Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment: Gardens of the Anthropocene

This book is a reflection on the role of gardens in our thinking about our environments, and on the role of urban gardening in our acting and for our environments. More generally, it is an exploration of the ethical and political station of individuals in the Anthropocene - this new epoch in which the Earth is being remade by human activity. The book argues that, in the new epoch, urban gardens and gardening are to become 1) conceptual models for reflecting on the human station within the wider workings of things; 2) contexts and practices of stewardship that enable the fulfillment of individual moral obligations against important global challenges - including food security, climate change,…

Etica e politica delle piante

An exploration of the history of the philosophy of plants, with a special emphasis on plant ontology, ethics, and politics.

Antropocene e democrazia

The Anthropocene and its problems unveil and exacerbate some vulnerabilities of democratic theory and practice, particular in its liberal version. Both liberal democracies’ failures and their most promising attempts at managing these problems expose them to powerful legitimacy challenges. The Anthropocene is thus for liberal democracies what Scylla and Carybdis were for Ulysses and his crew: a predicament whereby whichever direction is chosen will lead to serious difficulties and risks, and possibly to significant damages and losses.

Cambiamento climatico, liberalismo, e la distinzione pubblico-privato

In questo saggio si sostiene che il cambiamento climatico metta sotto pressione una distinzione che sta al cuore della teoria e della pratica liberale, quella tra il pubblico e il privato, in modi nuovi e sistematici. Molti dei comportamenti individuali che contribuiscono al cambiamento del clima – - quali usare il computer, farsi una doccia calda, guidare una macchina, riscaldare casa, prendere l’aereo, investire qui o lì, mangiare questo o quello, e fare uno o più figli – sono generalmente considerati privati. E però oggi questi comportamenti hanno conseguenze pubbliche notevolissime, per quanto indirette, che trascendono confini sia spaziali che temporali. Il saggio considera la distinzi…

Globalising Justice: A Multidimensional Approach - Economics

Introduction to the Economics Dimension of the Special Issue on Global Justice

Climate Change: Who Does What, Why and How

This chapter rehearses arguments in favour of the idea that individuals are subject to an obligation to engage in self-starting anti-climate change practices, and indicates what sort of practices individuals would have to engage in for that obligation to be appropriately discharged. It argues that these practices cannot be purely private; rather these must be capable of being interpersonally co-ordinated and when so, of effectively stimulating systemic reform. They must allow for effective signalling and learning; be compatible with individual moral psychology (that is, they must generate individual benefits, not just burdens); and demand of individuals no more than what their measure of per…

"Climate Change and Moral Corruption"

In “A Perfect Moral Storm”, S. Gardiner claims that "the peculiar features of the climate change problem pose substantial obstacles to our ability to make the hard choices necessary to address it. Climate change is a perfect moral storm. One consequence of this is that, even if difficult ethical questions could be answered, we might still find it difficult to act. For the storm makes us extremely vulnerable to moral corruption". Here I comment on the notion of moral corruption. In particular, I discuss the issues of who is susceptible to it and of what sort of problem moral corruption is.

Cambiamento Climatico

Introduzione alla filosofia del cambiamento climatico

Virtue

Climate Change and the Challenges to Democracy

This Article explores the uneasy interaction between climate change and democracy, particularly liberal democracy. Its central claim is that climate change and other problems of the Anthropocene—this new epoch into which no earthly entity, process, or system escapes the reach and influence of human activity—expose and exacerbate existing vulnerabilities in democratic theory and practice, particularly in their currently dominant liberal form; and that both democracies’ failures and their most promising attempts at managing these problems expose democracies to significant legitimacy challenges

Nell'Antropocene. Etica e politica alla fine di un mondo

Monografia su ontologia, etica e politica dell'Antropocene

Il clima dell’Antropocene: disamina realistica di alcune sfide di una nuova epoca

The chapter systematizes and describes the ecological, conceptual, normative, and policy challenges of the Anthropocene, with a focus on the climatic transformations underway. Il looks at various scales of action and inaction, and suggests that ideal theorizing may be significantly out of step with some defining circumstances of the new epoch

Climate Change, Liberalism, and the Public/Private Distinction

In an earlier paper (Jamieson and Di Paola 2016) we explored the ways in which anthropogenic climate change and more generally the Anthropocene—this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity—puts pressure on some central categories and concepts of liberal democratic theory. In this chapter we focus on one particular distinction that is at the heart of liberal theory: that between the public and the private (henceforth ‘the Distinction’). Our claim is that climate change puts pressure on the Distinction in ways that are difficult for liberals to relieve. Our purpose is not to write an obituary for liberalism, but to articulate s…

Lasciare la Terra. Considerazioni etiche sulla colonizzazione di ambienti extraterrestri

Reflections on the value of Earth and Humanity, and the ethics of the New Space Age

Giardini Globali: una filosofia dell'ambientalismo urbano

A monograph on the role of gardens in environmental ethics and their promises for urban environmentalism

Sostenibilità come giustizia applicata

The paper explores the convergences and divergences between the notion of sustainability and that of social and global justice, arguing that the former surpass the latter, but not by much.

Il vincolo di affinità profonda. Verso una filosofia ambientale panpsichista

The article provides some arguments in favour of a panpsychist turn in environmental philosophy. It first explains why dualism remains a favoured polemical target for many environmental activists and theorists, even though the scientific/metaphysical paradigm of reference is now generally physicalist. It then points to some of the tribulations of environmental philosophy in juggling dualism and physicalism. It goes on to describes some of the strategies adopted by environmental philosophers to establish an axiologically-relevant ontological affinity between humans and non-humans, and notes how these strategies punctually (and more or less explicitly and plausibly) return to the recognition …

Political Theory For The Anthropocene

This paper explores the ways in which the Anthropocene, this new epoch in which noearthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity, puts underpressure some traditional categories and concepts of liberal democratic theory. We begin byexplaining the notion of the Anthropocene, and then show how it may affect traditional liberalnotions of agency, responsibility, governance, and legitimacy. We conclude by describing thechallenge of designing new institutions appropriate to the Anthropocene.

Plant Ethics. Concepts and Applications

Climate Change and Human Rights: the 2015 Paris Conference and the Task of Protecting People on a Warming Planet

A Gridlocked World

A Symposium on "Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need It Most" by Held, Hale and Young