The Climate Change Debate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 1-10

3. Skepticism and Climate Change Skepticism

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 11-21

4. Experts in the Climate Change Debate

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 22-34

5. Climate Science As a Social Institution

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 35-51

6. Is Climate Science Really Science?

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 52-71

7. Climate Change and International Justice

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 72-81

8. Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 82-91

9. Climate Change and Personal Responsibility

   • David Coady, Richard Corry

   Pages 92-103

10. Conclusion

    • David Coady, Richard Corry

    Pages 104-109

11. Back Matter

    Pages 110-122

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Of the two kinds of philosophical questions – epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them.

• Climate change
• applied philosophy
• ethics
• epistemology
• philosophy of science
• skepticism
• political philosophy
• politics
• climate change
• philosophy
• scepticism

• University of Tasmania, Australia

  David Coady, Richard Corry

David Coady is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published on many topics in applied epistemology, including expertise, conspiracy theory, rumor, and the blogosphere. He is the editor of Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (2006), and the author of What To Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (2012). He has also published on metaphysics, philosophy of law, police ethics, the ethics of horror films, and the ethics of cricket.

Richard Corry is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published in the metaphysics of science and is editor, with Huw Price, of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality (2007).

Policies and ethics