2025
Philosophical Tools for Climate Change
This textbook was created as an open educational resource in the course Philosophy beyond Academia at the University of Groningen in 2024. Except for this introduction, all of the chapters have been created by students of the MA Philosophy Programme of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. This book is the second book in a series of open educational resources applying philosophical tools and methods to a particular topic. In the past, philosophical tools and methods were applied to the topic of migration in the open educational resource, Migration: A Philosophical Toolkit (https://edusources.nl/materials/c06574c0-d831-4c52-82a9-a85b8d3d43e5/migration). About the book: In this book, the methodological approach to the topic of climate change focuses on the notion of a philosophical tool or method. A philosophical tool is a particular philosophical concept or distinction; a philosophical method is a more general way of thinking about a problem that gives us new insights about the problem, in our case, climate change. What this book attempts to do is apply a number of these tools and methods to the problem of climate change.