Enforcing Climate Change-Sensitive Behaviours

Abstract:

The lecture aims at framing the issue of motivation, with specific reference to patterns of action that are oriented at enforcing climate change-sensitive behaviours. In doing that, the lecture outlines first a preliminary dichotomy between insensitiveness and sensitivity vis à vis climate change previsions and evidence. By limiting the validity of the normative proposal to the Western context, I will thus propose a taxonomy of possible motivations that can trigger or limit climate-change sensitive behaviours in accordance with two of the most common normative approaches: the deontological and the consequentialist one. The issue of imitative behaviour will be thus largely explored, in order to: a) verify the possibility of boosting individual/collective and institutional sensitivity towards key previsions of phenomena related to climate change, and b) to strengthen coherent and consequent forms of behaviour. The main aim is to propose a multifaceted model to overcome the motivational gap that limits (to the point of reducing or even blocking) the adoption of climate change-sensitive behaviors at the individual, collective and institutional levels.

Alberto Pirni – Profile

Alberto Pirni (PhD) is Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa), where he coordinates the Research Area in “Ethics and Global Challenges”.

Prof. Pirni is the Coordinator of the Curriculum 4. “Theories, Institutions and Cultures of Ecological Transition” belonging to the National PhD School in “Sustainable Development and Climate Change” and has been Vice-President of the Joint Ethical Committee between SSSA and Scuola Normale Superiore (2018-2021). He is also member of the Scientific Board of the PhD programmes in “Human Rights, Global Politics, and Sustainability”, and in “Health Science, Technology and Management”.

Finally, he is Responsible Director of the International Journal “Lexicon of Public Ethics”.

He spent research periods at the Universities of Tübingen and of Freiburg i.Br. He was also visiting professor by several universities in Germany, Spain, Russian Federation, Brazil, Argentine, Chile.

He is the author of 5 monographs, 4 co-authored volumes, and over 200 essays in volumes and refereed national and international journals (in 6 languages). He is also the editor and co-editor of more than 25 volumes and monographic issues of journals.

His main research fields involve German Classical Philosophy, public ethics, ethics of technology, ethics and institutions, theories of (climate, energy and intergenerational) justice.

Venue :

University of Luxembourg

Campus Kirchberg - Weicker Building

Room B001 (ground floor)

4, rue Alphonse Weicker, L-2721 Luxembourg

Language :

English

This conference is FREE. Registration is required.