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James Hutton
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Philosopher at TU Delft 🇳🇱 writing about emotions ⇔ ethical knowledge ⇔ environmental philosophy. Recovering Kant scholar. he/him https://jameshuttonphil.weebly.com
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
December 8, 2023 at 12:49 PM
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":
December 7, 2023 at 11:41 AM
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...
December 7, 2023 at 11:33 AM
At least it's not LinkedIn, eh?
December 5, 2023 at 2:52 PM