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Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change

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Editors:
  1. Gianfranco Pellegrino

    1. Department of Political Science, Luiss University, Roma, Italy

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  2. Marcello Di Paola

    1. Department of Humanities, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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  • Provides an essential starting point for any researcher in the field
  • Gives a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of climate change
  • Examines the scientific accounts of climate change as well as its causes

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Table of contents (65 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Gianfranco Pellegrino
      Pages 3-19

  3. Climate Change, Science, and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Understanding Model-Based Uncertainty in Climate Science

      • Monica Ainhorn Morrison, Peter Lawrence
      Pages 23-43

    3. Implications of Model-Based Uncertainty: Scientific Responses and Philosophical Interpretations

      • Monica Ainhorn Morrison, Peter Lawrence
      Pages 45-66

    4. Climate Models and Robustness Analysis – Part I: Core Concepts and Premises

      • Margherita Harris, Roman Frigg
      Pages 67-88

    5. Climate Models and Robustness Analysis – Part II: The Justificatory Challenge

      • Margherita Harris, Roman Frigg
      Pages 89-103

    6. Abrupt Climate Changes and Tipping Points

      • Vincent Lam
      Pages 105-123

    7. Climate Research and Big Data

      • Benedikt Knüsel, Christoph Baumberger, Reto Knutti
      Pages 125-149

    8. Environmental Robots and Climate Action

      • Justin Donhauser
      Pages 151-161

  4. Climate Change, Social Sciences, and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Climate Change Sociology: Perspectives and Dilemmas

      • Dario Padovan, Alessandra Sannella
      Pages 165-186

    3. Climate Change and Cultural Anthropology

      • Viola Di Tullio
      Pages 187-204

    4. Climate Change and Geography

      • Antonella Pietta
      Pages 205-225

    5. Climate Change and Urban Studies

      • Elena De Nictolis
      Pages 227-248

    6. Normative Challenges in Climate Change Economics

      • Kiran Chawla
      Pages 249-266

    7. Climate Change and Decision Theory

      • Andrea S. Asker, H. Orri Stefánsson
      Pages 267-286

    8. Climate Change and Psychology

      • James Andow, Aimie Hope
      Pages 287-305

    9. Climate Change and Legal Theory

      • Michele Carducci
      Pages 307-333
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Keywords

About this book

This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of many philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications. It extends to many branches of philosophy that are relevant to the understanding of the premises and implications of the impacts of climate change on human and nonhuman life on Earth. More specifically, the handbook examines the scientific accounts of climate change as well as its causes. It explores the tools offered by social sciences and humanities to study the societal premises and impacts of climate change as well as delving deeper into the ethical and political issues connected with and resulting from climate change. By doing so, it puts it all in an ecological and historical context. In addition, the book offers solutions to some important philosophical puzzles and problems, and indicates paths of interaction between philosophy and other disciplines.

The discussion about climate change andthe mitigation/adaptation policies spans many areas and levels – from abstract science and philosophy to current on-the-ground politics. However, climate change is also a great a philosophical puzzle. Indeed, its existential and practical relevance can be thought to largely derive from the philosophical complications it engenders. Climate change is applied philosophy par excellence. Preventing dangerous anthropogenic climate change needs very good philosophy applied to concrete and specific practical issues. Climate change is an area where scholars from very different provenances should cooperate on equal terms, having in view a common, and really important, purpose – contribute to preventing great burdens and even the extinction of humankind and the destruction of hospitable and valuable non-human nature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Luiss University, Roma, Italy

    Gianfranco Pellegrino

  • Department of Humanities, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Marcello Di Paola

About the editors

Gianfranco Pellegrino is an Associate Professor at LUISS Guido Carli Rome, where he teaches Political Philosophy. His interests are in the history of political thought (mainly Jeremy Bentham and Henry Sidgwick), distributive justice theories, migration, and environmental ethics. He wrote on global justice, the ethics of climate change and the Anthropocene. Among his publications: “Sidgwick and the Many Guises of the Good”, Philosophical Explorations, 2021; “Robust Responsibility for Climate Harms”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018, “Climate Refugees: A Case for Protection”, in G. Pellegrino e M. Di Paola, eds, Canned Heat. Theoretical and Practical Challenges of Global Climate Change, London/Delhi: Routledge, 2014.

Marcello Di Paola is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo. He works in environmental philosophy, particularly climate change, the Anthropocene, and the philosophy of plants. He writes on ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and the history of philosophy. Among his publications are Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment. Gardens of the Anthropocene (Springer, 2017) and the co-edited volume Plant Ethics: Concepts and Applications (Routledge, 2018).  

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