Today i'm reading Catriona McKinnon (2014) 'Climate Change: Against Despair'
-Is it fitting to feel despair about making the climate crisis less shitty?
-Nope. It's possible for your/our choices to make things less bad than they would hv been.
-So hope, not despair, is fitting.
Seems right. #philsky
Looks great!
#philsky #philosophy #amidoingitrite?
Sure would be a shame if someone were to come along and ππ’ππ π‘πππ π‘βπππ πππ‘πππππππ π‘ πππ‘βπππππππ¦... say, by drawing on recent work that argues we can acquire moral knowledge through emotional experiences...
I'm reading a load of classic texts in environmental ethics. It's very striking how often it all comes down to a distinctive view about moral epistemology.
Here's Paul Taylor railing against "intuitions" and recommending "thinking things thru to their foundations":
Come on down to TU Delft Library on Tuesday evening to hear me speak on a panel about emotions and geoengineering. I think there will be a youtube vid afterwards
sg.tudelft.nl/event/the-fi...
At least it's not LinkedIn, eh?
