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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. More

Consult our publications and annotated bibliography.

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.

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News

The seminar on Philosophical issues in modeling climate change is ongoing.

Paper on interdisciplinarity and values

Our paper Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science (co-authored by Vincent Lam and Yannick Rousselot) has just been accepted in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

Talk at PSA 2024

Vincent Lam will give a talk on Climate extremes, physical storylines and process understanding in a symposium with Mathias Frisch, Dan Li and Lisa Lloyd at the 29th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in New Orleans (November 14-17, 2024).

Congratulations

Congratulations to Mason Majszak for his successful PhD defense!

Mason Majszak's PhD Defense & Workshop

Mason Majszak will be defending his PhD dissertation, titled: "Explicating Expert Judgment and its Role in Overcoming Uncertainty in Climate Science", on the 29th of February. His dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr. Vincent Lam and Prof. Dr. Stefan Brönnimann, with Prof. Dr. Ted Shepherd and Prof. Dr. Mathias Frisch serving as external examiners, Prof. Dr. Claus Beisbart will be the chair for the defense. The defense will take place at Mittelstrasse 43 - Room: 220, Bern, 3012, Switzerland, starting promptly at 17:00.

In conjunction with his PhD defense, Mason organizes a workshop on the philosophy of climate science, on the same day from 9:00 to 16:00, in the room 128 of the same building (Mittelstrasse 43).

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