Climate, God and Uncertainty

Front matter

A transcendental naturalistic approach beyond Bruno Latour

ARTHUR C. PETERSEN

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Part II: Themes in science and religion, applied to climate science and politics

6 Poetics and climate: modern myth and disenchantment 145 7 Authorities and climate: modern rationality and disbelief 177 8 Futures and climate: modern planning and disregard 211

9 Conclusion: A transcendental naturalistic approach beyond

Bruno Latour 251 References 265 Index 273

CONTENTS

List of figures and tables

Figure

7.1 Climate-change attribution figure in the ‘Summary for Policymakers’ of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, in which model simulations (bands) are compared with measured changes (line). Source: IPCC (2001, 14, Figure 4). 201

Tables

4.1 Rickert’s scheme of six domains (plus two intermediate domains) of value, originally published as a two-page, fold-out table at the back of Rickert (1921). Source: Staiti

([2013] 2018, 30), adapted. 100 4.2 Latour’s scheme of 14 domains (plus one pseudo-domain) of value. 107

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