Publications

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Peer-reviewed articles in journals (selection)

Düvel, E., and García-Portela, L. (2026) Fairness in emissions accounting: a moral responsibility account. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (online first)

Scherz, A., & García-Portela, L. (2025). Climate scientists as trustees in public reason: the legitimacy of political institutions amid non-epistemic values. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1–26.

García-Portela, L. and Düvel, E. (2024) The Ethics of Loss and Damage, WIREs Climate Change [online first]

García-Portela, L. (2024) A minimal capabilities-based approach for loss and damage. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities Vol. 25, N1

García-Portela, L and Maraun, D. (2023) Overstating the efects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 13:17

García-Portela, L (2023) Backward-looking principles of climate justice: the unjustified move from the Polluter Pays Principle to the Beneficiary Pays Principle. Res Publica: a journal of moral, legal and social philosophy.

García-Portela, L (2022) Can Consumption-Based Emissions Accounting solve the problem of historical emissions? Some skeptical remarks. Ethics, Policy and the Environment. 25 (3). [Response by Torpman, O. (2022)]

Garcia-Portela, L. (2020) Moral Responsibility for Climate Change Loss and Damage: A response to the Excusable Ignorance Objection. Teorema. International Journal of Philosophy , 39 (1) :7-24 [Essay Prize SWIP-Analytic Spain]

Garcia-Portela, L. (2019) Individual Compensatory Duties for Historical Emissions and the Dead-Polluters Objection, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics , 32

Garcia-Portela, L. (2019) Two Mutually Exclusive Concepts of Harm? Retrospective and Structural Wrongful Harm at the Bases of a Compensatory-Based Approach for Loss and Damage. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 21 (3) [Response by Boran, I (2019)]

Encyclopedia Entries

García-Portela, L. (2022) ‘Ética y generaciones futuras’. Enciclopedia de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica.

Book chapters (selection)

Garcia-Portela, L. (2024) “Daño climático” en Gómez Ramos, A., y Velasco Arias, G. Atlas político de emociones, Trotta, Madrid.

Garcia-Portela, L. (2017) “El papel de las emisiones histórica en la justicia climática: el pensamiento de Lukas Meyer” en Truconne Borgogno, S. (comp.) Justicia intergeneracional. Ensayos desde el pensamiento de Lukas H. Meyer, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

Garcia-Portela, L. (2016) “El debate en torno a la fundamentación filosófica de nuestra responsabilidad hacia las generaciones futuras y sus consecuencias para la democracia verde”, en Valencia, A. (ed.) Democracia verde, Porrúa.

*Before starting publishing in English, I also wrote some pieces in Spanish on history of philosophy (e.g., on Thomas Hobbes and María Zambrano) and philosophy of history (esp. on the American Revolution).

You can find these and other papers on Philpeople, Academia.edu, Google Scholar and Research Gate. However, this webpage contains the most up-to-date information about me and my work.