Paths of Scientific Reasoning in the public debate on Climate Change. The Uncertainty of the Knowledge (UNKNOWNPATH)

Our research will address the heuristic gap between the scientific based climate change technological knowledge and its transformation in social problematic following the mediatic circulation. This leads to further analysis on the influence of this shift on geopolitical or governance-related situations.

Method: A three-phase multidisciplinary research. 1. Actor and network analysis for the analysis of the scientific reasoning in the public space as heuristically equal to the other kind of knowledge. 2. Argument mining and identification of the polymorphism of paradigms related to climate change. 3. Paradigm shift and soft power analysis at the scale of global conflicts.

Expected results: The analysis of the trajectory of the scientific reasoning will bring light to the cycle of discourses becoming hegemonic in the public sphere. Their influence on personal and public level demonstrates the functioning of paradigms as vectors of decision at both discourse and object level.

Contribution: Considerable interdisciplinary contribution to the understanding of the role of information as power in a global and conflictual public sphere. A unique heuristic model replicable to new case studies, based on the relation to the objects, to the people, to the discourses.