What is Philosophy of the Geosciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4855261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miguel Ohnesorge (0000-0003-4583-4124, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Alexandra Watkins (0000-0003-0171-8738, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Aja Watkins |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12962 |
| OpenAlex | W4391611731 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 130 |
The philosophy of the geosciences is an emerging subfield in philosophy of science. Although past and present geoscientific disciplines differ substantially, we argue that they frequently face common epistemological and ethical problems. We survey several of these problems that have already attracted sustained philosophical interest, related to the use of measurements, data, and models to study relatively inaccessible target phenomena, responses to (epistemic) injustices, and the management of epistemic risks
Computer Science · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies · Geology
Inventing Temperature
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
Idealization and the Aims of Science
In defence of the value free ideal
True Enough
Values and Uncertainties in the Predictions of Global Climate Models
A Critical Assessment of Levins's The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology (1966)
Life History of a Fossil
The value of values in climate science
Mapping an Empire
Climate data empathy
Usability of climate information
Testing times
Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing
Using models to correct data
Explaining the apocalypse
Confirming (climate) change
Paleoclimate analogues and the threshold problem
Magnitude, moment, and measurement
Robustness reasoning in climate model comparisons
How incoherent measurement succeeds
Severe weather event attribution
The role of ‘complex’ empiricism in the debates about satellite data and climate models
Model robustness as a confirmatory virtue
Scaling procedures in climate science
Value management and model pluralism in climate science
Pluralizing measurement
A second look at the colors of the dinosaurs
How Accurate Is the Standard Second
When Climate Models Agree
The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes Value Judgments
Model Evaluation
Inductive Risk and Values in Science
Calibration, Coherence, and Consilience in Radiometric Measures of Geologic Time
The Role of Historical Science in Methodological Actualism
Evidence Enriched
Local Model-Data Symbiosis in Meteorology and Climate Science
Methodological and Epistemic Differences between Historical Science and Experimental Science
The Time of Data
On Measurement Scales
Confirmation and Robustness of Climate Models
Local Underdetermination in Historical Science
Measuring Time with Fossils
Towards a Taxonomy of the Model-Ladenness of Data
Prediction and Explanation in Historical Natural Science
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice
Epistemic Trust in Science
Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science
Waiting for the Anthropocene
The Fate of Knowledge
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past
Computer Simulation, Measurement, and Data Assimilation
How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back
The Planet
The Climate of History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |