In this DynamiTE seminar, Dale Jamieson will be presenting his paper ‘The Rights of Nature: Philosophical Challenges and Pragmatic Opportunities’.
Time and place: – ,
via zoom
Dale Jamieson is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies and Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, New York University.
He is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed--and What It Means For Our Future (Oxford, 2014), Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2008), Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002), and Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy (Chicago, 2019), co-authored with Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes and others. He is also the co-author of Love in the Anthropocene (OR, 2015).
Abstract: In this paper I focus on conceptual challenges involved in creating an actionable rights-of-nature (RoN) framework that can meaningfully contribute to protecting both humans and the nonhuman world. I begin with an origin story, in which some of these challenges are implicit. I then sketch what I take to be three sources of the current interest in RoN, highlighting some of the opportunities and obstacles they bring to the fore. This chapter asks more questions than provides answers, though I end by gesturing in the direction of a path forward.
If you are interested in attending this event, please send an email to alejandra.mancilla[at]ifikk.uio.no.
The 'DynamiTE lunchtime seminars' are a part of the project 'Dynamic Territory'. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 948964).
PublishedNov. 8, 2023 10:23 AM - Last modifiedNov. 9, 2023 11:31 AM
