The Dismal Shape of Things to Come?

Evaluating Climate Economics as a Guide to Democratic Decision-making  

Date: 7-8.09.2023

Venue: Gamla Biskopshuset, Biskopsgatan 1, 223 62 Lund

Aim of Workshop: The main goal of our workshop is to bring together various perspectives that can contribute to a critical reflection of climate economics in its role in advising policy. Our primary motivation here is the following: While various scholarly traditions and research programs have much to contribute to this topic, the respective debates proceed largely independently of each other. Hence, we would like to create a forum that facilitates exchange between these various pieces of literature (for more details see here).

Speakers: 

  • Johanna Thoma (LSE), philosopher of economics who works on democracy and measurement  
  • Mathias Frisch (Hannover), philosopher of science who works on values and uncertainty in the context of IAMs 
  • Michiru Nagatsu (Helsinki), philosopher of economics who works on economics and the limits of growth 
  • Tyler DesRoches (Arizona State), philosopher of economics who works on human well-being and sustainability 
  • Eric Winsberg (Cambridge/South Florida), philosopher of science who works on complex modeling and political decision-making 
  • Julie Jebeile (Bern/CNRM), philosopher of science who works on values and objectivity in the context of the IPCC, as well as on climate change adaptation and feminism 
  • Beatrice Cherrier (Ecole Polytechnique), historian of economics who works on debates around time discounting in environmental economics
  • Ahmad Elabbar (Cambridge), philosopher of science who works on epistemic justice in the context of the IPCC and other scientific advisory panels 
  • David Ludwig (Wageningen), philosopher who works on the intersection of science and global justice
  • Vanessa Schweizer (Waterloo), philosopher who works on problems of cross-disciplinary knowledge integration and the design of scenarios for the human dimensions of large-scale environmental change
  • Domininc Lenzi (Twente), philosopher who works on ethics and political philosophy in the Anthropocene, especially related to climate justice, deliberative democracy, environmental values and valuation, and biodiversity conservation
  • Henrik ThorĂ©n (Lund), philosopher of science who works on various theoretical and methodological issues in fields such as sustainability science, climate science, and the environmental sciences