Join us for our Series on the Ethics of Climate Change
Two book discussions and a public lecture by one of the authors.
Book Discussion: Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Edited by Stephen M.
Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, and Henry Shue. 2010. Oxford University
Press.
Four chapters from the book will be selected for discussion on October 26 and
November 2. Discussion will be led by Dr. John Nolt, Professor of Philosophy
and Dr. Joanne Logan, Environmental Climatologist and Professor of Biosystems
Engineering and Soil Science.
The book can be purchased at http://www.oup.com/us/?view=usa
The four chapters are available to members of the UT Campus through the
Baker Center Blackboard site. Go to Community tab then organization and
search Baker.
A limited number of copies of the four chapters are available on request and
were made available by permission of Oxford University Press. Contact Amy
Gibson at [log in to unmask] to request a copy.
October 26:
"Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions, " by Henry Shue.
"Adaptation, Mitigation and Justice," by Dale Jamieson
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Toyota Auditorium
November 2
"Perfect Moral Storm," by Stephen Gardiner
"It's Not My Fault," by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong's
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Toyota Auditorium
Public Lecture:
Stephen Gardiner, 'Climate Policy in A Perfect Moral Storm'
November 8
7:00 PM
Toyota Auditorium
Available by webcast: http://tinyurl.com/27cwbt4
Dr. Stephen M. Gardiner is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Philosophy and the Program on Values in Society at the University of
Washington, Seattle. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and
environmental ethics. He also has interests in ancient philosophy, bioethics,
and the philosophy of economics. He received his PhD. in Philosophy from
Cornell University in 1999 for a dissertation on Aristotelian virtue ethics,
supervised by Terence Irwin. He also has an M.A. from the University of
Colorado at Boulder, and a B.A. from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics.
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