The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts

Author:   Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) ,  Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
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Pages:   288
Publication Date:   18 May 2018
Format:   Paperback
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In November 2015, the world powers came together in Paris with the hope of reaching an agreement on the most urgent issue of our time: climate change. While it was an historic moment that brought solutions within the realm of possibility, the obstacles to enacting real revolution were still many. Now, confronting these controversies head-on, two scholars use a series of ground-breaking arguments to frame the problem in human terms, showing us how vested interests have been able to control the conversation, tracing a line of reasoning that will break through the seemingly impenetrable barriers of political obfuscation. This watershed book evokes the battle cries of Naomi Klein and the exigency of Rachel Carson, laying the groundwork for a path to environmental salvation.

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Author:   Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) ,  Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   Liveright Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.223kg
ISBN:  

9781631494123


ISBN 10:   1631494120
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   18 May 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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...the extended fictional debate illuminates key scientific, social and political complexities, and humanizes an issue often perceived as abstract. -- Nature


Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller have reimagined the bitter, confusing debate over climate change as a series of clear-eyed, fair-minded dialogues between people who care about one another even when they disagree. Setting stereotypes and shouting aside, Kitcher and Keller set out the strongest, most nuanced versions of arguments on all sides. The science is lucidly explained; the politics is candidly confronted. This book models what a civil, civic conversation about the biggest issue facing the planet should look like.--Lorraine Daston, director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Full of information and organized as a series of intense, but civil, conversations, this volume models the kinds of interactions we need to have across our disagreements about climate change and what we can or ought to do to avoid its worst consequences.--Helen E. Longino, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University Their goal is to take the issue much further than most public conversations ever go, to present as many conflicts as possible, and then refute them . . . . Plenty of facts and valid points are presented here, and readers facing their own climate skeptics will appreciate being able to consult a source of ready-made arguments.--Colleen Mondor


...the extended fictional debate illuminates key scientific, social and political complexities, and humanizes an issue often perceived as abstract. -- Nature Philosophers of science Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller call for constructive discourse on climate change in their unusual exploration of this urgent, highly politicized issue. While coherently explaining the science, they use Socratic dialogue to explore differing viewpoints. -- Mary Craig, Highlights of the Season's Releases - Nature


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Philip Kitcher is a professor of philosophy at Columbia University and one of the most influential philosophers of science in the past two decades. Evelyn Fox Keller, a recipient of both MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, is a professor emerita at MIT.

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