PHIL51 Week 3 - Be able to explain why there is a debate

PHIL 51—Scientific Reasoning

Week 3

• Be able to explain why there is a debate about whether we should be telling people to try to lower their carbon footprints
  • The main reasons given in Dialogues on Climate Justice for and against telling people to lower their carbon footprints
  • The idea of carbon elitism. What it means and what it has to do with this debate
  • The idea of a fair share. What it means and what it has to do with this debate
  • The idea of a tipping point. What it means and what it has to do with this debate
  • The idea of offsetting. What it means and what it has to do with this debate
  • The idea of climate anarchism. What it means and what it has to do with this debate
  • The idea ofanti-capitalism. What it means and what it has to do with this debate
• Joyguzzling.
• Moral requirements
• Be able to explain the following arguments against the thesis that there is no moral requirement to refrain from emitting a reasonable amount of green house gases in order to enjoy oneself AND the main criticisms that Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong make of each argument:
  • Virtue ethics.
  • Group causation.
  • Simple division.
  • Partial causation.
  • Expected disvalue.
  • Fair shares.
  • Politics.