Mac Aräng WillnersPhD Student
About me
Mac Willners is a PhD candidate in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, where he is part of the Norms and Normativity Graduate Research School. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Futures Studies and the Stockholm Center on Global Governance. His general philosophical interests are normative-, applied-, and global ethics, where his current research explores the ethical dimensions of researching and deploying climate engineering technologies. He has previously written about the ethics of carbon offsetting and has recently gained an interest in the ethics of cyberspace governance.
Publications
A selection from Stockholm University publication database
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Why Offsetting is Not Like Shaking a Bag: A Reply to Barry & Cullity
2023. H. Orri Stefánsson, Mac Willners. Ethics, Policy & Environment 26 (1), 144-148
ArticleRead more about Why Offsetting is Not Like Shaking a BagBarry and Cullity argue that when morally assessing a person’s climate actions, we should ask how these actions affect other people’s prospects, understood in terms of the actor’s episemic probabilities. In this comment we argue, first, that even though Barry and Cullity are right in that we should use a person’s epistemic probabilities when assessing her climate actions, it is not clear that their conclusion follows. The reason is that important questions remain about what should be the object of these epistemic probabilities. Second, we argue that emitting and offsetting is morally analogous to drawing from one ‘harm’ bag and one ‘benefit’ bag even though one has the option of drawing from neither bag.
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