Applying Argument Analysis in Environmental Science and Ethics

Project Description

Methods of argument analysis provide an instrument to identify, reconstruct and evaluate individual arguments and their relations within complex argumentations. We apply methods of argument analysis in various fields of environmental science and decisions, typically in an interdisciplinary collaboration with researchs in the respective fields. Examples include inferences in the evaluation of climate models with respect to their adequacy for long-term projections, and arguments by analogy in the transfer of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research.

Contact

• Christoph Baumberger
• Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn

Publications

• Baumberger, Christoph; Knutti, Reto; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude. 2017. Building Confidence in Climate Model Projections: An Analysis of Inferences from Fit. WIREs Climate Change, e454. external pageOpen Accesscall_made. external pagedoi: 10.1002/wcc.454call_made.
• Adler, Carolina; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude; Breu, Thomas; Wiesmann, Urs; Pohl, Christian. 2017. Conceptualizing the transfer of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research. Sustain Sci. external pagedoi: 10.1007/s11625-017-0444-02call_made.
• Baumberger, Christoph; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude; Mühlebach, Deborah. 2015. Enhancing argumentative skills in environmental science education (PDF, 318 KB). GAIA 24/3, 206–208.