
The Climate Change Debate
An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 2013
Book
Hardback
VIII, 122 pages
978-1-137-32627-0 (ISBN)
Description
Of the two kinds of philosophical questions - epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them.
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Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
VIII, 122 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-32627-0 (9781137326270)
DOI
10.1057/9781137326287
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Persons
David Coady is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published on many topics in applied epistemology, including expertise, conspiracy theory, rumor, and the blogosphere. He is the editor of
Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate
(2006), and the author of
What To Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues
(2012). He has also published on metaphysics, philosophy of law, police ethics, the ethics of horror films, and the ethics of cricket.
Richard Corry is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published in the metaphysics of science and is editor, with Huw Price, of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality (2007).
Richard Corry is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published in the metaphysics of science and is editor, with Huw Price, of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality (2007).
Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Scepticism and Climate Change Scepticism 3. Experts in the Climate Change Debate 4. Climate Science as a Social Institution 5. Is Climate Science Really Science? 6. Climate Change and International Justice 7. Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice 8. Climate Change and Personal Responsibility 9. Conclusion References