Truth and Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9783659381423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 116 str.

Simmonds Ricardo

Opis

What is climate change? Is it happening? What are the consequences to humans and the natural world? Ultimately these and many other questions beg the question: what is the truth about climate change? Truth and climate change is a philosophical dissertation that examines the concept of truth as it emerges in the context of climate change. It begins with a historical analysis of climate change development in our modern times, leading to the current definition of concepts. While a definition of climate change is complex involving aspects of both Nature and Culture, the meaning of truth in philosophy has been intensely debated throughout history to our present times. The second more technical part of the dissertation focuses on a specific pragmatist approach to climate change: the policy sciences. Through the philosophy of Habermas and Ratzinger this pragmatist conception of truth is challenged and a renewed approach to finding the truth on climate change is proposed.

O autorze

Ricardo Simmonds was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He has a Master of Science degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his studies focus on philosophy, theology and environmental issues. He is also a member of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae and in 2006 founded Creatio, a Catholic environmental non-profit.