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SUMMARY:The social epistemology of the International Panel on Climate Chan
 ge - Stephen John (HPS\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Vashka dos Remedios
DESCRIPTION:The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) employs exper
 t scientists to collate and synthesise scientific research on the causes\,
  nature and\nlikely effects of climate change. Many non-experts refuse to 
 defer to the IPCC's claims\, often on political grounds. This paper argues
  that such\npolitically-motivated refusal to defer to the IPCC is unjustif
 iable. This conclusion may seem rather obvious\, but I hope to show that i
 t is not\, because the obvious premise one might appeal to in justifying t
 hat conclusion - that politically-motivated refusals to defer to expert te
 stimony are never justifiable - is false. I suggest that these complexitie
 s have an important bearing on the problem of inductive risk\nand\, hence\
 , the proper role of values in science.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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