Discussing the connections between the philosophy of climate science, climate science and the moral problem of what to do (about it).

In this episode, I try to cover the 2 related problems:

1) The scientific problem: how does climate/ temperature work ? What explanatory theories do we have? What can we predict/ not predict ?

2) The moral problem: what should we do about it ?

I give an overview of what scientific theories we have, and how they are involved (both mainstraim and non-mainstraim) plus some of the "bad" ways to solving the problems (instrumentalism, bridging the is/ought gap)

Can we get out of recessions through government spending ?

Key concepts of Critical Rationalism:

What is the SSIA approach ?

Why that approach and not some other ?

To sell is to create knowledge about what actions influence your prospect's subjective valuation most optimally

Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. 

It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a periori reasoning, intuition or revelation

What is induction ?

In the philosophy of science, instrumentalism is the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but by how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.

Suppose you are a sales perons, and have a product that allows the customer to be 3% more efficient in his operations

Why is just tranferring that knowledge to the customer not enough to make him buy your product ?