Natural hazard models are vital for all phases of risk assessment and disaster management.
However, the high number of uncertainties inherent to these models is highly challenging for …

Climate model projections are used to inform policy decisions and constitute a major focus
of climate research. Confidence in climate projections relies on the adequacy of climate …

Scientific objectivity is a characteristic of scientific claims, methods and results. It expresses
the idea that the claims, methods and results of science are not, or should not be influenced …

Simple idealized models seem to provide more understanding than opaque, complex, and
hyper-realistic models. However, an increasing number of scientists are going in the …

While it is widely acknowledged that science is not “free” of non-epistemic values, there is
disagreement about the roles that values can appropriately play. Several have argued that …

Study of the social dimensions of scientific knowledge encompasses the effects of scientific
research on human life and social relations, the effects of social relations and values on …

Contemporary general circulation models (GCMs) and Earth system models (ESMs) are
developed by a large number of modeling groups globally. They use a wide range of …

216 EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF INDUCTIVE RISK depends upon whether the evidence is
sufficiently strong. But whether the evidence is sufficiently strong depends, according to …

Philosophical work on values in science is held back by widespread ambiguity about how
values bear on scientific choices. Here, I disambiguate several ways in which a choice can …

The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed
independently of science, has been under fire by philosophers of science for decades …