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This volume illustrates the diverse ways that philosophy can contribute to conversations around climate change, and explores the ways in which thinking about climate change can help to illuminate a range of topics of independent interest to philosophers.
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| 520 | |a This volume illustrates the diverse ways that philosophy can contribute to conversations around climate change, and explores the ways in which thinking about climate change can help to illuminate a range of topics of independent interest to philosophers. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Philosophy and Climate Change -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Abstracts of Chapters -- Section I. Valuing Climate Change Impacts -- 1 A Convenient Truth? Climate Change and Quality of Life -- 2 Animals and Climate Change -- 3 Discounting under Risk: Utilitarianism vs. Prioritarianism -- 4 A Philosopher's Guide to Discounting -- 5 Does Climate Change Policy Depend Importantly on Population Ethics? Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy -- Section II. Cognition, Emotions, and Climate Change -- 7 The Wages of Fear? Toward Fearing Well About Climate Change -- 8 Climate Change and Cultural Cognition -- Section III. Climate Change and Individual Ethics -- 9 Climate Change and Individual Obligations: A Dilemma for the Expected Utility Approach, and the Need for an Imperfect View -- 10 The Puzzle of Inefficacy -- 11 On Individual and Shared Obligations: In Defense of the Activist's Perspective -- 12 How Much Harm Does Each of Us Do? -- Section IV. Climate Change and Politics -- 13 How Quickly Should the World Reduce its Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Climate Change and the Structure of Intergenerational Justice -- 14 Political Realism, Feasibility Wedges, and Opportunities for Collective Action on Climate Change -- 15 Pareto Improvements and Feasible Climate Solutions -- 16 Climate Change, Liberalism, and the Public/Private Distinction -- Introduction -- Section I: Valuing Climate Change Impacts -- Chapter 1: A Convenient Truth?: Climate Change and Quality of Life -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature and Measure of Subjective Well-Being -- 3. Subjective Well-Beingand Its Correlates -- 4. Affect as Information and Guidance -- 5. Affect and Subjective Well-Being -- 6. A Recent Critique -- 7. Subjective Well-Beingand Climate -- References. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 2: Animals and Climate Change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Farmed Animals, Climate Change, and a Duty to Resist -- 3. Wild Animals, Climate Change, and a Duty to Assist -- 4. Animals, Climate Change, and a Life Worth Living -- 5. Animals, Climate Change, and a Life Worth Creating -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Discounting under Risk: Utilitarianism vs. Prioritarianism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Choice of the Social Welfare Framework: Utilitarianism vs. Prioritarianism -- 2.1 Risk and Equity: Aggregation Issues -- 2.2 Social Welfare Function -- 3. Implications for Discounting -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.2 Utilitarianism and the Ramsey Rule -- 3.3 Utilitarian Discounting and the Precautionary Effect -- 3.4 Discounting under Alternative Welfare Frameworks -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: A Philosopher's Guide to Discounting -- 1. Introducing and Defending the Ramsey Rule -- 2. Why the Terms of Measurement Matter -- 3. Descriptivism and Prescriptivism in Discounting Methodology -- 4. The Role of Moral Experts in Parameter Assignments -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Does Climate Change Policy Depend Importantly on Population Ethics?: Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Population Axiology and the Repugnant Conclusion -- 3. First Deflationary Response: Axiologies May Agree about Climate Change -- 4. Second Deflationary Response: Bounded Population Principles -- 4.1 Axiology with Population Size Bounds -- 4.2 Possibility Proof for Escaping the Repugnant Conclusion while Satisfying Bounded Versions of Population Ethics Desiderata -- 5. Conclusion -- Appendix: A Smoothness Axiom and a New Argument for Total Utilitarianism -- References -- Section II: Cognition, Emotions, and Climate Change -- Chapter 6: Way to Go, Me -- 1. Introduction. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2. Climate Change as a Creeping Environmental Problem -- 3. Different Orientations -- 4. Switching Between Orientations and Mindset M -- 5. Seeking Self-Praiseversus Avoiding Self-Blame -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Wages of Fear?: Toward Fearing Well About Climate Change -- 1. The Promise of Fear -- 2. The Wages of Fear -- 3. The Possibility of Hope -- 4. The Perils of Hope -- 5. Civic Fear -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Climate Change and Cultural Cognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultural Cognition -- 3. Values or Beliefs? -- 4. Cultural Cognition and Coincidence -- 5. Geoengineering -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Section III: Climate Change and Individual Ethics -- Chapter 9: Climate Change and Individual Obligations: A Dilemma for the Expected Utility Approach, and the Need for an Imperfect View -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Dilemma for the Expected Utility Approach -- 3. Diagnosis -- 4. The Imperfect Approach -- 5. Extension to Other Cases -- References -- Chapter 10: The Puzzle of Inefficacy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introducing the Puzzle of Inefficacy -- 3. Ethical Structure and Social Structure -- 4. Contribution Ethics: A Sketch -- 5. Negligibility and Interaction -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: On Individual and Shared Obligations: In Defense of the Activist's Perspective -- 1. The Activist's Perspective -- 2. Two Problems of Individual Incapability and Group Agency -- 3. Obligations -- 4. Irreducibly Shared Obligations -- 5. Collective Obligations in Spite of Individual Incapability -- 6. Remaining Problems of Collective Capability and Individual Incapability -- References -- Chapter 12: How Much Harm Does Each of Us Do? -- 1. Sorts of Harm and Their Quantity -- 2. New Data and Estimates -- 3. Lives for Money -- 4. The Consequences of Discounting -- 5. Conclusion and Why It Matters. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. Feasibility Wedges and a Meta-Architecture for Global Agreement -- References -- Chapter 15: Pareto Improvements and Feasible Climate Solutions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Concept of 'Political Feasibility' -- 2.1 A Working Definition of 'Political Feasibility' -- 2.2 Feasibility and Self-Interest -- 3. International Paretianism and Climate Change -- 3.1 Prospects for IP Climate Treaties -- 3.1.1 Climate Change as a Coordination Game -- 3.1.2 Climate Change as a Prisoners' Dilemma -- 3.2 Does 'Self-Interest'Suffice? -- 4. The Feasibility of IP Climate Deals -- References -- Chapter 16: Climate Change, Liberalism, and the Public/Private Distinction -- 1. Climate Change and the Anthropocene -- 2. Liberalism and the Public/Private Distinction -- 3. The Distinction Under Pressure -- 4. Pressure Drop? -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index. | |
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