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1. Edited Collections

Climate Ethics: Essential Readings, Oxford University Press, In Press [Due: May 2010]. Co-edited with Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, and Henry Shue.

Virtue Ethics: Old and New, Cornell University Press, 2005. [Available from Cornell University Press]

2. Articles

'Is "Arming the Future" with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System'. In Gardiner, Caney, Jamieson and Shue (In press). [Draft version available here]

'Rawls and Climate Change: Does Rawlsian Political Philosophy Pass the Global Test?' Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Special Issue on Climate Change and Liberal Priorities, edited by Catriona McKinnon and Gideon Calder. (Forthcoming)

‘Ethics and Climate Change: An Introduction'. In Michael Hulme, ed. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. [Draft version available here ] (In press)

‘Socrates on the Impossibility of a Reasonable Politics'. In Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Georgios Agnostopoulos eds., Festschrift for David Keyt. To appear in the journal Philosophical Inquiry, and also as a separate book. [Draft version available here] (Forthcoming)

‘Climate Change as a Global Test for Contemporary Political Institutions and Theories'. In Karen O'Brien, Asuncion Lera St. Clair, and Berit Kristoffersen, eds., Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security, Cambridge University Press.[Draft version available here] (In press)

'A Contract on Future Generations?'. In Axel Gosseries and Lukas Meyer, eds., Intergenerational Justice. Oxford, 2009: 77-119.

'Saved By Disaster? Abrupt Climate Change, Political Inertia and the Possibility of an Intergenerational Arms Race', Journal of Social Philosophy, 2009. Special Issue on Global Environmental Issues, edited by Tim Hayward. (Forthcoming) [Draft version available here]

'Why We Need More than Justification in the Ethics of Nuclear Protection: A View from Outside'. In Gilbert Eggermont and Bernard Feltz, eds., Ethics and Radiological Protection. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia, 2008, 97-111. [Download draft version here: Nuclear Protection]

'A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption', Environmental Values 15. August 2006, 397-413. Special Issue on Princeton Workshop on Values in Nature. Commentary by Peter Singer. [Reprinted in: Steven Vanderheiden, ed., Political Theory and Climate Change. MIT Press, 2008: 25-42; Eldon Soifer, ed. Ethical Issues, 3rd edition, Broadview Press, 2009; and Gardiner, Caney, Jamieson and Shue, Climate Ethics, Oxford, 2009 (forthcoming).] [Download earlier draft version here: 'A Perfect Moral Storm']

'Protecting Future Generations'. In Joerg Tremmel, ed., A Handbook of Intergenerational Justice. Elgar, 2006, 148-169. [A related presentation was initially published as a working paper by Chaire developpment durable, Paris. Available at: 'Why Do Future Generations Need Protection?']

'A Core Precautionary Principle', The Journal of Political Philosophy 14.1, March 2006, 33-60. [Download earlier draft version here: 'A Core Precautionary Principle']

'Seneca's Virtuous Moral Rules', in Virtue Ethics: Old and New, 2005. [Download draft version here: Seneca's Virtuous Moral Rules]

'Ethics and Global Climate Change', Ethics 114, April 2004, 555-600. [Reprinted in: David Boonin and Graham Oddie, eds., What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics. 2nd edition. Oxford, 2009; Gary Comstock, ed., Life Science Ethics. Springer, 2nd edition, 2009; Louis Pojman and Paul Pojman, eds., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Practice. Wadsworth, 5th edition, 2007; and Gardiner, Caney, Jamieson and Shue, Climate Ethics, Oxford, 2009 (forthcoming).]

'The Global Warming Tragedy and the Dangerous Illusion of the Kyoto Protocol', Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2004, 23-39.

'The Pure Intergenerational Problem', The Monist: Special Issue on Moral Distance, Vol. 86, No. 3, July 2003, 481-500.

'The Real Tragedy of the Commons', Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2001, 387-416. [Reprinted in: Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, eds. Global Ethics: Seminal Essays, Paragon, 2008.]

'Aristotle's Basic and Nonbasic Virtues', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XX, Summer 2001, 261-296.

'Aristotle, Egoism and the Virtuous Person's Point of View', in D. Baltzly, D. Blyth, H. Tarrant, eds., Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy, 2001, 239-262. [Available here]

3. Shorter Pieces

'Environmentalism: An Update'. In Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge, eds. A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy. 2nd edition. Blackwell, 2008, 589-592.

'Is Geoengineering the 'Lesser Evil'?'. Environmental Research Web, April 18, 2007. [Available here]

'Environmental Midwifery and the Need for an Ethics of the Transition: A Quick Riff on the Future of Environmental Ethics', Ethics and the Environment. Vol. 12, No. 2, 2007, 122-3.

'Dilbert and Global Warming', Think, Royal Institute of Philosophy. Summer 2006, 65-74.

4. Book Reviews

Review of Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View, Mind 114, January 2005, 207-212.

Review of George W. Harris, Agent-Centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism, Prudentia 33.1, May 2001, 15-17.

Review of Gary Varner, In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 78, Number 2, June 2000, 287-8.