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Home » David M. Frank

David M. Frank

David M. Frank

September 22, 2023 by David Frank

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David M. Frank

Lecturer

David M. Frank is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on values and ethics in environmental sciences. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Texas in 2012 with a dissertation on philosophy of conservation biology. He has since held postdoctoral positions at New York University, the University of North Carolina, and Brown University, developing research collaborations with environmental scientists and teaching courses on environmental ethics, research ethics, and philosophy of science. His current research focuses on philosophical controversies about invasive species and the ethics and economics of the Green New Deal.

Education

PhD, University of Texas

Research

“Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate.” 2022. Biology & Philosophy

“What is the Environment in Environmental Health Research? Perspectives from the Ethics of Science.” 2021. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.

“Disagreement or Denialism? ‘Invasive Species Denialism’ and Ethical Disagreement in Science.” 2019. Synthese.

“Logical Fallacies and Reasonable Debates in Invasion Biology: A Response to Guiaşu and Tindale.”2019. Biology & Philosophy. First author, with D. Simberloff, J. Bush, A. Chuang, and C. Leppanen.

“Ethics of The Scientist qua Policy Advisor: Inductive Risk, Uncertainty, and Catastrophe in Climate Economics.” 2017. Synthese.

“Making Uncertainties Explicit: the Jeffreyan Value-Free Ideal and its Limits.” 2017. Exploring Inductive Risk, eds. Kevin Elliott and Ted Richards. Oxford.

“’Biodiversity’ and Biological Diversities: Consequences of Pluralism Between Biology and Policy.” 2016. Routledge Handbook for the Philosophy of Biodiversity, eds. Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski, and Sahotra Sarkar. Routledge.

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