Dale Jamieson and Jay Odenbaugh

Jay Odenbaugh (left) and Dale Jamieson (right) on climate change.



In this conversation, Jamieson and Odenbaugh discuss how climate change raises novel philosophical concerns and underscores traditional ones. Climate change, they explain, poses a challenge for both consequentialism and its alternatives, and brings out questions about our obligations to future generations and about the moral status of non-humans. Further, the public controversy over climate science involves questions about the epistemology of testimony, the value-neutrality of science, and action under uncertainty.

Related works

by Jamieson:

with Robert Elliot: “Progressive Consequentialism” (2009)

by Odenbaugh:

“Subsistence versus Sustainable Emissions?” (draft)

More video:

Jay Odenbaugh and Craig Callender (BhTV)

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