James Mcfarland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3852948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Mcfarland |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcfarland |
| SIGNATURE | MCFARLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Environmental Protection Agency |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seizing the policy opportunities for health- and equity-improving energy decisions
Power sector impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is regarded as the most prominent piece of federal climate legislation in the U.S. thus far. This paper investigates potential impacts of IRA on the power sector, which is the focus of many core IRA provisions. We summarize a multi-model comparison of IRA to identify robust findings and variation in power sector investments, emissions, and costs across 11 models of the U.S. energy system and electricity sector. O…
The path to 1.5 °C requires ratcheting of climate pledges
Ratcheting of climate pledges needed to limit peak global warming
The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms
Left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) has a controversial history in psychology. Some researchers have expressed skepticism about the existence of LWA, whereas others have argued that LWA is a valid construct. In the present article, we offer a framework to reconcile these two perspectives by proposing that ideologically based authoritarian norms are sometimes in conflict with the processes that create authoritarian individuals. In Western political c…
Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History
When There's No More Room in Hell, Should We Read Stanley Cavell
James McFarland, When There's No More Room in Hell, Should We Read Stanley Cavell?, Discourse, Vol. 42, No. 1-2, Cinema, Modernism, and the Perplexing Methods of Stanley Cavell (Winter/Spring 2020), pp. 140-172
When Beliefs Lead to (Im)Moral Action: How Believing in Torture's Effectiveness Shapes the Endorsement of Its Use
Does believing in torture's effectiveness shape the endorsements of its use? Using a multimethod approach across six studies, we provide converging evidence that efficacy beliefs can help increase understanding of individual differences and situational influences on torture support. Studies 1a and 1b found that torture opinions contained more efficacy‐based language than other types of harm and that people relied more on torture efficacy than tor…
Evaluating the effects of climate change on US agricultural systems: Sensitivity to regional impact and trade expansion scenarios
Agriculture is one of the sectors that is expected to be most significantly impacted by climate change. There has been considerable interest in assessing these impacts and many recent studies investigating agricultural impacts for individual countries and regions using an array of models. However, the great majority of existing studies explore impacts on a country or region of interest without explicitly accounting for impacts on the rest of the …
Political Contamination of Social Psychology: A Review of Crawford and Jussim’s (2017) Edited Book on The Politics of Social Psychology
Assessing climate change impacts, benefits of mitigation, and uncertainties on major global forest regions under multiple socioeconomic and emissions scenarios
We analyze a set of simulations to assess the impact of climate change on global forests where MC2 dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) was run with climate simulations from the MIT Integrated Global System Model-Community Atmosphere Model (IGSM-CAM) modeling framework. The core study relies on an ensemble of climate simulations under two emissions scenarios: a business-as-usual reference scenario (REF) analogous to the IPCC RCP8.5 scenario, an…
Focus on agriculture and forestry benefits of reducing climate change impacts
Can Paris pledges avert severe climate change?
Reducing risks of severe outcomes and improving chances of limiting warming to 2°C
The contribution of Paris to limit global warming to 2 °C
The international community has set a goal to limit global warming to 2 °C. Limiting global warming to 2 °C is a challenging goal and will entail a dramatic transformation of the global energy system, largely complete by 2040. As part of the work toward this goal, countries have been submitting their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, indicating their emissions reduct…
Climate change impacts on US agriculture and forestry: Benefits of global climate stabilization
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, higher temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and other climate change impacts have already begun to affect US agriculture and forestry, with impacts expected to become more substantial in the future. There have been numerous studies of climate change impacts on agriculture or forestry, but relatively little research examining the long-term net impacts of a stabilization scenario relative to a …
Philosophy of the Living Dead: At the Origin of the Zombie-Image
Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History
One-Way Street: Childhood and Improvisation at the Close of the Book
Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street emerges from a profoundly subversive orientation in his thought. It is the application in the present of a skeptical posture toward the European cultural legacy, a skeptical posture typical of Benjamin in his relation to the university institution. The proximity of One-Way Street to disruptions in the processes securing cultural transmission appears in the transformation of the book's relation to Gershom Scholem a…
Setting the Stage: An Introduction to One-Way Street
Walter Benjamin did not publish many books in his relatively short life, but in 1928 he published two, within weeks of each other: The Origin of German Trauerspiel and One-Way Street. While the former has been the object of many incisive interpretations, its fraternal twin—an avant-garde experiment assembled from sixty fragmentary and unorthodox texts, including everything from satirical lists to dream protocols to descriptions of children's beha…
Sailing by the Stars: Constellations in the Space of Thought
Sailing by the Stars:Constellations in the Space of Thought James McFarland (bio) Auch die sternische Verbindung trügt.Doch uns freue eine Weile nunder Figur zu glauben. Das genügt. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus, XI. I. In a footnote to his early essay "Force and Signification" from 1963, Jacques Derrida considered the contemporary vogue for the notion of "structure" in the following terms. "In order to assess the deep necessity that un…
Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann's Californian Exile
Research Article| February 01 2007 Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann's Californian Exile James McFarland James McFarland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 111–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-020 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity
"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jew…
When Beliefs Lead to (Im)Moral Action: How Believing in Torture's Effectiveness Shapes the Endorsement of Its Use
Does believing in torture's effectiveness shape the endorsements of its use? Using a multimethod approach across six studies, we provide converging evidence that efficacy beliefs can help increase understanding of individual differences and situational influences on torture support. Studies 1a and 1b found that torture opinions contained more efficacy‐based language than other types of harm and that people relied more on torture efficacy than tor…
Philosophy of the Living Dead: At the Origin of the Zombie-Image
One-Way Street: Childhood and Improvisation at the Close of the Book
Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street emerges from a profoundly subversive orientation in his thought. It is the application in the present of a skeptical posture toward the European cultural legacy, a skeptical posture typical of Benjamin in his relation to the university institution. The proximity of One-Way Street to disruptions in the processes securing cultural transmission appears in the transformation of the book's relation to Gershom Scholem a…
Sailing by the Stars: Constellations in the Space of Thought
Sailing by the Stars:Constellations in the Space of Thought James McFarland (bio) Auch die sternische Verbindung trügt.Doch uns freue eine Weile nunder Figur zu glauben. Das genügt. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus, XI. I. In a footnote to his early essay "Force and Signification" from 1963, Jacques Derrida considered the contemporary vogue for the notion of "structure" in the following terms. "In order to assess the deep necessity that un…
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity
"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jew…
Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann's Californian Exile
Research Article| February 01 2007 Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann's Californian Exile James McFarland James McFarland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 111–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-020 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
Sailing by the Stars: Constellations in the Space of Thought
Sailing by the Stars:Constellations in the Space of Thought James McFarland (bio) Auch die sternische Verbindung trügt.Doch uns freue eine Weile nunder Figur zu glauben. Das genügt. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus, XI. I. In a footnote to his early essay "Force and Signification" from 1963, Jacques Derrida considered the contemporary vogue for the notion of "structure" in the following terms. "In order to assess the deep necessity that un…
Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History
One-Way Street: Childhood and Improvisation at the Close of the Book
Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street emerges from a profoundly subversive orientation in his thought. It is the application in the present of a skeptical posture toward the European cultural legacy, a skeptical posture typical of Benjamin in his relation to the university institution. The proximity of One-Way Street to disruptions in the processes securing cultural transmission appears in the transformation of the book's relation to Gershom Scholem a…
Setting the Stage: An Introduction to One-Way Street
Walter Benjamin did not publish many books in his relatively short life, but in 1928 he published two, within weeks of each other: The Origin of German Trauerspiel and One-Way Street. While the former has been the object of many incisive interpretations, its fraternal twin—an avant-garde experiment assembled from sixty fragmentary and unorthodox texts, including everything from satirical lists to dream protocols to descriptions of children's beha…
Can Paris pledges avert severe climate change?
Reducing risks of severe outcomes and improving chances of limiting warming to 2°C
The contribution of Paris to limit global warming to 2 °C
The international community has set a goal to limit global warming to 2 °C. Limiting global warming to 2 °C is a challenging goal and will entail a dramatic transformation of the global energy system, largely complete by 2040. As part of the work toward this goal, countries have been submitting their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, indicating their emissions reduct…
Climate change impacts on US agriculture and forestry: Benefits of global climate stabilization
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, higher temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and other climate change impacts have already begun to affect US agriculture and forestry, with impacts expected to become more substantial in the future. There have been numerous studies of climate change impacts on agriculture or forestry, but relatively little research examining the long-term net impacts of a stabilization scenario relative to a …
Philosophy of the Living Dead: At the Origin of the Zombie-Image
Assessing climate change impacts, benefits of mitigation, and uncertainties on major global forest regions under multiple socioeconomic and emissions scenarios
We analyze a set of simulations to assess the impact of climate change on global forests where MC2 dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) was run with climate simulations from the MIT Integrated Global System Model-Community Atmosphere Model (IGSM-CAM) modeling framework. The core study relies on an ensemble of climate simulations under two emissions scenarios: a business-as-usual reference scenario (REF) analogous to the IPCC RCP8.5 scenario, an…
Focus on agriculture and forestry benefits of reducing climate change impacts
Evaluating the effects of climate change on US agricultural systems: Sensitivity to regional impact and trade expansion scenarios
Agriculture is one of the sectors that is expected to be most significantly impacted by climate change. There has been considerable interest in assessing these impacts and many recent studies investigating agricultural impacts for individual countries and regions using an array of models. However, the great majority of existing studies explore impacts on a country or region of interest without explicitly accounting for impacts on the rest of the …
Political Contamination of Social Psychology: A Review of Crawford and Jussim’s (2017) Edited Book on The Politics of Social Psychology
When Beliefs Lead to (Im)Moral Action: How Believing in Torture's Effectiveness Shapes the Endorsement of Its Use
Does believing in torture's effectiveness shape the endorsements of its use? Using a multimethod approach across six studies, we provide converging evidence that efficacy beliefs can help increase understanding of individual differences and situational influences on torture support. Studies 1a and 1b found that torture opinions contained more efficacy‐based language than other types of harm and that people relied more on torture efficacy than tor…
Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History
When There's No More Room in Hell, Should We Read Stanley Cavell
James McFarland, When There's No More Room in Hell, Should We Read Stanley Cavell?, Discourse, Vol. 42, No. 1-2, Cinema, Modernism, and the Perplexing Methods of Stanley Cavell (Winter/Spring 2020), pp. 140-172
The curious case of left‐wing authoritarianism: When authoritarian persons meet anti‐authoritarian norms
Left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) has a controversial history in psychology. Some researchers have expressed skepticism about the existence of LWA, whereas others have argued that LWA is a valid construct. In the present article, we offer a framework to reconcile these two perspectives by proposing that ideologically based authoritarian norms are sometimes in conflict with the processes that create authoritarian individuals. In Western political c…
The path to 1.5 °C requires ratcheting of climate pledges
Ratcheting of climate pledges needed to limit peak global warming
Power sector impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is regarded as the most prominent piece of federal climate legislation in the U.S. thus far. This paper investigates potential impacts of IRA on the power sector, which is the focus of many core IRA provisions. We summarize a multi-model comparison of IRA to identify robust findings and variation in power sector investments, emissions, and costs across 11 models of the U.S. energy system and electricity sector. O…
Seizing the policy opportunities for health- and equity-improving energy decisions
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