9 Feb
2023
9 Feb
'23
4:53 p.m.
Call for Applications (Deadline: March 15, 2023)
CLIMATE SCIENCE:
HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES
univie: summer school – Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC)
Vienna, July 10–19, 2023
Since 2001, the University of Vienna and the Institute Vienna Circle hold an annual summer
school dedicated to major current issues in the natural and the social sciences, their
history and philosophy. The title of the program reflects the heritage of the Vienna
Circle which promoted interdisciplinary and philosophical investigations based on solid
disciplinary knowledge.
Climate science, understood as an interdisciplinary field of study of the Earth’s climate
and the causes and effects of climate change, is clearly of central importance today. The
summer school will explore climate studies from a historical, philosophical, and
sociological perspective. Topics to be covered will include: foundations and
methodological issues relating to climate science, including various definitions of
climate change, different types of models of climate change, and the use of simulations;
further, historical roots and the development of climate science before and after the
“computer age”; finally, issues concerning science policy and the communication of
findings of climate science to a general public.
Topics will be selected reflecting participants’ interests and may include:
• Defining climate and climate change
• Evidence for climate change
• Modelling climate change: issues of confirmation and prediction
• Climate change and decision theory
• History of climate science as a research program
• Climate science in the public debate
Lecturers:
Candis Callison (University of British Columbia)
https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/
Deborah Coen (Yale University)
https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen
Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida)
http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/
The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in relevant
fields, but the organizers also encourage applications from undergraduates and people in
all stages of their career.
Application form and further information:
https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/
USS-SWC operates under the academic supervision of an International Program Committee of
distinguished philosophers, historians, and scientists. Its members represent the
scientific fields in the scope of USS-SWC, make contact to their home universities and
will also support acknowledgement of courses taken by the students. The annual summer
school is organised by the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna.
https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/
Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University (North
Carolina) here:
https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-…
Inquiries:
Administrator:
Zarah Weiss
Institute Vienna Circle
Alserstraße 23/32
1080 Wien
summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at
Scientific director:
Prof. Georg Schiemer
Institute Vienna Circle
Alserstraße 23/32
1080 Wien
georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at