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A Changing Climate for ScienceThe Pseudo in Our Science

A Changing Climate for Science: The Pseudo in Our Science [Lewis explores the ways in which scientific knowledge claims are legitimised through assessing their falsifiability. Beginning with an exploration of the construction and use of climate models, Lewis questions whether climate models are falsifiable. From a scientific perspective, knowledge that is not falsifiable is considered pseudo-science. By exploring the model tools used in climate science, Lewis problematises this traditional binary between science and pseudo-science. In response, Lewis poses a new way of evaluating knowledge claims, which are alternatively viewed on a spectrum and assessed by their usefulness. This spectrum of knowledge is applied to various climate sceptic claims around temperature records and wind power to demonstrate the value of Lewis’s reappraisal of knowledge claims.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Changing Climate for ScienceThe Pseudo in Our Science

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
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978-3-319-54264-5
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31 –53
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10.1007/978-3-319-54265-2_3
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Abstract

[Lewis explores the ways in which scientific knowledge claims are legitimised through assessing their falsifiability. Beginning with an exploration of the construction and use of climate models, Lewis questions whether climate models are falsifiable. From a scientific perspective, knowledge that is not falsifiable is considered pseudo-science. By exploring the model tools used in climate science, Lewis problematises this traditional binary between science and pseudo-science. In response, Lewis poses a new way of evaluating knowledge claims, which are alternatively viewed on a spectrum and assessed by their usefulness. This spectrum of knowledge is applied to various climate sceptic claims around temperature records and wind power to demonstrate the value of Lewis’s reappraisal of knowledge claims.]

Published: Apr 12, 2017

Keywords: Climate models; Falsifiability; Pseudo-science; Spectrum of knowledge; Legitimacy

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