Philosophical discussions of climate change have mainly conceived of it as a moral or ethical problem, but climate change also raises new challenges for aesthetics. In this chapter I show that, in particular, climate change: (1) raises difficult questions about the status of aesthetic judgements about the future, or ‘future aesthetics’; and (2) puts into relief some challenging issues at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics. I maintain that we can rely on aesthetic predictions to enable us to grasp, in some sense, aesthetic value in environments affected by climate change and, through a discussion of three hypothetical cases, I argue that although moral considerations will press on aesthetic judgements, aesthetic value will not necessarily be trumped by them.
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Brady, E. (2017). Climate change and future aesthetics. In Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisist (pp. 201–220). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55124-5_10
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