NOWAR 5 Program Out!

The program for the November 14-16, 2019 meeting of the fifth New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 5) is now out, posted here. Registration is free, but because space is limited, it’s first-come, first-served. Email me (dshoemak AT tulane DOT edu) to register.

How Would We Know if We Made a Climate Difference? (Guest Post by Kian Mintz-Woo for Applied Ethics April)

Broome (2019) discusses several philosophers who have denied that individual people cause harm via emissions and resultant climate change. He calls these philosophers “individual denialists”. Influential examples include Sinnott-Armstrong (2005), Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong (2018), and Cripps (2013). I am going to introduce a puzzle for […] Read More

Matthew Rendall: “Discounting, Climate Change and the Ecological Fallacy”. Précis by Samuel Scheffler

Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Matthew Rendall’s “Discounting, Climate Change and the Ecological Fallacy.” The paper is published in the most recent issue of Ethics, and is available here. Samuel Scheffler has kindly agreed to contribute a […] Read More