Wideranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.In this provocative work Lorraine Code returns to the idea of ampampquotepistemic responsibilityampampquot as developed in her influential 1987 book of the same name to confront the telling new challenges we now face to know the world with some sense of responsibility to other ampampquotknowersampampquot and to the sustaining nonhuman world. Manufactured Uncertainty focuses centrally on the environmental and cultural crises arising from postindustrial manmade climate change which have spawned new forms of passionately partisan social media that directly challenge all efforts to know with a sense of collective responsibility. How can we agree to act together Code asks even in the face of inevitable uncertainty given the truly lifethreatening stakes of todays social and political challenges How can we engage responsibly with those who take every argument for an environmentally grounded epistemology as an unacceptable challenge to their assumed freedoms comforts and ampampquotrightsampampquot Through searching critical dialogue with leading epistemologists cultural theorists and feminist scholars this book poses a timely challenge to all thoughtful knowers who seek to articulate an expanded and deepened sense of epistemic responsibilityto a human society and a natural world embraced together in the most inclusive spirit.