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.
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
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 four chapters are available two ways:
Members of the UT Campus can access chapters through the Baker Center
Blackboard site. Go to Community tab then organization and search Baker.
General Public can request copies made available by permission of Oxford
University Press by contacting Amy Gibson at [log in to unmask]
November 8
Stephen Gardiner
Climate Policy in A Perfect Moral Storm
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.
Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-3816 (o)
865-363-9605 (m)
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