Climate Change (old guide)
Provides resources on climate change and global warming from the perspective of the disciplines of science, social science and humanities.
Philosophy and climate change
What does the discipline of philosophy bring to our understanding of climate change?
- a moral analysis of a global crisis
- perspectives on the individual ethical responses to climate change
- ontological questions about human existence
- insights from existentialism on the collective consciousness in response to climate change
Web resources
- The Moral Costs of Climate ChangePodcast from Philosophy Talk, Nov. 2014
- Existentialism: A guiding philosophy for tackling climate change in cities?Article in The Conversation, Jan. 2019
- Philosophers On Climate ChangeArticle from the Daily Nous, 'News For and About the Philosophy Profession', Dec. 2015
Books and ebooks
Reason in a Dark Time : why the struggle against climate change failed--and what it means for our future by Call Number: Southeast Main Collection 363.7387 J36r 2014Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Debating Climate Ethics by Call Number: Sylvania and Rock Creek Main Collection 179.1 G37d 2016Publication Date: 2016-07-01
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy by Call Number: online encyclopediaPublication Date: 2008-11-01
DVDs and streaming videos
Sixty people from 30 countries join Michael Sandel in a digital studio at Harvard to discuss the philosophical issues underlying the world's response to climate change. (42 minutes)
A talk by Oregon State University professor and author Kathleen Dean Moore (48 minutes)