We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a car….

I'm a subjectivist about morality..

Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage o….

People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will sti….

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power ….

Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kin….

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally qu….

Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they ….

None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral principles, o….

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all ve….

Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to su….

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased..

The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life….

I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as im….

[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral ….

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think..

I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating with political leade….

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe..

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised by t….

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are..

I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics h….