#ClimateEthics #Philosophy

I'm excited to by welcoming John Broome (Oxford) to TU Delft | The Hague Campus, for an evening of conversation about the ethics of climate action ☀️💨🌊🌳🚄🍎

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TU Delft ESDiT Consortium 4TU.Ethics Behnam Taebi

Absolutely loving @JeffrSebo's 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗦, 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗦. One of those books that simultaneously makes want to (a) spend several lifetimes reflecting on fundamental philosophical questions and (b) change the world.

Killing birds through horrific factory farm conditions has a downside: you have to walk to pick them up and put them in the bin.

No worries, we've got a solution. Use the Chicken Reaper. It's user friendly! Less walking! Convenient! Call us today, then put your feet up!

This example is bit on the nose for an academic journal, don't you think?

I've heard anecdotally that some professors are using LLMs to mark essays. Professors doing this have heard of 'jailbreaking', right?

See if you can spot the simple grade-maximizing technique I found that works on GPT3.5... 🤡🤡🤡🤡

How to promote 'impactful' humanities research:

UK—Create a massive beaurocratic exercise that pisses everyone off and promotes a reductive, gamified notion of impact.

NL—Ask researchers for advice on issues where human values are pertinent. Create extra grants for such work.

If anyone is confused about how the fact v. opinion distinction is being widely used in a way that constitutes misinformation, I highly recommend they read the evidence submitted to the UK parliament by A X Douglas and the late Katherine Hawley. data.parliament.uk/WrittenEvidenc…

Imagine being this conceptually confused but thinking that you're in a position to lecture people about misinformation. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/fact-o…

Nice little news story about some of the Climate Ethics teaching I've been doing with a colleague ☺️

delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/you…

Incredible tweet. And just in time for my lecture on the Is/Ought fallacy tomorrow!

Nice little paper from Deonna & Teroni
-Uses some nice observations about 'emotional sensitivities' to defend their view that nonevaluative evidence can justify emos
-Argues that emos give us epistemic goodies due to modulatng attention & are needed for graspng some eval concepts

1 reason I didn't apply for jobs in America is because I didn't want to have to fly the whole fucking time. I'm currently 15months flight free, having taken trains & boats from Scotland to conferences in Netherlands, Sweden, Czech Republic & a wedding in Hungary. Next up: Lisbon!

Today I'm revisiting Christine Tappolet's 2016 book, Emotions, Values,& Agency. T sets out the case for her view that emotions are literally a kind of perceptual experience & explores related issues about action and ethics. There's lots I disagree with, but it's a very good book.

When teaching intro ethics to non-philosophers, I like to lead with an intro to moral reasoning (rather than, e.g., telling them about the Big 3 ethical theories). Shafer-Landau's The Fundamentals of Ethics has some great resources for this!