Moral Enhancement and Climate Change: Might It Work?

Hauskeller, M ORCID: 0000-0002-4452-4813 and Kulawska, Aleksandra (2018) Moral Enhancement and Climate Change: Might It Work? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 83. pp. 371-388.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Climate change is one of the most urgent global problems that we face today. The causes are well understood and many solutions have been proposed; however, so far none have been successful. Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu have argued that this is because our moral psychology is ill-equipped to deal with global problems such as this. They propose that in order to successfully mitigate climate change we should morally enhance ourselves. In this chapter we look at their proposal to see whether moral enhancement is indeed a viable solution to the climate crisis, and conclude that due to various theoretical and practical problems it most likely is not.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	13 Climate Action
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2019 10:01
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2024 02:08
DOI:	10.1017/s1358246118000450
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3031185