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…

- Dale Jamieson

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…

- Dale Jamieson

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 …

- Dale Jamieson

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…

- Dale Jamieson

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

- Dale Jamieson

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

- Dale Jamieson

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…

- Dale Jamieson

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

- Dale Jamieson

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…

- Dale Jamieson