The Philosophical Implications of Climate Change

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Homo sapiens is often celebrated as the peak of living beings. But by our knowledge and appetites we are destroying our habitat through carbon emissions. We have so far proved incapable of reducing them to the extent needed for the continuation of life as we know it, possibly for any form of human life. We seem incapable of cooperating on a global scale. What does this say about us as a species?

Tutor: Antony Black

Antony Black is Emeritus Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Dundee. His published works include a world history of ancient political thought, from prehistory to c.300 CE, a complete history of Islamic political thought, and a comparative study of political thought in the West and in the Muslim-ruled world from the origins to the present, a history and theory of community and recently explored climate change in the context of world history and the challenge it presents today. He is currently working on a global history of political thought up to the present.

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