Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues

ISBN 10: 3319650572 / ISBN 13: 9783319650579

Published by MacMillan, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319650572
• ISBN 13: 9783319650579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models. It engages with important topics directly affecting public policy, including the role of doubt, the use of satellite data, and the robustness of models.

Climate Modelling provides an early and significant contribution to the burgeoning Philosophy of Climate Science field that will help to shape our understanding of these topics in both philosophy and the wider scientific context. It offers insight into the reasons we should believe what climate models say about the world but addresses the issues that inform how reliable and well-confirmed these models are.

This book will be of interest to students of climate science, philosophy of science, and of particular relevance to policy makers who depend on the models that forecast future states of the climate and ocean in order to make public policy decisions.

About the Author

Elisabeth A. Lloyd is Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, USA. She specializes in the philosophy of climate science and the philosophy of evolutionary biology.

Eric Winsberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. His research interests include models and simulations, the philosophy of climate science, and the philosophy of physics, as well as general philosophy of science.