MCMP meets RCC: Values in Climate and Environmental Sciences

MCMP meets RCC: Values in Climate and Environmental Sciences

Saturday 10th February, 11.00 - 15.00
Ludwigstr. 31, ground floor, Room 021.

An interdisciplinary exchange between philosophers, historians of science, and those working within environmental humanities at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.

Program:

11.00 – 11.10: Welcome

11.15 – 12.00: Session 1: Aesthetics and Nature

• Floris Winckel: Climate Change and the Aesthetics of Scientists’ Engagement with Nature

• Laura Fumagalli: The Object of the Aesthetic Experience of Nature

12.10 – 12.55: Session 2: Values and Climate Science

• Carolina Granado Torres: Feminist Approaches to Objectivity and Value-Neutrality in Early International Assessments on Climate Change

• Gabriel Tarziu: Understanding Climate Change

13.05 – 13.50: Session 3: Climate Justice and Environmental Ethics

• Alex Mathie: Distributive Justice and the Climate Sink

• Lena Schlegel: Caring for Climate Change

14.00 – 14.45: Session 4: Values and Environmental Science

• Katie Kung: (Dis)Values of Invasive Species and Invasion Science

• Alice Murphy: “Framing” in Environmental Science

14.45 – 15.00: Wrap-Up

Please feel free to bring a packed lunch!