Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)979-990
Number of pages12
JournalPhilosophy of Science
Volume87
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020

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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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Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets. / Frisch, Mathias.
In: Philosophy of Science, Vol. 87, No. 5, 12.2020, p. 979-990.

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Frisch M. Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets. Philosophy of Science. 2020 Dec;87(5):979-990. doi: 10.1086/710538
Frisch, Mathias. / Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets. In: Philosophy of Science. 2020 ; Vol. 87, No. 5. pp. 979-990.
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