Dale Jamieson

Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, New York University.

Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection at New York University. His is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed and What It Means for Our Future (2014), and Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy (2019, with Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes and others). He has also published a collection of short stories, Love in the Anthropocene (2015), with the novelist Bonnie Nadzam. Much of his current thinking centers on the theme of imagination and conservation.

Participant In:

Living in the Anthropocene

2:30pm on Saturday, April 27th, 2019

Past Event

What underlying conceptual questions prompted this new characterization of our planet’s present era? What does this imply for the distinctions we have become accustomed to: between human subjects (however varied) and the non-human realm, between nature and artifice, between agency and objectivity? These conceptual questions are not simply academic; they are asked with a view… read more »