Typical questions I am interested in exploring are: How do scientists choose and identify phenomena of interest? What kind of assumptions are used to build models of phenomena, and how are they justified? Do these justifications change depending on whom these models provide information for, and if yes, how?
I am particularly interested in exploring these questions in the context of climate change research and my approach is heavily influenced by feminist epistemology.
I am also interested in the social and political aspects of climate science, such as issues at the intersection of epistemology, environmental ethics and public policy.
Key Publications (full list on Google Scholar)
Van den Hurk, B. J., Baldissera Pacchetti, M. , Boere, E., Ciullo, A., Coulter, L., Dessai, S., … & Witpas, K. (2023). Climate impact storylines for assessing socio-economic responses to remote events. Climate Risk Management, 40, 100500. [open access]
Kunimitsu, T., Baldissera Pacchetti, M., Ciullo, A., Sillmann, J., Shepherd, T. G., Taner, Ü., van den Hurk, B. (2023). Representing storylines with causal networks to support decision making: frameowrk and example. Climate Risk Management. [open access]
Baldissera Pacchetti, M., Dessai, S., Stainforth, D. A., Bradley, S. (2021). Assessing the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information: the case of the UK Climate Projections 2018. Climatic Change. [open access]
Baldissera Pacchetti, M., J. Schacher, S. Dessai, M. Bruno Soares, R. Lawlor, J. Daron (2021). Towards a UK Climate Services Code of Ethics. Meeting Summary in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. [open access]
Baldissera Pacchetti, M., S. Dessai, S. Bradley, D. A. Stainforth (2021). Assessing the quality of regional climate information. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. [open access]
Baldissera Pacchetti, M. (2021). Structural uncertainty through the lens of model building. Synthese. [open access]
Baldissera Pacchetti, M. (2018). A role for spatiotemporal scales in modeling. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 67, 14-21. [sciencedirect]
Project Deliverables
Baldissera Pacchetti, M & St. Clair, A.L. (2023), Framework to support the
equitable standardisation of climate services, D1.2 of the Climateurope2 project. Dowloadable here.
Translations
Baldissera Pacchetti, M. English translations of
- Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa, Tatjana. (1925). Zur Axiomatisierung des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik. Zeitschrift für Physik, 33, 933–945; and
- Selected parts of Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa, Tatjana. (1956). Grundlagen der Thermodynamik. Leiden: Brill.
In Jos Uffink, Giovanni Valente, Charlotte Werndl, & Lena Zuchowski (Eds.), Tatjana Afanassjewa and her legacy: philosophical insights from the work of an original physicist and mathematician. 2020. Springer. [springerlink]
Work in Progress
“Trust and values at the science-policy interface”
Abstract available upon request.
“Towards a standpoint epistemology of climate science” (with Julie Jebeile and Erica Thompson, under review)
Abstract available upon request.
“Weaving the seams of weather and climate” (research project)
Project description available upon request.
Marina Baldissera Pacchetti 