Nigel Dower, prófessor emeritus í heimspeki við Aberdeen-háskóla, hefur um nokkurra ára skeið haldið fyrirlestra í siðfræði náttúrunnar við Háskóla Íslands. Hann hefur m.a. samið bækurnar World Ethics: The New Agenda (1998), Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader (2003) og Ethics of War and Peace (2009). Sérsvið hans er siðfræði og heimspeki þróunar, umhverfis og alþjóðasamskipta. Í erindi sínu „Sustainability and Cosmopolitanism“ fjallar hann um tengsl þessara tveggja hugtaka og siðferðilegan skilning okkar á hugtakinu sjálfbærni.
Um fyrirlesturinn:
Sustainability and Cosmopolitanism
An ethically adequate account of sustainability requires acceptance of cosmopolitanism, and an adequate account of cosmopolitanism must have built into it sustainability. Cosmopolitanism is necessary but not sufficient for sustainability as applying to something, all things considered, worth sustaining.
About Nigel Dower
Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. His main research interests are in the field of the ethics/philosophy of development, environment and international relations. He taught for many years two special subjects relating to his research, one on the ethics of international relations, covering normative theories, war and peace, theories of justice/human rights and global citizenship, and the other on the ethics of development, environment and technology. He has also\ taught various other courses on the ethics of sustainable development. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Iceland and the University of Akureyri several times in the last decade.
