Catastrophic Dilemmas: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Climate Change
Monday, Oct 28, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
The climate crisis poses ethical and political challenges of the highest magnitude—challenges that go beyond technical innovation and policy reform. In this panel discussion, speakers will address these questions, as well as the multinational and multifaceted ways that global climate change undermines conventional understandings of ethical responsibility, political community, and rational decision-making.
Speakers
Holly Jean Buck, 2024–2025 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow; assistant professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo
Serena Parekh, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, associate professor of philosophy, Georgetown University
Moderator: Lucas Stanczyk, associate professor of philosophy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Speakers
Holly Jean Buck, 2024–2025 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow; assistant professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo
Serena Parekh, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, associate professor of philosophy, Georgetown University
Moderator: Lucas Stanczyk, associate professor of philosophy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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