Research
Publications:
“Climate Change Injustice,” Environmental Ethics, 44:1, Spring 2022, 4-24.
“In Defense of National Climate Change Responsibility: A Reply to the Fairness Objection.” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 49: 2, 30 December 2020, 115-155.
- Selected by Wiley for curated collection, Environmental Policy: 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections Research, June 2022.
John Bistline, Mark Budolfson, and Blake Francis (equal contributors) “Deepening Transparency about Value-Laden Assumptions in Energy and Environmental Modeling: Improving Best Practices for Both Modelers and Non-Modelers,“ Climate Policy, 21:1, 26 June 2020, 1-15.
“Moral Asymmetries and Economic Evaluations of Climate Change: The Challenge of Assessing Diverse Effects.” The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics, edited by Adrian Walsh, Duncan Purves, and Säde Hormio. Routledge, 2017, 141-162.
Dane Scott (primary author) and Blake Francis (eds), Debating Science: Deliberation, Values, and the Public Good. Prometheus Books, 2011, 277pp.
Works in Progress
- [A paper on the moral significance of non-subsistence/non-luxury emissions] (revise and resubmit)
- [A paper defending climate change reparations from missing duty-bearer objections] (under submission)
- “Against Strong Emissions Sufficientarianism”
- “When Should the Polluter Pay?”
- “The Individual Denialist’s Playbook: Individual Climate Change Responsibility and Strong Conceptions of Harm”