Material Type  

 학위논문

 

0016933356

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20240214101236

ISBN  

9798379709310

DDC  

501

Author  

Li, Dan.

Title/Author  

Frontiers in Climate Science: Inquiries Into Data and Methods = 气候科学前沿：数据和方法的探索 [electronic resource]

Publish Info  

[S.l.] : Indiana University., 2023

Publish Info  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Material Info  

1 online resource(149 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Lloyd, Elisabeth A.;Flammini, Alessandro.

학위논문주기  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약When climate scientists face research questions that lack paradigmatic solutions, they seek methods and explanations elsewhere. This dissertation is dedicated to offering analyses and improvement of foreign methods in climate science. I do so by first explicating the inferential strategies behind these methods and then articulating how we can improve these methods to answer certain questions. After a brief introduction to philosophy of climate science and the naturalistic tradition of philosophy of science, in Ch. 2, I analyze a "missing tree ring" debate regarding whether trees could miss the growth of their annual ring at a large scale due to extreme environmental conditions. In Ch. 3, I discuss machine learning as automated induction and show that various problems of induction anticipated by philosophers are concrete obstacles in machine learning practice and theory. I then explain how to select variables that can help make the inductive leap to mitigate these problems with examples from climate science. In Ch. 4, I study how scientists can meaningfully apply network modeling on climate data. Broadly, this dissertation makes two contributions. First, it aims to help scientists. Each case study is accompanied with methodological suggestions that can be implemented as scientific research projects. Second, this dissertation demonstrates doing "philosophy in science," that is "raising a scientific problem, using philosophical tools to address it, and making a scientific proposal" (Pradeu et al. 2021). Thinking through these cases, I show that ideas should run before computation. Thus, this dissertation is also a showcase of how philosophy and science can benefit from each other by paying attention to the reasoning behind each.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Philosophy of science.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Information science.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Climate change.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Paradigmati

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Climate science

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Foreign methods

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Philosophical tools

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Machine learning

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

Indiana University History and Philosophy of Science

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12B.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

Electronic Location and Access  

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소장사항  

202402 2024

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joongbu:639689