Dale Jamieson

Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at New York City University; Director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection

Dale Jamieson is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at New York University and the Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection. He is an affiliated Professor of Law, Medical Ethics, and Bioethics; He led the creation of the Department of Environmental Studies and the graduate program in Animal Studies at New York University, and his the former Chair of the Environmental Studies Department, and Professor of Philosophy.

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Dale Jamieson is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at New York University and the Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection. He is an affiliated Professor of Law, Medical Ethics, and Bioethics; He led the creation of the Department of Environmental Studies and the graduate program in Animal Studies at New York University, and his the former Chair of the Environmental Studies Department, and Professor of Philosophy.

His recent work concerns the complex relations between environmental and animal protection, especially in relation to food and conservation, with a special focus on China; the prospects for progressive consequentialism; and the nature and uses of love. Underlying all of this work is his ongoing concern with how to live in the Anthropocene, both as an individual actor and political agent.

In 2017 he was Zurich Distinguished Visitor on Climate Change at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In 2016 he was awarded the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences William R. Freudenburg Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jamieson is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed–and What It Means For Our Future (Oxford, 2014), Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2008; second edition due out in 2023), Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002), and most recently, Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy (Chicago, 2019), co-authored with Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes and others. Jamieson has published more than one hundred articles and book chapters, is on the editorial boards of several journals, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Office of Global Programs in the National Atmospheric and Aeronautics Administration, as well as private foundations.