Presentation of the project from the website
"The Epistemology of Climate Change research project investigates the philosophy of science dimensions of the climate and environmental challenges.
Its current focus includes the epistemic and methodological foundations of climate (and Earth system) science and modelling (including machine learning techniques), causal and explanatory strategies for extreme climate events, and tipping points in natural and social systems in the context of climate change."
The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is hosted at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Bern and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research.
Bibliography on the Philosophy of Climate Change
On their website, the group provides an annotated bibliography of the philosophical literature on climate change.
Group members
Autumn 2023 Seminar: Philosophical Perspectives for the Anthropocene
Organized by Vincent Lam and Georg Brun
Abstracts and Slides on the Website.
Mondays, 16:15-18:00, Room F-121, Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36 (in-person only)
- 2023-09-25 Introductory meeting
- 2023-10-02 Keith Smith (ETHZ): Operationalising complexity of societal tipping processes towards sustainability: Criticality and critical agency
- 2023-10-09 Julia Steinberger (UNIL): Living Well Within Planetary Limits, and Preparing Post-Growth Economies
- 2023-11-20 Kari De Pryck (UNIGE): The global science-diplomacy interface as trading zones. The case of the IPCC AR6
- 2023-11-27 Christian Arnsperger (UNIL): The Existentialist Anthropocene: Looking at Climate Change Blindness through the Lens of the Fear of Finitude, Fragility and Mortality
- 2023-12-04 Alexandre le Tiec (CNRS, Paris): Questioning Modernity in the Anthropocene
- 2023-12-11 Anne van Valkengoed (Groningen): Climate Anxiety: Mental Health Threat or an Outbreak of Sanity?