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Humanities and sciences: making common cause
In September, the first cohort of Master’s students in environmental sciences and humanities will be starting at the University of East Anglia. According to Mike Hulme, Professor of climate change at...
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Tackling belief is the key to overcoming climate change scepticism
Adam Corner’s great piece today on Guardian.co.uk (via @alicebell) highlights the importance of belief in determining people’s position on climate change. For me, this opens up debate on a vital role...
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Public philosophy 2: experts and climate change
Once we accept the expert authority of climate science, we have no basis for supporting the minority position. So argues Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, in ‘The...
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‘Science’ and ‘arts’: should we play in each other’s fields a bit more?
I find science and maths a real draw. I often listen to The Life Scientific, Material World and More or Less podcasts ahead of more predictable favourites Making History, The Long View and History...
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