Here is the first video from the Knowledge and Models in Climate Science: Philosophical, Historical & Scientific Perspectives Conference at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, October 24-26, 2014.
James Fleming (Colby College, Science, Technology and Society)
Abstract: I present case studies of “shape-shifting nouns” in the history of dynamic climatology and identify some overarching trends of possible relevance to current and ongoing discussions. What can we know about the history of climate science and how do we know it? If epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified belief, where does the history of natural knowledge fit in? Whose knowledge counts? Of what? When?
