Moral Theory and Climate Change

Dale E. Miller is a Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas . He is the author of J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought (2010) and he is a co-editor of Rules, Morality, and Consequences (2000); John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011); The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014); and A Companion to Mill (2017).Ben Eggleston is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He is the editor of Utilitarianism: With Related Remarks from Mill’s Other Writings, by John Stuart Mill (2017), and a co-editor of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (2014). His research interests include normative ethics, rational choice theory, and philosophy of law.

• 1. Introduction 2. Modern Climate Change: A Symptom of a Single-Species High-Energy Pulse 3. Ethical Challenges Posed by Climate Change: An Overview 4. Procreation, Carbon Tax, and Poverty: An Act-Consequentialist Climate-Change Agenda 5. The Rule-Consequentialist Response to Climate Change 6. Kant and Climate Change: A Territorial Rights Approach 7. Contractualism and Climate Change 8. Contractarianism and Climate Change 9. Natural Law Theory and Climate Change 10. Virtue Ethics and Climate Change 11. From Caring to Counter-Consumption: Feminist Moral Perspectives on Consumerism and Climate Change 12. Pragmatist Ethics and Climate Change 13. Phenomenology and the Ethics of Difference: Levinas, Responsibility, and Climate Change