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Moral and political philosophy, climate economics, bioethics Author of *The Social Cost of Carbon* (OUP 2025) | Faculty @UWMadison, posting in personal capacity Likes: Boston Celtics ☘️, bouldering, ebikes, funding public ed. paulkelleher.net

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · Jan 14

Those with institutional access to Oxford Academic/Oxford Scholarship Online can now access an HTML version of my book here: academic.oup.com/book/59438

Looks like the dead-tree version will be available on/by March 4.

The Social Cost of Carbon: Ethics and the Limits of Climate Change Economics

Abstract. Climate change economists have called it “the most important number you have never heard of” and the “holy grail of climate economic analysis.” I

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 20h

I once enthusiastically informed my grandmother of this new innovation in clothing: button-fly jeans.

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 20h

TACO (Trump’s alsoran campaign: Outstanding)

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

Motion to call it a Cafe

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

Not uncontroversial if you met the mother of your children while getting your toe seen at the urgent care

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

I have cordyceps of a plan

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

In my DMs I refer to you as “nathan shift-key Nathan”

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · Dec 13

My fave Kant factoid? Legend has it that Disciplined Kant took the same walk at the same time each day and townsfolk set their clocks by him. In fact, Kant played afternoon billiards with his pal & then fell asleep in an easy chair. Pal's servant would wake him & send him home at same time each day.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

A good occasion to post one of my favorite vids on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Do...

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

Impromptu and pitch perfect. Watch this.

Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 1d

Yesterday in awkward impromptu zoom interviews from a hotel room www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4m...

Trump orders National Guard troops to Chicago area | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

people who criticize moral philosophy for trafficking in outlandish thought experiments are looking pretty foolish right now

Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

Give Nobel Peace Prize to guy so he doesn’t attack your country

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a headline
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 1d

Miller. The malicious and unaccountable force is Miller.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

6. I have talked a lot before about how Trump has dementia and how growing public awareness of his disease could make him vulnerable to the allegation that he’s not really in charge – that malicious and unaccountable forces are pulling his strings.

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For independent voters, it’s not Project 2025. It's Puppet 2025

Make them see the old man isn’t in charge anymore.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

we gonna love this kid

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

Thanks for posting here Sean. Looking forward to a fun season.

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

(Meant Umpire John Roberts, not David)

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

Robots > Roberts

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

It's beyond time for the nation to be talking about the shadow presidency.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

back to back posts in my timeline 🤝

First post:

Aaron Ruparv
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Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social • 1h
Book proofs are here
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Epistemic
Injustice

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

Mt. Desert Island

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

I wondered whether he's comparing Medicaid reimbursement rates (for the "pregnant woman citizen") with ACA exchange plan reimbursement rates (for the undocumented immigrant that the GOP claims---falsely---will get ACA subsidies under Dem-demanded changes to OBBB.)

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

You and a hacker combined?

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

they basically did this already this year to overturn California's car emissions requirements.

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

only thing worse is writing a trade book

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

Cool. Mine was on the difference, in Rawlsian political liberalism, between "legitimacy in advocacy" (i.e. what reasons PL permits one to offer in public justification) and "legitimacy in enactment" (i.e. what actually policies it's ethically legit to impose at a given time).

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2d

I assume you don't mean it took you 20 years to publish *anything* from your diss. That's my situation. I think the time has passed.