The Climate Change Debate: An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry

by David Coady, R. Corry

Of the two kinds of philosophical questions – epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them.

Genres: Nonfiction

130 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

There is more than one author in the Goodreads catalog with this name. This entry is for David ^ Coady.

David Coady is Deputy Division Chief of the Expenditure Policy Division at the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) of the IMF. Prior to that, he was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and a lecturer in economics in the University of London. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1992.

Reviews

[Zoe Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I do not agree with everything it says, I consider this clear, dispassionate and thoughtful book to be a very valuable contribution to the climate change debate. It also constitutes a powerful demonstration of the social value of applied philosophy. It is therefore profoundly disappointing that the publisher has priced the book (which, at just over 100 pages, costs $45 for the Kindle edition) outside the reach of the lay reader.

Edit: the Kindle price is now, at the time of writing this edit, $35.90. Hopefully the downward pricing trend continues so that more people can afford to access this book.