Christoph Baumberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5655912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Baumberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Baumberger |
| SIGNATURE | BAUMBERGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0631-1662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Communication of Value Judgements and its Effects on Climate Scientists’ Perceived Trustworthiness
Scientists are called upon by policymakers to provide recommendations on how to address climate change. It has been argued that as policy advisors, scientists can legitimately make instrumental value judgements (recommendations based on defined policy goals), but not categorical value judgements (challenge and/or redefine established policy goals), and that to do otherwise is to overstep in ways that may threaten their perceived trustworthiness. …
Ethische Entscheidungsfindung
Ethik boomt: Sie soll uns in Zukunft vor Finanzkrisen bewahren, das mangelnde Wertebewusstsein unserer Gesellschaft ausbügeln und für mehr Gerechtigkeit sorgen. Der Boom wirft aber auch kritische Fragen auf: Wie lässt sich über Ethik sprechen, ohne Moral zu predigen? Wie entscheidet man ethische Konflikte? Gibt es Wissen und Wahrheit in der Ethik? Wie stehen Recht und Ethik zueinander? Die Autoren zeigen mit ihrem Schema ethischer Entscheidungsfi…
Reflective equilibrium and understanding
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Understanding climate phenomena with data-driven models
In climate science, climate models are one of the main tools for understanding phenomena. Here, we develop a framework to assess the fitness of a climate model for providing understanding. The framework is based on three dimensions: representational accuracy, representational depth, and graspability. We show that this framework does justice to the intuition that classical process-based climate models give understanding of phenomena. While simple …
Building confidence in climate model projections
Climate model projections are used to inform policy decisions and constitute a major focus of climate research. Confidence in climate projections relies on the adequacy of climate models for those projections. The question of how to argue for the adequacy of models for climate projections has not gotten sufficient attention in the climate modeling community. The most common way to evaluate a climate model is to assess in a quantitative way degree…
Enhancing Argumentative Skills in Environmental Science Education
Dealing with complex problems often requires advanced argumentative skills. We sketch how to reconstruct and evaluate arguments and outline how fostering argumentative skills is implemented in the Environmental Sciences curriculum at the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences (D-USYS)of ETH Zurich
From Logic to Art
Identities of Artefacts
In non‐philosophical discourse, “identity” is often used when the specific character of artefacts is described or evaluated. We argue that this usage of “identity” can be explicated as referring to the symbol properties of artefacts as they are conceptualized in the symbol theory of Goodman and Elgin. This explication is backed by an analysis of various uses of “identity”. The explicandum clearly differs from the concepts of numerical identity, q…
Five Ways of (not) Defining Exemplification
The notion of exemplification is essential for Goodman's theory of symbols. But Goodman's account of exemplification has been criticized as unclear and inadequate. He points out two conditions for an object x exemplifying a label y: (C1) y denotes x and (C2) x refers to y. While (C1) is uncontroversial, (C2) raises the question of how "refers to" should be interpreted. This problem is intertwined with three further questions that consequently sho…
Reflective equilibrium and understanding
Building confidence in climate model projections
Climate model projections are used to inform policy decisions and constitute a major focus of climate research. Confidence in climate projections relies on the adequacy of climate models for those projections. The question of how to argue for the adequacy of models for climate projections has not gotten sufficient attention in the climate modeling community. The most common way to evaluate a climate model is to assess in a quantitative way degree…
Understanding climate phenomena with data-driven models
In climate science, climate models are one of the main tools for understanding phenomena. Here, we develop a framework to assess the fitness of a climate model for providing understanding. The framework is based on three dimensions: representational accuracy, representational depth, and graspability. We show that this framework does justice to the intuition that classical process-based climate models give understanding of phenomena. While simple …
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Five Ways of (not) Defining Exemplification
The notion of exemplification is essential for Goodman's theory of symbols. But Goodman's account of exemplification has been criticized as unclear and inadequate. He points out two conditions for an object x exemplifying a label y: (C1) y denotes x and (C2) x refers to y. While (C1) is uncontroversial, (C2) raises the question of how "refers to" should be interpreted. This problem is intertwined with three further questions that consequently sho…
Identities of Artefacts
In non‐philosophical discourse, “identity” is often used when the specific character of artefacts is described or evaluated. We argue that this usage of “identity” can be explicated as referring to the symbol properties of artefacts as they are conceptualized in the symbol theory of Goodman and Elgin. This explication is backed by an analysis of various uses of “identity”. The explicandum clearly differs from the concepts of numerical identity, q…
From Logic to Art
Enhancing Argumentative Skills in Environmental Science Education
Dealing with complex problems often requires advanced argumentative skills. We sketch how to reconstruct and evaluate arguments and outline how fostering argumentative skills is implemented in the Environmental Sciences curriculum at the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences (D-USYS)of ETH Zurich
Building confidence in climate model projections
Climate model projections are used to inform policy decisions and constitute a major focus of climate research. Confidence in climate projections relies on the adequacy of climate models for those projections. The question of how to argue for the adequacy of models for climate projections has not gotten sufficient attention in the climate modeling community. The most common way to evaluate a climate model is to assess in a quantitative way degree…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Understanding climate phenomena with data-driven models
In climate science, climate models are one of the main tools for understanding phenomena. Here, we develop a framework to assess the fitness of a climate model for providing understanding. The framework is based on three dimensions: representational accuracy, representational depth, and graspability. We show that this framework does justice to the intuition that classical process-based climate models give understanding of phenomena. While simple …
Ethische Entscheidungsfindung
Ethik boomt: Sie soll uns in Zukunft vor Finanzkrisen bewahren, das mangelnde Wertebewusstsein unserer Gesellschaft ausbügeln und für mehr Gerechtigkeit sorgen. Der Boom wirft aber auch kritische Fragen auf: Wie lässt sich über Ethik sprechen, ohne Moral zu predigen? Wie entscheidet man ethische Konflikte? Gibt es Wissen und Wahrheit in der Ethik? Wie stehen Recht und Ethik zueinander? Die Autoren zeigen mit ihrem Schema ethischer Entscheidungsfi…
Reflective equilibrium and understanding
The Communication of Value Judgements and its Effects on Climate Scientists’ Perceived Trustworthiness
Scientists are called upon by policymakers to provide recommendations on how to address climate change. It has been argued that as policy advisors, scientists can legitimately make instrumental value judgements (recommendations based on defined policy goals), but not categorical value judgements (challenge and/or redefine established policy goals), and that to do otherwise is to overstep in ways that may threaten their perceived trustworthiness. …
Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Climate model (3 works) · Climate science (3 works) · Climate variability and models (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)