...waste are often justified by appeal to (utilitarian) ethics that, as philosopher Stephen Gardiner has shown, is misleading, not least because the “greatest good” is determined by the use of...
Imagine a parent–teacher conference. The teacher tells you your child is “on track” to graduate from high school. Relieved, you follow up: “Great! Can you tell me more precisely what...
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. He specializes in climate ethics, political philosophy and ethical theory. He is the author of A Perfect...
...logic is left vague, area for future work. These three logics parallel the “storms” that Stephen M. Gardiner articulated over a decade ago under the problem of the global storm...
...Change: Why Practices and Practitioners Matter, in Ethics and International Affairs. Watene, K. (in press). Kaitiakitanga: Toward an Intergenerational Philosophy, in Stephen Gardiner (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics. Tweet...
...more from us. Why do I think this? Because the handoff approach, in my view, looks a lot like what Steve Gardiner (2011) calls intergenerational buck-passing. Gardiner describes this phenomenon in the...