Abstract Some conceptions of the role philosophers in climate change focus mainly on theoretical progress philosophy, or as individual citizens. Against these views, I defend a skill view : should use our characteristic skills to combat by integrating it into teaching, research, service, and community engagement. A progress, citizenship, expertise, virtue, ability, social role, power, rather th...

Henry David Thoreau once posed a Question which now challenges us as philosophers who would take up the issue of ethics and animals: "What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?" This Question is a spur to us. Even if we object that the Question requires Qualification, that "absolutely nothing" is too strong. that philosophers have indeed ...