Ethics and climate change is the theme of an upcoming lecture in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 . , a renowned philosopher at the University of Washington in Seattle, will discuss 鈥淕eoengineering and Moral Schizophrenia鈥 on Friday, Nov. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Kilian Room (500) of the Hall of Languages. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is followed by a light reception. For more information, call the college鈥檚 at 315-443-4501.
The lecture is organized and presented by the new .
鈥淧rofessor Gardiner鈥檚 research lies at the intersection of human rights, climate economics and the ethics of geoengineering,鈥 says SU’s Ben Bradley, associate professor and chair of philosophy, as well as director of the ILM in Ethics program. 鈥淎nyone with an interest in global justice, as well as environmental science and policy, will surely find the discussion compelling.鈥
Gardiner鈥檚 lecture is expected to draw from his critically acclaimed book 鈥溾 (Oxford University Press, 2011), which sheds new light on environmental ethics.
One of the big 鈥渟torms鈥 that makes society vulnerable to corruption, he argues, is the temptation to pass on the cost of climate change to poorer, weaker citizens of the world and to future generations. Another 鈥渟torm鈥 is society鈥檚 general ignorance of science, international justice and the physical environment鈥攕omething that ultimately leads to inaction.
鈥淲e are engaging in willful self-deception, where the lives of future generations, the world’s poor and even the basic fabric of life on the planet is at stake,鈥 writes Gardiner, professor of philosophy and the Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor in Human Dimensions of the Environment at UW. 鈥淲e should wake up to this profound ethical failure, and demand more of our institutions, our leaders and ourselves.鈥
An expert in ethics, political philosophy and environmental ethics, Gardiner is also a scholar of ancient philosophy, bioethics and the philosophy of economics. He has written numerous articles and essays, and has edited the books 鈥溾 (Oxford Univeresity Press, 2010) and 鈥溾 (Cornell University Press, 2005). Gardiner earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell.
