An Interpretation of Value Change
A Philosophical Disquisition of Climate Change and Energy Transition Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11261417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Melnyk (0000-0003-2852-8520, Delft University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 404-428 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01622439211068040 |
| OpenAlex | W4200570367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Changing values may give rise to intergenerational conflicts, like in the ongoing climate change and energy transition debate. This essay focuses on the interpretative question of how this value change can best be understood. To elucidate the interpretation of value change, two philosophical perspectives on value are introduced: Berlin’s value pluralism and Dworkin’s interpretivism. While both authors do not explicitly discuss value change, I argue that their perspectives can be used for interpreting value change in the case of climate change and the energy transition. I claim that Berlin’s pluralistic account of value would understand the value change as an intergenerational conflict and therefore provide a too narrow and static ground for understanding ongoing value change. Instead, by exploring Dworkin’s standpoint in moral epistemology, this essay distills a more encompassing perspective on how values may relate, converge, overlap, and change, fulfilling their functions in the course of climate change and energy transition. This perspective is further detailed by taking inspiration from Shue’s work on the (re)interpretation of equity in the climate change debate. I argue that the resulting perspective allows us to see value change as a gradual process rather than as a clash between generations and their values
Climate change · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Equity (law · Interpretation (philosophy · Perspective (graphical · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Value theory · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Liberty
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Justice for Hedgehogs
Energy Ethics
Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change
Anticipating the Interaction between Technology and Morality
Justice for Hedgehogs, Conceptual Authenticity for Foxes
The Unity and Objectivity of Value
What are socially disruptive technologies
The Hedgehog and the Fox
This Changes Everything
Axiological futurism
Is There Progress in Morality
Objectivity and Truth
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
Global Environment and International Inequality
The moral consequences of economic growth
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |