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Climate change is not caused by a single agent, but by a vast number of individuals and institutions (including economic, social, and political institutions) not unified by a comprehensive structure of agency. This is important because it poses a challenge to humanity’s ability to respond.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
3. But what are we *doing* when we designate something (or someone) as PROBLEMATIC, as opposed to 'morally or politically objectionable'?
Why don't we just *spell out* our reasons for objection in the first place?
In Honour of a New Acade...
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Bernoulli’s brilliance lay not in his mathematics but in his psychology—in his realization that what we objectively get (wealth) is not the same as what we subjectively experience when we get it (utility).
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
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