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Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Mathias Frisch
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Abstract

Using climate policy debates as a case study, I argue that a certain response to the argument from inductive risk, the hedging defense, runs afoul of a reasonable ethical principle: the no-passing-the-buck principle according to which scientists ought to offer their scientific judgment when such judgment is both possible and needed in public policy debates.

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Values, Policy, and Social Epistemology
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 87 , Issue 5: PSA 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part II Symposia Papers , December 2020 , pp. 979 - 990
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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