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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)