Teaching

Topics: climate dynamics, climate modeling, climate change

Topics: What is scientific progress? To what extent, and in which respects, is science progressive? What is science progressing towards? What makes progress possible in science? How can we recognize progressive developments in science?

Topics: The characteristics of the climate system (complexity, chaos, feedback, nonlinearity, and multiple equilibria), the role of models and computation in science (especially the role of models in explaining and understanding), the structure and function of climate models (with special emphasis on the particularities of modelling complex systems), model coupling, and model hierarchies.

Topics: the fundamental metaphysical and epistemological questions raised by mathematics, such as "what is mathematics about?" and "how do we come to know it?"