Matthew J McGrath
Biographic Data
| ID | 6819842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J McGrath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | McGrath |
| SIGNATURE | MCGRATH M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3431-8466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
We have positive epistemic duties
Morality regularly asks positive things of us. If a Roman Emperor could save a gladiator's life by giving a thumbs up, he morally should do that. We could call this a simple positive moral duty, insofar as there is a particular action the Emperor morally should perform.1 We often have non-simple positive moral duties as well. If someone stops breathing and I am the only person around, I should call 911, start applying CPR, and wait for instructio…
Global Carbon Budget 2022
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodologies toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertaintie…
Epistemic Norms for Waiting (and Suspension)
Although belief formation is sometimes automatic, there are occasions in which we have the power to put it off, to wait on belief-formation. Waiting in this sense seems assessable by epistemic norms. This paper explores what form such norms might take: the nature and their content. A key question is how these norms relate to epistemic norms on belief-formation: could we have cases in which one ought to believe that p but also ought to wait on for…
Biofuel burning and human respiration bias on satellite estimates of fossil fuel CO 2 emissions
The satellites that have been designed to support the monitoring of fossil fuel CO 2 emissions aim to systematically measure atmospheric CO 2 plumes generated by intense emissions from large cities, power plants and industrial sites. These data can be assimilated into atmospheric transport models in order to estimate the corresponding emissions. However, plumes emitted by cities and powerplants contain not only fossil fuel CO 2 but also significa…
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Biofuel burning and human respiration bias on satellite estimates of fossil fuel CO 2 emissions
The satellites that have been designed to support the monitoring of fossil fuel CO 2 emissions aim to systematically measure atmospheric CO 2 plumes generated by intense emissions from large cities, power plants and industrial sites. These data can be assimilated into atmospheric transport models in order to estimate the corresponding emissions. However, plumes emitted by cities and powerplants contain not only fossil fuel CO 2 but also significa…
Epistemic Norms for Waiting (and Suspension)
Although belief formation is sometimes automatic, there are occasions in which we have the power to put it off, to wait on belief-formation. Waiting in this sense seems assessable by epistemic norms. This paper explores what form such norms might take: the nature and their content. A key question is how these norms relate to epistemic norms on belief-formation: could we have cases in which one ought to believe that p but also ought to wait on for…
Global Carbon Budget 2022
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andtheir redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biospherein a changing climate is critical to better understand the global carboncycle, support the development of climate policies, and project futureclimate change. Here we describe and synthesize data sets and methodologies toquantify the five major components of the global carbon budget and theiruncertaintie…
We have positive epistemic duties
Morality regularly asks positive things of us. If a Roman Emperor could save a gladiator's life by giving a thumbs up, he morally should do that. We could call this a simple positive moral duty, insofar as there is a particular action the Emperor morally should perform.1 We often have non-simple positive moral duties as well. If someone stops breathing and I am the only person around, I should call 911, start applying CPR, and wait for instructio…
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 works) · Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (2 works) · Atmospheric sciences (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Biofuel (1 work) · Biogeochemistry (1 work)