Philosophy of Climate Protest
Philosophy of Climate Protest
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My current research project funded by the Irish Research Council examines
normative disorientation and conceptual loss in the climate movement
climate emotions, particularly focusing on the rationality of despair
the illocutionary dimensions of greenwashing and institutional capture and movement tactics blocking greenwashing speech
My project mentor is Prof. Maeve Cooke.
Articles
Draft: a paper on pessimism and solidarity
Draft: a paper on pessimism as a response to tragedy in moral decision-making
Draft: a paper on how governments and corporations hijack moral concepts engineered by climate activists and climate scientists, re-engineering their meaning
Under Review: Why Take the Side of the Powerful? Lessions from Feminist Ethics on Effective Altruism and Longtermism
Revise and Resubmit @ Environmental Values: Losing Your Concepts During Climate Breakdown
Revise and Resubmit @ Environmental Ethics: : Never Trust a COP - The Epistemic Costs of Participation in UN Climate Spaces for Grassroots Activists
Forthcoming: Wieviel darf Klima-Aktivismus verlangen?, Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, 2025
Pessimism for Climate Activists, Ethics and the Environment, 2024
Ein Gutes Leben Muss Keine Geschichte Erzählen, Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, 2023
Future Bias and Intuition Shifts between Moments and Lifetimes, Inquiry, 2022
Book Chapters
Draft: a chapter on self-care, and how to make it feminist again
"In Defence of Despair about Climate Breakdown", in The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond, Routledge 2024
"Is Humanity Worth Saving? - Philosophical Pessimism and Joel's Choice", in The Last of Us and Philosophy: Look for the Light, ed. Joshua Horn, Wiley-Blackwell 2024
Public Writing Stuff
How to Face Never-Ending Defeat. Scottish Left Review, 2024
Barbie for Radicals - or how Greta Gerwig took on Plato and won. Scottish Left Review 2023.
Migration Experiences, New Scots, and the Limits of Civic Nationalism. Scottish Left Review 2023. URL:
The Ruins of COP26. Bella Caledonia, November 2022.
How should we rationally respond to climate breakdown? – Thoughts Podcast Episode, October 2020.
Fear and Anger are Rational Responses to Climate Change. The Conversation, March 2019.
The Presidents Club Dinner: Why Good Deeds Never Justify Bad Actions, The Conversation, January 2018.
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