ABSTRACT Climate science denial results from ignorance and perpetuates ignorance about scientific facts and methods of inquiry. In this paper, I explore climate science denial as a type of active ignorance called willful hermeneutical ignorance, where ignorance is actively maintained by a gap in a person’s conceptual resources. This kind of ignorance is active in the sense that it resists correction. For instance, climate science denial may be motivated by ideological reasoning and other biases, it is often not responsive to the introduction of more evidence, and it can be maintained as consequence of conceptual gaps, or hermeneutical lacunas, that make possible a certain degree of blindness to evidence. I then identify three hermeneutical lacunas in the epistemology of science that prevent the uptake of evidence for anthropogenic climate change – one from Lawrence Torcello and two from the work of Dale Jamieson. Finally, while climate science denial’s resistance to correction poses significant challenges for effective education about climate science, this framework also suggests a way forward: education that emphasizes building basic concepts required for understanding and interpreting scientific research.

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气候科学否认是故意的解释学无知

摘要 气候科学否认源于无知，并使对科学事实和探究方法的无知长期存在。在本文中，我将气候科学否认作为一种主动的无知进行探索，称为故意的解释学无知，其中无知是由一个人的概念资源的差距来积极维持的。这种无知在抵制纠正的意义上是活跃的。例如，气候科学的否认可能是出于意识形态推理和其他偏见，它通常对引入更多证据没有反应，并且可以作为概念差距或解释学漏洞的结果而维持下去，这使得一定程度的对证据的盲目。然后，我确定了科学认识论中的三个解释学漏洞，这些漏洞阻止了人为气候变化证据的采纳——一个来自劳伦斯·托尔切洛，两个来自戴尔·贾米森的工作。最后，尽管气候科学否认对修正的抵制对气候科学的有效教育提出了重大挑战，但该框架也提出了一条前进的道路：强调建立理解和解释科学研究所需的基本概念的教育。