The roles of climate models (workshop announcement)
The roles of
climate models: epistemic, ethical and socio-political perspectives
Place and time: IPO Building, Room 0.11,
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, 31st Oct - 1st
Nov 2013.
ABSTRACT:
Climate
models influence our understanding of climate change, its causes and its
future. They are a central technology of climate science. But they are also
sources of information for far-reaching policy decisions, sites of
multidisciplinary integration, products of distributed epistemic labor and much
more. As a consequence, climate models are of significant interest to scholars
in philosophy, history of science, and science and technology studies. This
workshop will bring together well-regarded scholars in these fields along with
established climate scientists to explore the epistemic, ethical and
socio-political roles that climate models play, their interactions and
implications.
EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS:
Judith Curry (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Gregor Betz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Suraje Dessai (University of Leeds)
Matthias Heymann (Aarhus University)
Rafaela Hillerbrand (Deflt University of
Technology)
Kristen Intemann (Montana State University)
Joyashree Roy (Jadavpur University)
Gavin Schmidt
(NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
David Sexton (the
MET Office)
Lenny Smith (London School of Economics)
Behnam Taebi (Delft University of Technology)
Erica Thompson (London School of Economics)
Erik van der Vleuten (Eindhoven University of
Technology)
Steven Yearley (University of Edinburgh)
PARTICIPATION:
We have
a limited amount of space for extra participants and some funding for PhD
students and Postdocs. If you would like to participate, please email Joel
Katzav, explaining your interest (j.k.katzav@tue.nl)
WEBSITE:
ORGANIZERS:
Joel Katzav (TU-Eindhoven), Wendy Parker (Durham) and
Johan Schot (TU-Eindhoven)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Support for the workshop is being provided by the
3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology, the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation
Studies and the Durham Centre for
Humanities Engaging Science and Society.