Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism

The analysis in this essay is indebted to the analysis of climate change scepticism developed in Naomi Oreskes’s and Eric Conway’s Merchants of Doubt where they expose the vested interests that produce a degree of doubt with respect to climate change science. The argument addresses the appeal to an...

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Main Author: Lorraine Code
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Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-01-01
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description The analysis in this essay is indebted to the analysis of climate change scepticism developed in Naomi Oreskes’s and Eric Conway’s Merchants of Doubt where they expose the vested interests that produce a degree of doubt with respect to climate change science. The argument addresses the appeal to an inflated conception of human freedom – Liberty – that is allegedly threatened by injunctions to control pollution in the interests of ecologically conscious behaviour across a range of human practices of consumption. The essay draws on and advocates rethinking issues about epistemic responsibility and testimonial injustice in working toward developing ecologically informed climate change advocacy. El análisis de este ensayo está influenciado por el análisis sobre escepticismo ante el cambio climático desarrollado por Naomi Oreskes y Eric Conway en Merchants of Doubt, donde exponen los intereses creados, que producen un grado de duda en relación a la ciencia del cambio climático. El argumento se refiere a la apelación a una concepción exagerada de la libertad humana - la Libertad - , presuntamente amenazada por medidas cautelares para controlar la contaminación en los intereses de la conducta ecológicamente consciente a través de toda una gama de prácticas humanas de consumo. El ensayo se basa en, y aboga por repensar las cuestiones acerca de la responsabilidad epistémica y defiende replantear las cuestiones acerca de la responsabilidad epistémica e injusticia testimonial en el trabajo hacia el desarrollo ecológicamente informado de la defensa del cambio climático. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2247830
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spelling doaj-art-46a581ae849245a9addd7cfe49993a322024-11-25T15:08:29ZengOñati International Institute for the Sociology of LawOñati Socio-Legal Series2079-59712013-01-0135Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change ScepticismLorraine Code0York University (Toronto) The analysis in this essay is indebted to the analysis of climate change scepticism developed in Naomi Oreskes’s and Eric Conway’s Merchants of Doubt where they expose the vested interests that produce a degree of doubt with respect to climate change science. The argument addresses the appeal to an inflated conception of human freedom – Liberty – that is allegedly threatened by injunctions to control pollution in the interests of ecologically conscious behaviour across a range of human practices of consumption. The essay draws on and advocates rethinking issues about epistemic responsibility and testimonial injustice in working toward developing ecologically informed climate change advocacy. El análisis de este ensayo está influenciado por el análisis sobre escepticismo ante el cambio climático desarrollado por Naomi Oreskes y Eric Conway en Merchants of Doubt, donde exponen los intereses creados, que producen un grado de duda en relación a la ciencia del cambio climático. El argumento se refiere a la apelación a una concepción exagerada de la libertad humana - la Libertad - , presuntamente amenazada por medidas cautelares para controlar la contaminación en los intereses de la conducta ecológicamente consciente a través de toda una gama de prácticas humanas de consumo. El ensayo se basa en, y aboga por repensar las cuestiones acerca de la responsabilidad epistémica y defiende replantear las cuestiones acerca de la responsabilidad epistémica e injusticia testimonial en el trabajo hacia el desarrollo ecológicamente informado de la defensa del cambio climático. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2247830 https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/252Ecological thinkersclimate change scepticssubjectivitytestimonyepistemic responsibility. Pensadores ecológicosescépticos del cambio climático
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Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Ecological thinkers
climate change sceptics
subjectivity
testimony
epistemic responsibility. Pensadores ecológicos
escépticos del cambio climático
title Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
title_full Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
title_fullStr Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
title_full_unstemmed Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
title_short Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
title_sort doubt and denial epistemic responsibility meets climate change scepticism
topic Ecological thinkers
climate change sceptics
subjectivity
testimony
epistemic responsibility. Pensadores ecológicos
escépticos del cambio climático
url https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/252
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