Responsibility for Climate Crises: Tackling Claims to Certainty and Human Exceptionalism
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2023-09-25
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As the dominant contemporary discourse dealing with the relations between humans, other-than-human species and environments, the Anthropocene debate features two issues that I identify, namely claims to certainty and human exceptionalism. In order to critique these issues, I probe the works of diverse authors who explore different articulations of responsibility for climate crises. While Fyodorov renders humans thoughtless by imposing an obligation on them and by claiming certainty, Haraway assumes humans ought to be fully conscientious of their actions in and entanglements with their environments, and Arendt emphasizes the spontaneity, uncertainty and unpredictability of action. I argue that exploring the uncertain space in-between thoughtlessness and conscientiousness can provide means to conceptualize novel ways of responding to climate crises that acknowledge multi-species entanglements.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen