Climate Change Data Portal
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-024-04593-0 |
| Expertise, moral subversion, and climate deregulation | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| ISSN | 0039-7857 |
| EISSN | 1573-0964 |
| 起始页码 | 203 |
| 结束页码 | 5 |
| 卷号 | 203期号:5 |
| 英文摘要 | The weaponizing of scientific expertise to oppose regulation has been extensively studied. However, the relevant studies, belonging to the emerging discipline of agnotology, remain focused on the analysis of empirical corruption: of misinformation, doubt mongering, and other practices that cynically deploy expertise to render audiences ignorant of empirical facts. This paper explores the wrongful deployment of expertise beyond empirical corruption. To do so, I develop a broader framework of morally subversive expertise, building on recent work in political philosophy (Howard, 2016). Expertise is subversive if it sets up its audience to fail morally, either intentionally or negligently. I distinguish three modes of subversive expertise: empirical subversion (the focus of agnotology), normative subversion and motivational subversion. Drawing on these distinctions, I offer a revisionary account of the Trump Administration's regulatory science as a case study. I show that the Trump Administration's use of expertise to dismantle climate regulation, contra the standard charge, cannot be explained using the resources of agnotology alone: the Administration produced highly reliable climate assessments, detailing the risks of climate change, candidly admitting the harms of its proposed policies, and still successfully deployed these findings to justify massive climate deregulation. The lesson of the analysis is that dismissing the expertise that underpins climate deregulation as empirically corrupt 'anti-science' both obscures its actual role in the politics of climate change and understates its wrongfulness: it misses the breadth of the assault on moral agency that sustains climate injustice. |
| 英文关键词 | Climate change; Climate deregulation; Morally subversive expertise; Agnotology; Trump Administration; Vehicle emissions; Political philosophy of science |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | History & Philosophy of Science ; Philosophy |
| WOS类目 | History & Philosophy Of Science ; Philosophy |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001211486600004 |
| 来源期刊 | SYNTHESE
 |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/309863 |
| 作者单位 | University of Cambridge |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | . Expertise, moral subversion, and climate deregulation[J],2024,203(5). |
| APA | (2024).Expertise, moral subversion, and climate deregulation.SYNTHESE,203(5). |
| MLA | "Expertise, moral subversion, and climate deregulation".SYNTHESE 203.5(2024). |
| 条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 | |||||
| 个性服务 |
| 推荐该条目 |
| 保存到收藏夹 |
| 导出为Endnote文件 |
| 谷歌学术 |
| 谷歌学术中相似的文章 |
| 百度学术 |
| 百度学术中相似的文章 |
| 必应学术 |
| 必应学术中相似的文章 |
| 相关权益政策 |
| 暂无数据 |
| 收藏/分享 |
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
