Dale Jamieson (born 1947) is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at

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, a scholar of

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and

animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have Moral patienthood, moral worth independent of their Utilitarianism, utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as ...

, and an analyst of

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discourse. He also serves as a faculty affiliate for the

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and as director of NYU's

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Initiative, which was funded by Brad Goldberg with a $1 million donation in 2010. In addition to his affiliation with the NYU Departments of Environmental Studies and

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, Jamieson also holds positions at

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and at the

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in Australia. Previously, Jamieson had been at

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and the

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, with visiting roles at other universities, including

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, and

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. In 2015, he presented the Arthur C. Wickenden lecture at

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. He is a critic of geo-engineering proposals.

Biography

Jamieson was born in

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, in 1947. He grew up in

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, where he was an avid surfer. He received his B.A. in 1970 from

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, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the

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in 1976. He began his academic career at

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, where he taught as a visiting instructor in philosophy from January 1975 to May 1978.

Selected publications

''Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic''
(''Environmental Values'', 1997) * Co-editor with Marc Bekoff, ''Readings in Animal Cognition'' (The MIT Press, 1995) * ''Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature'' (Oxford, 2002) * ''Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction'' (Cambridge, 2008) * Co-editor with Lori Gruen and Chris Schlottmann, ''Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy'', 2nd Edition (Oxford, 2012) * ''Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed--and What It Means For Our Future'' (Oxford, 2014) *''Love in the Anthropocene: Stories on Human Love in a World Without Nature'' co-authored with Bonnie Nadzam (OR Books, Sept 2015)

Biography

Selected publications

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Further reading