Climate Science, Values & Politics

The Philosophy Department at Durham University is hosting a one-day workshop on 'Climate Science, Values and Politics' on Thursday 28 May. The workshop is free but you must register and there are limited places.

Please see the website for further details and to register: https://climatesciencevaluespolitics.wordpress.com/

Papers to be presented include:

Stephen John –
“Assessing expert testimony about climate change: the irrelevance of sincerity”

Ian Kidd –
“Are Climate Change Deniers Epistemically Dogmatic?”

David Harker –
“Majority opinions, individual responsibility, and a place for epistemic taste within social epistemology”

Luke Elson
“Climate rationality and vagueness”

Erin Nash
“Can someone use their political values as a good reason not to accept the two basic claims of climate science? A response and extension to John (forthcoming)”

For more information please contact Erin Nash ([email protected]) or Ian James Kidd ([email protected]).