Uncertainties, Values, and Climate Targets

Philosophy of Science 87 (5):979-990 (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-...

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