Dale Jamieson

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Dale Jamieson (born October 21, 1947 in Sioux City , Iowa , USA ) is an American professor of environmental science , philosophy and law at New York University .

Life

Jamieson was born on October 21, 1947 in Sioux City, Iowa. The family later moved to Waterloo , where he grew up near large meat processing companies. She moved on to California around 1959. Despite the humble circumstances in which they lived, his parents made it possible for him to attend a Lutheran boarding school in Oakland , near San Francisco , from the age of 14 . In addition to the Lutheran moral tradition, he was also influenced by the culture of protest and the counter-public in San Francisco in the 1960s.

He began studying at San Francisco State University in 1967, graduating in 1970 with a BA in Philosophy and Religion. In 1976 he received a Ph.D. (Philosophy) from the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill for his work in the field of philosophy of language . His doctoral supervisor was Paul Ziff , whose influence Jamieson calls “tangible in everything he thinks and writes”. He began his professional career at North Carolina State University , where he met Tom Regan and worked with him until the late 1970s. His essay The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism , published in 1975, prompted Jamieson to also deal with animal ethics.

From 1978 to 1980 Jamieson was employed at the State University of New York , then professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado and professor of the human dimensions of global change at Carleton College . In 1985 he met the ethologist Marc Bekoff , with whom he published several articles and devoted himself to the philosophical training of scientists and the dissemination of animal ethics. Jamieson has been Professor of Environmental Science and Philosophy at New York University since 2004 .

Environmental and climate ethics

Jamieson's most cited writings include essays on environmental ethics, especially on climate ethics. He describes his approach to environmental ethics as a philosophical perspective naturalistically , from a moral perspective consequentialist and from metaethischer perspective constructivist .

Jamieson was one of the few philosophers who wrote about the problem of man-made climate change as early as the early 1990s . Stephen Mark Gardiner describes him as one of the pioneers of climate ethics. Jamieson believes that climate diplomacy, which began with the Rio Conference in 1992, was finally shipwrecked with the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference . As the greatest of many hurdles, Jamieson names the evolutionary development of humans, which did not equip them with the ability to perceive the gradual, barely noticeable, short-term stochastic processes superimposed on climate change as an immediate threat and such a global, temporally almost unlimited problem with its indirect ones Understanding effects and responding to them.

“Underneath these reactions are some deep truths about our animal nature. Climate change must be thought rather than sensed, and we are not very good at thinking. Even if we succeed in thinking that something is a threat, we are less reactive than if we sense that it is a threat. Consider the difference between touching a hot stove and being told that the stove is hot. Scientists are telling us that the world is warming, but we do not sense it and so we do not act. This is the hardest problem to overcome. "

“This behavior is based on deep truths about our animal nature. Climate change needs to be thought instead of felt, and we are not very good at thinking. Even when we manage to think that something is a threat, we are less reactive than when we feel the threat. Take the case of touching a hot stove or being told the stove is hot. Scientists tell us that the earth is warming, but we don't feel it and so we don't act. That is the hardest problem to overcome. "

- Jamieson : Reason in a Dark Time

Jamieson sees reason for cautious optimism in the fact that the environmental movement is now politically established in most countries. The struggle to stabilize the climate is now primarily taking place within the states. For the time being, in his opinion, we have to be content with mobilizing a broad spectrum of actors and with a confused multitude of multilateral political measures instead of the one safe silver bullet, and hope that the worst scenarios will not materialize.

Animal ethics

Much of Jamieson's publications deal with human-animal relationships, animals themselves, and especially cognitive ethology . It represents essentially a utilitarian established animal welfare position that a particular focus on the individual freedom brought by humans and other animals. His essays Against Zoos (“Against zoological gardens ”) and Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic (“The animal liberation ethic is an environmental ethic ”) have been reprinted and received many times. In his essay on zoos, Jamieson argues that different defenses for zoos refer to different types of zoos and are in part incompatible with one another. His attack on zoos is then based on the thesis that these cause suffering and cannot fulfill the alleged educational purpose because they "give us [people] a false and dangerous picture of our own position in the world".

Furthermore, in the 1980s he exerted a conciliatory influence on the sometimes very sharp debates between supporters of environmental ethics and those of an animal liberation position:

“The movement of those who are sensitized to the interests of the environment and animals is still in its infancy. We are in a cultural transition, between an ideology that understands nature as a resource to be exploited to a culture that understands the importance of a way of life in harmony with nature. It will be a long time before we fully grasp the exact implications of these debates. But for now it's important to understand that the animal liberation ethic is an environmental ethic and should be welcome in this family. "

- Jamieson : Animal liberation is an environmental ethic. P.56

Fonts

Monographs

  • Naomi Oreskes , Michael Oppenheimer, Dale Jamieson: Discerning Experts: The Practices of Assessment for Environmental Policy . The University of Chicago Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-226-60201-1 .
  • Dale Jamieson: Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed - And What It Means for Our Future . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-933766-8 .
  • Dale Jamieson: Ethics and the Environment: an Introduction . Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-86421-3 .
  • Dale Jamieson: Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature . Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-925145-2 .

Articles (selection)

  • Dale W. Jamieson, Marcello Di Paola: Climate Change and Global Justice: New Problem, Old Paradigm? In: Angela Kallhoff (Ed.): Climate Justice and Climate Ethics . De Gruyter, 2015, doi : 10.1515 / 9783110401066-003 (English: Climate Change and Global Justice: New Problem, Old Paradigm? 2014.).
  • Dale Jamieson: Against zoos . In: In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave . Basil Blackwell, New York 2005, pp. 132-144 ( animal-rights-library.com ).
    • Against zoological gardens . In: Peter Singer (ed.): Defends the animals - considerations for a new humanity . Ullstein, Vienna 1986.
  • Dale Jamieson: Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic . In: Environmental Values . tape 7 , no. 1 , 1998, p. 41-57 , doi : 10.3197 / 096327198129341465 .
  • Dale Jamieson: Ethics and intentional climate change . In: Climatic Change . tape 33 , no. 3 , 1996, p. 323-336 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00142580 .
  • Dale Jamieson: Ethics, public policy, and global warming . In: Global Bioethics . tape 5 , no. 1 , 1992, p. 31-42 , doi : 10.1177 / 016224399201700201 .

Editing (selection)

  • Dale Jamieson (Ed.): A companion to environmental philosophy . John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-0659-7 .
  • Dale Jamieson (Ed.): Singer and His Critics . 1st edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 1999, ISBN 1-55786-909-X .
  • Paul Ziff and Dale Jamieson (Eds.): Language, Mind, and Art: Essays in Appreciation and Analysis in Honor of Paul Ziff . Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, ISBN 0-7923-2810-8 .

literature

  • Stephen Gardiner: Jamieson, Dale . In: Robert Frodeman and J. Baird Callicott (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy . 1st edition. Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, ISBN 0-02-866137-0 .

Web links

  • Profile page about Dale Jamieson at the Department of Arts and Science at New York University.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Faculty Profiles - Dale Jamieson - Overview. New York University, Faculty of Law, accessed August 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Jamieson: Reason in a Dark Time. 2014, p. Xiii.
  3. ^ A b Dale Jamieson: Afterword: Child of the Sixties . In: Morality's Progress . 2002.
  4. ↑ Dale Jamieson. In: BigThink. Retrieved August 28, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Jamieson: Morality's Progress . 2003, p. Vii. To: Gardiner: Dale, Jamieson. 2008.
  6. ↑ Stephen M. Gardiner: Ethics and Global Climate Change . In: Ethics . tape 114 , no. April 3 , 2004, doi : 10.1086 / 382247 , JSTOR : 382247 .
  7. ^ Gardiner: Jamieson, Dale , 2008.
  8. ↑ Jamieson: Reason in a Dark Time. 2014, pp. 102, 103.
  9. ↑ Jamieson: Reason in a Dark Time. 2014, p. 103.
  10. ↑ Jamieson: Reason in a Dark Time. 2014, pp. 237, 238.
  11. ↑ Jamieson: Against Zoos. 2005, p. 142.
personal data
SURNAME Jamieson, Dale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American professor, professor of environmental science, philosophy, and law at New York University
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Sioux City , Iowa , USA