Research and Publications
Central Projects
Climate Models and Paleoclimatology
The central project of my dissertation was to develop an epistemic account of paleoclimatology and paleoclimate simulation, exploring the relationship between paleoclimatology and contemporary climate science. I explain how it is that 21st century climate simulations rely on historical climate science. More recent work extends this project by more carefully considering the role of paleoclimate analogues in bolstering forward looking simulations.
Proxy Measurement
I have also worked to analyze proxy measurement in paleoclimatology, highlighting specific challenges faced in the use of historical proxies and how it is that historical scientists overcome these challenges. An application of this analysis leads directly to a methodological critique of some proxy methods currently used in paleoclimatology, while highlighting more generally how scientists can work to improve the reliability of proxy measures.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
"Modeling the Measurement of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Measurement"
Front. Clim. 5:1283333. (2024) doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1283333
"Is Model-Based Science a kind of Historical Science?"
Perspectives on Science. (Forthcoming)
"Paleoclimate analogues and the threshold problem"
Synthese 202, 17 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04202-6 (Preprint)
"Time in Historical Science" (with Cleland, C.E)
In TIME AND SCIENCE: Volume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its Evolution (pp. 271-310). (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800613737_0010
"Proxy measurement in paleoclimatology" (with Boudinot, F. G)
European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12, 14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00444-8 (Preprint)
"Two Exploratory Uses for General Circulation Models in Climate Science"
Perspectives on Science , 29 (4): 493–509 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00380
"Does a proxy measure up? A framework to assess and convey proxy reliability" (Co-Authored with Boudinot, F. G)
Climate of the Past, 16, 1807–1820 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1807-2020
Outreach
“Stable Isotopes in Unstable Times”
Extinct: The Philosophy of Paleontology Blog. (2023) http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/5/30/stable-isotopes-in-unstable-times
Book Reviews
"Review of Adrian Currie's Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences - Adrian Currie, Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2018), 372 pp., $35.00 (hardcover)"
Philosophy of Science, 89(4), 868-871 (2022). doi:10.1017/psa.2022.82
Works in Progress and Under Review (Titles Redacted)
TEX86 Proxy Measurement (Under Review).
Carbon Dioxide Removal and Model Uncertainty.
Values in Science: Ice Cream and Nutritional Science