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The Crisis of the Geosciences: a Husserlian and Latourian Analysis of the Lack of Faith in Climate Science and our Responses to Climate Change

Short, Brenden Garrett
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1712581535597237

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2024, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
Amid the current climate crisis and the scientific consensus on its anthropogenic causes, one task left to the humanities and social sciences is to understand why we humans have failed to effectively act on addressing the issue. I intend to show how the work of Edmund Husserl and Bruno Latour is especially relevant to this topic, bringing their ideas to bear on questions of the climate crisis and the lack of faith in science seen in certain populations in America. I will argue that the crisis of the sciences which Husserl identifies in his last work highlights the Modernist roots of our situation where we separate ourselves from nature, which sheds light on our lack of action. I will augment this analysis with Latour’s studies of science and climate change, as well as work done on the phenomenon of lack of faith in science in America, to help furnish a better understanding of the global predicament we are in.
Gina Zavota (Advisor)
David Kaplan (Committee Member)
Deborah Barnbaum (Committee Member)
Matthew Coate (Committee Member)
127 p.
Environmental Philosophy; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science
Edmund Husserl; Bruno Latour; Naomi Oreskes; Climate Change; Climate Crisis; Anthropocene; Phenomenology; Science Studies; Cultural Phenomenology; Faith in Science; Trust in Science

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  • Short, B. G. (2024). The Crisis of the Geosciences: a Husserlian and Latourian Analysis of the Lack of Faith in Climate Science and our Responses to Climate Change [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1712581535597237

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Short, Brenden. The Crisis of the Geosciences: a Husserlian and Latourian Analysis of the Lack of Faith in Climate Science and our Responses to Climate Change. 2024. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1712581535597237.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Short, Brenden. "The Crisis of the Geosciences: a Husserlian and Latourian Analysis of the Lack of Faith in Climate Science and our Responses to Climate Change." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1712581535597237

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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