Article ID: CBB045218791

An Interpretation of Value Change: A Philosophical Disquisition of Climate Change and Energy Transition Debate (May 2022)

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Anna Melnyk (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 47
Issue: 3
Pages: 404-428


Publication Date: May 2022
Edition Details: Thematic Collection: Value change in energy systems
Language: English

Changing values may give rise to intergenerational conflicts, like in the ongoing climate change and energy transition debate. This essay focuses on the interpretative question of how this value change can best be understood. To elucidate the interpretation of value change, two philosophical perspectives on value are introduced: Berlin’s value pluralism and Dworkin’s interpretivism. While both authors do not explicitly discuss value change, I argue that their perspectives can be used for interpreting value change in the case of climate change and the energy transition. I claim that Berlin’s pluralistic account of value would understand the value change as an intergenerational conflict and therefore provide a too narrow and static ground for understanding ongoing value change. Instead, by exploring Dworkin’s standpoint in moral epistemology, this essay distills a more encompassing perspective on how values may relate, converge, overlap, and change, fulfilling their functions in the course of climate change and energy transition. This perspective is further detailed by taking inspiration from Shue’s work on the (re)interpretation of equity in the climate change debate. I argue that the resulting perspective allows us to see value change as a gradual process rather than as a clash between generations and their values.

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Article Ibo van de Poel; Behnam Taebi (May 2022) Value Change in Energy Systems. Science, Technology and Human Values (pp. 371-379). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gramelsberger, Gabriele
James Stewart
Andreas Folkers
Sven Opitz
Havlick, David G.
Shana Lee Hirsch
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Climate change
Values (philosophy)
Sustainability
energy transition
Restoration ecology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Congo
Columbia River
Nigeria
United States
South Africa
Colorado (U.S.)
Institutions
International Council for Science
Future Earth. Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network
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