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Posts by James Hutton

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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

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Looks great!

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#philsky #philosophy #amidoingitrite?

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Sure would be a shame if someone were to come along and ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘ฆ... say, by drawing on recent work that argues we can acquire moral knowledge through emotional experiences...

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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":

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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...

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At least it's not LinkedIn, eh?

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