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Publikováno v:
Global Sustainability, Vol 4 (2021)
Non-technical summary By the end of 2020, 190 universities and colleges worldwide had publicly committed to divest partially or fully from fossil fuel holdings, to help mitigate global heating. We find a statistical correlation between the status of
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https://doaj.org/article/f14a99560b594454a4038700e577c640
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Les Ateliers de l’Ethique, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 99-109 (2014)
Richness theory offers a promising axiology. In this paper, I discuss how to translate it into a deontology. To do so, I recruit the concept of moral distance from a recently developed epistemology, and construe it in terms of causal power. Finally,
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https://doaj.org/article/d26daaad2a4d4275950d3446ebc5ceb0
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Philosophia. 50:2235-2247
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Council for Research on Religion. 2:1-16
The campaign to divest the endowment of McGill University from fossil fuel has had amazing success in using scientific knowledge to inspire democratic action. Organizations collectively representing all students and academic staff, and most non-acade
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Organization & Environment. 34:287-297
This study examines changes in some key indicators among 66 countries on six continents over a 56-year period, to compare the power of economic growth to improve human health and income distribution with its tendency to degrade the natural environmen
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
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Dossier : Changements climatiques, autonomie de la nature et souffrance animale : repenser les frontières entre l’éthique animale et l’éthique environnementale. 13:101-114
Animal and environmental ethics should converge on the following three value judgments: natural ecosystems generally involve more good than harm; predation in nature tends to yield positive net benefits; and, at least on a global scale, livestock far
Publikováno v:
PLoS ONE, Vol 2, Iss 5, p e444 (2007)
Human activity is causing high rates of biodiversity loss. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the extent to which socioeconomic factors exacerbate or ameliorate our impacts on biological diversity. One such factor, economic inequality, has been
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https://doaj.org/article/3b69005cf7fb4a2284dae8bc648c1bf8
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Canadian Environmental Philosophy ISBN: 9780773557765
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b35ded3a82f22f656ae9adca8003a333
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773557765-006
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773557765-006
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Philosophy of Science. 78:524-527
Autor:
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Publikováno v:
Philosophy of Science. 73:440-447
In this paper, I offer a new defense of scientific realism, tailored for the Akaikean paradigm of statistical hypothesis testing. After proposing definitions of verisimilitude and predictive success, I use computer simulations to show how the latter