Amanda Askell
Biographic Data
| ID | 9490632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Askell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Askell |
| SIGNATURE | ASKELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting
Many real-world agents recognise that they impose harms by choosing to emit carbon, for example, by flying.Yet many do so anyway, and then attempt to make things right by offsetting those harms.Such offsetters typically believe that, by offsetting, they change the deontic status of their behaviour, making an otherwise impermissible action permissible.Do they succeed in practice?Some philosophers have argued that they do, since their offsets appea…
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The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting
Many real-world agents recognise that they impose harms by choosing to emit carbon, for example, by flying.Yet many do so anyway, and then attempt to make things right by offsetting those harms.Such offsetters typically believe that, by offsetting, they change the deontic status of their behaviour, making an otherwise impermissible action permissible.Do they succeed in practice?Some philosophers have argued that they do, since their offsets appea…
Action (physics) (1 work) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (1 work) · Deontic logic (1 work) · Dilemma (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems (1 work) · Law and economics (1 work) · Moral dilemma (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)