centigrade increase in the earth's mean surface temperature by the middle of the next century. Such a warming would have diverse impacts on human activities and would likely be catastrophic for many plants and nonhuman animals. The a…
The social construction of acid rain
Equal Justice
Ethics and intentional climate change
Ozone discourses
Greening public policy
Greening Environmental Policy: The Politics of a Sustainable Future, edited by Frank Fischer and Michael Black. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 240 pages, $19.95
Counting the Cost of Global Warming
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Counting the Cost of Global Warming. By John Broome. (Cambridge: White Horse Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 147. Price £24.95.) Dale Jamieson Dale Jamieson University of Colorado at Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 183, April 1996, Pages 263–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956401 Published: 01 April 1996
Scientific Uncertainty and the Political Process
In this article, a notion of scientific uncertainty is sketched that is in many ways different from the prevailing view. Scientific uncertainty is not simply an objective value that can be reduced by science alone. Rather, scientific uncertainty is constructed both by science and by society in order to serve certain purposes. Recognizing the social role of scientific uncertainty will help us to see how many of our problems about risk are deeply c…
Sustainability and beyond
A Companion to Environmental Philosophy
"A Companion to Environmental Philosophy is a work in the field of environmental philosophy. This groun volume contains 36 original articles exemplifying the diversity of scholarship in this field."--BOOK JACKET
The Precautionary Principle and Electric and Magnetic Fields
Current environmental regulation represents a paternalistic policy, more concerned to avoid false positives than false negatives, limiting opportunities for individuals to make choices between risk-avoidance and risk-taking alternatives. For example, many exposures to magnetic fields could be reduced at little or no cost but are not considered seriously, owing to the uncertainty of risk and the concern to avoid false positives. Even though precau…
Morality’s Progress
Morality's Progress is the summation of nearly three decades of work by a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. The twenty-two papers here are invigoratingly diverse, but together tell a unified story about various aspects of the morality of our relationships to animals and to nature. Jamieson's direct and accessible essays will convince sceptics that thinking about these relations offers great intellectual reward, and his work he…
Sober and Wilson on Psychological Altruism
Is There Progress in Morality
My question, which is central to the business of moral philosophy, is implicitly addressed by many philosophers, yet explicitly addressed by only a few. In this paper I address the question head-on, and propose a qualified affirmative answer. First, however, it is important to be clear about what is meant by ‘morality’ and ‘progress’, and what the meaning of ‘is’ is. My characterizations will not be exact, but I hope they will be precise enough t…
A Companion to Environmental Philosophy
Duties to the Distant
Cuándo deberían los utilitaristas ser teóricos de la virtud
El contraste que habitualmente se establece entre el Utilitarismo y la teoría de la virtud queda en entredicho en este ensayo. El Utilitarismo puede encamar cualquier conducta, ya que implica que deberíamos mentir, engañar, robar y aun apropiamos de Aristóteles, si con ello vamos a ocasionar los mejores resultados. En algunas situaciones y en algunos mundos posibles, lo mejor se obtendría centrándonos en los rasgos de carácter. El Cambio Medioamb…
The Future of Environmental Philosophy
Philosophy (30 works) · Political science (23 works) · Environmental ethics (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (11 works)