Our seminar speaker next week, February 7th, will be our very own Sophie-Grace Chappell. Details below.<\/p>\n
\u2018Virtue Ethics and Climate Change\u2019<\/p>\n
This paper is more about virtue ethics than climate change. It discusses two possible virtue-ethical approaches to climate change and similar issues in “emergency ethics”, one that takes\u00a0virtue ethics to be a systematic moral theory of the usual sort, the other that takes virtue ethics to be a broader and looser approach to ethics–an ethical outlook. It considers two objections, the timescale objection and the authority objection. To the former of these, either version of\u00a0virtue ethics seems more vulnerable than other approaches in ethics, but I suggest remedies from McDowell and Aquinas. To the latter objection, I suggest that the general moral scepticism that underlies it is better outflanked than attacked directly. I aim to outflank it by proposing what I call\u00a0enchanted realism, which is\u00a0a metaethics which I think goes particularly well with virtue ethics, and which is also highly pertinent to the\u00a0issue of climate change.<\/p>\n
It will run from 2-4pm\u00a0in CMR15. All welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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