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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.