기후과학의 철학적 쟁점: 성공적 융합 연구를 위한 인식론적 조건과 윤리적 함의

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The paper examines two philosophical topics relating to climate science, namely the epistemological conditions for successful interdisciplinary research and ethical implications immanent in climate research. I describe first how climate science has been established its identity from disparate approaches to various aspects of climate, emphasizing the role of crucial empirical and theoretical tools such as Keeling Curve and General Circulation Model. The epistemological conditions for successful interdisciplinary research are either that the target phenomena are too complicated to be explained or understood within a single theoretical framework/discipline, or that the satisfactory solution to a crucial challenge has to cover a number of distinct areas of expertise. I claim that climate science satisfies these conditions, and provide an exemplar of successful interdisciplinary research. Then I argue that we need to re-evaluate some core assumptions of climate science including those of cost-benefit analysis in order to make it ethically more justifiable. Finally, I briefly discuss a few shortcomings of climate science research by Korean scholars, and try to offer some suggestions to further development.

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