Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Summer/Fall 2000 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "Philo, The Logos, and Sophia." Fort Worth Humanist Association. Fort Worth, TX. September 13, 2000. Invited
  • "Bertrand Russell Meets Karl Barth." Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers. Baylor University, Waco, TX. September 22, 2000. Refereed.
  • "Phillipians 2:6-11 as Counter to Caligula's Self-Deification: Disillusionment and Invention." Center for Secular Inquiry Institute. Austin, TX. September 22, 2000. Invited.
  • The Apocalyptic Tradition vs. The Jesus Seminar Reconstruction." Center for Secular Inquiry Institute. Austin, TX. September 23, 2000. Invited.
  • "Grace Between Tragedy and Gospel: Paul's Formula of Weakness-Strength in Response to the Sophists." Center for Secular Inquiry Institute. Austin, TX. September 23, 2000. Invited.
  • "The Greek's Prometheus and the Early Christian's Holy Spirit-Messiah." Center for Secular Inquiry Institute. Austin, TX. September 24, 2000. Invited.
  • "Implicit Multiple Narrators: The Biblical David as a Spectrum of Narrations." Conference on Christian Literature, Southwest Region. Shawnee, OK. September 29, 2000. Refereed.
  • Participant on two-person panel re topic "Postmodernism and Classical Way." For select high school students in math and science. UNT campus. October 10, 2000.
  • Participant on two-person panel re topic "Theism and Naturalism." For select high school students in math and science. UNT campus. October 16, 2000.
  • "Dostoevsky's Self-Diagnosis." Fifteenth Annual International Conference in Literature and the Visual Arts. Theme: Madness and Bliss. Atlanta, GA. November 4, 2000. Refereed.
  • "Six Views of Theodicy." Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2000.

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • "Ecological Integrity and Health: Toward a Clear Conceptual Distinction," Second Plenary Session, Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity and Health in the Millennium, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 25, 2000.
  • Session Chair, "Social Justice, Cultural and Religious Perspectives," Fourth Plenary Session, Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity and Health in the Millennium, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 26, 2000.
  • "Aldo Leopold and the Foundations of Ecosystem Management," in Kelley Wadsworth, Hannah Kirchner, and Jeremy Higgens, ed., Proceedings: Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic: A Legacy for Public Land Managers (St. Paul: Pheasants Forever, 2000): 71-78.
  • "Biodiversity in Perspective: Ethics," and "Biodiversity in Perspective: Religion" -- papers for Biodiversity in Perspective Conference, Forest Conservation Hall, Taipei, TAIWAN, August 1-2, 2000.
  • "Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic and Environmental Ethics" -- paper for Three Perspectives of Environmental Ethics: Heaven, Earth, Man Conference, National Central University, Chung Li, TAIWAN, August 4, 2000
  • "Conservation and Indigenous Peoples" -- paper for Listen to the Cry of Taiwan's Mountains and Forests Conference, Chaiyi University, Chaiyi, TAIWAN, August 8, 2000.
  • "Conservation Biology: Values and Ethics" -- paper for faculty and graduate-student colloquium, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN, August 15, 2000.
  • "Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic," and "Problems with the Land Ethic: Philosophical and Scientific" -- papers for Challenges of the Land Ethic for Christianity in the Twenty-first Century Conference, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, TAIWAN, August 17, 2000.
  • "Aboriginal People's Hunting in Ethical Perspective," and "The Ethics of Nature and Culture: Similarities and Differences" -- papers for Biodiversity in Practice: Aboriginal People's Hunting Culture in Perspective Conference, Wutai, TAIWAN, August 19, 2000.
  • Formal and informal consultations with the following people and groups, August 2000 in TAIWAN: (Edgar) Lin Jun-yi - Minister of the Environmental Protection Agency of Taiwan, Leu Lu-chang - director of Yangminsang National Park, The Taiwanese Christian Ecological Center, Association of Taiwanese Land Ethics, The Hsientien River Association, The Meinung People's Association, The Eco-Conservation Alliance of Taiwan, The Tzou Tribe of Native Taiwanese, The Lukai Tribe of Native Taiwanese, The philosophy faculty of National Central University, The botany faculty of Academia Sinica, and The humanities faculty of Providence Catholic University of Taiwan.
  • "Many Indigenous Worlds or the Indigenous World? A Reply to My 'Indigenous' Critics," Environmental Ethics 22 (Fall 2000): 291-310.
  • (a)"Introduction to Environmental Ethics,"(b)"Sustainable Development: What It Is and What It Ought To Be" -- papers addresed to the directorate and staff of the Taiwanese Environmental Protection Agency, Taipei, TAIWAN, October 16, 2000.
  • (a)"The Judeo-Christian Stewardship Environmental Ethic," (b)"Biodiversity in Ethical Perspective" -- talks for the staff and students of the China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, TAIWAN, October 19, 2000.
  • "Is Talk Cheap: Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Policy" -- paper for the Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Tamkang University, Tamshui, TAIWAN, October 21, 2000.
  • "Contemporary Criticisms of the Received Wilderness Idea" in David N. Cole and Stephen F. McCool, Wayne A. Freimund, and Jennifer O'Loughlin, eds., Wilderness Science in a Time of Change, Vol 1: Changing Perspectives and Future Directions (Ogden, Utah: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2000): 24-31.
  • "The New Concepts in Conservation" (with Karen G. Mumford) in Jackie Hiltz and Karen Gaul, eds. Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000): 58-74
  • "Aldo Leopold and the Foundations of Ecosystem Management," Journal of Forestry 98 (2000): 5-13.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • Review of Whitehead and the Philosophy of Education by Malcolm D. Evans in Process Studies, 28, nos. 3-4 (Winter 1999): 346-48.
  • "Bergson, Mathematics, and Creativity," in Process Studies, 28, nos. 3-4 (Winter 1999): 268-88, the central essay in a "focus" section. Discussions of the article are given by R.E. Auxier, pp. 301-38, and C.R. Hausmann, pp. 289-300. A dialogue between Prof. Gunter and his critics is published on pages 339-45.
  • Included in the Texas Council for the Humanities' Humanities Speakers Bureau. Outlines of Prof. Gunter's talks ("Frontier Mentality and the New World of Texas: Time for a New Ethic?" and "The Big Thicket: Ecology and a Philosophy of Value") are included in Explorations, the magazine of the speaker's Bureau.
  • Appointed to the editorial board of a new journal "The European Journal of Process Thought," published in Brussels.
  • "Regressive Analytic Therapies versus Progressive, Productive Therapies: Polarity?" at a meeting of the Society for Process Philosophy of Education, Carlyle, Pennsylvania, July 26, 2000. Re-elected to the board of the society.
  • Asked to contribute twelve keyword-indexed copies of his articles on Henri Bergson and the philosophy of science to the "Theory Lab" of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Donau, Austria).
  • Participated, with environmentalists and Texas Parks and Wildlife officials, in planning sessions for the Big Thicket Davis Hill State Park, September 12, 2000.
  • "Be a Philosopher: Aldo Leopold and the Facts of Life." Dallas Sierra Club, September 13, 2000.
  • "Environmental Philosophy: Mainstream of the Future or Intellectual Orphan." Wayne Leys Lecture Series on Ethics and Public Policy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, September 29, 2000.
  • Published the plenary presentation of the Big Thicket Science Conference: "Leopold's Land Ethics, Texas, and the Big Thicket: An Obligation to the Land" Texas Journal of Science, 52(3) Supplement, 1-10.
  • Elected President of the Society for Process Philosophy of Education.
  • Attended annual meeting of the Big Thicket Association, Saratoga, Texas. Presented the R.E. Jackson Conservation Award to Arthur Temple, Jr., retired president and chairman of the board for Temple-Inland, Inc. and former vice-chairman of Time, Inc. October 21, 2000.
  • Re-elected to the Board of the Texas Committee for Natural Resources, October 28, 2000.
  • "Reconceiving Nature: The Big Thicket as a Case in Point," Life Sciences Symposium Series, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas, November 9, 2000.
  • "Whitehead's Contribution to Ecological Thought: Some Unrealized Possibilities," Interchange (Canada) 31, Nos. 2-3, 2000, 211-223.
  • Review of Bounded People, Boundless Lands by Eric T. Freyfogle in the Fall/Winter 2000 Sustainable Communities Review.

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • "Can and Should There be an International Environmental Ethic?" Second Plenary Session, Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity and Health in the Millennium, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 25, 2000.
  • Session Chair, "Presentations by the Earth Charter Association," First Plenary Session, Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity and Health in the Millennium, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 24, 2000.
  • Issue of journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 22, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 225-336.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Denton County, Texas, September 26, 2000.
  • "The Split between the Sciences and the Humanities," Society for American Foresters, Washington, D.C., November 19, 2000.
  • "Aesthetics and the Environment: The Aesthetic Views of Allen Carlson," Society for Philosophy and Geography Session, American Philosophical Association, New York, December 28, 2000.
  • Issue of journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 22, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 337-448.

 

George A. James

  • Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute - Indian Philosophy, Religion, and Culture: Conflicts and Negotiations, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, Summer 2000.
  • Fall Semester 2000 - Faculty Development Leave - spent in India. Research in India funded in part by a Faculty Research Grant. Undertook original research on four environmental movements in India: the Auroville Community in Tamil Nadu, the Swadhyaya Movement in Maharashtra and Gujarat, the Swaraj movement centered in Maharashtra, and the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the Save the Narmada Movement) in Madhya Pradesh.
  • Delivered a lecture to the philosophy and sociology faculties of Mulana Azad College of the University of Calcutta, December 21, 2000.

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • "The Depth of the Surface and the Surface of Depth: Crossings between Kiefer and O'Keeffe," at Philosophy of Landscape Painting, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 10-14, 2000,
  • "Boundary Objects Versus Border Patrol," Mexico-North Center for Biocultural Diversity Studies, Conference: "Exploring Diversity Through Innovative Research and Education in Borderland Environments," Chihuahua City, Mexico, June 13-16, 2000.
  • "Geology and Ecosystems," Field Workshop at Judson Mead Geologic Field Station of Indiana University in the northern Tobacco Root Mountains of Montana. Organized by the Geological Society of America and the National Minerals Training for employees of the National Park Service and Forest Service. The workshop includes investigation and analysis of complex structural and functional relationships between biological and physical components of ecosystems (relationships among geology, soils, climate, vegetation, wildlife, and people). June 18-25, 2000.
  • "Crossing Borders: The Necessity of Boundary Objects," Texas Society for Ecological Restoration, Fort Davis, TX, August 11-13, 2000.
  • "Restoration as De-domestication of Land and Politics," Society for Ecological Restoration, Liverpool, UK, September, 2000.
  • "Calvino's Open Encyclopedia," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, October, 2000.
  • "Creating Common Boundaries: Translating across Cultural, Political and Ecological Scales," Society of American Foresters National Convention, November, 2000.
  • Editorial Activities: Manuscript Reviewer for BioScience and Environmental Ethics.
  • Faculty Member of the Institute of Applied Sciences: faculty affiliated with University of North Texas Environmental Sciences Program.

Richard M. Owsley

  • Commentator, "Response to John Redmond's 'The Logical Investigations: Intimations of a Transcendental Logic,'" 30th Annual Husserl Conference, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, June 23, 2000.
  • Participated in a panel on the life and thought of Georg Simmel. Part One - Moderator. Part Two - presented paper entitled: "George Simmel: Kant's Critique of Historical Judgment." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Penn State, University Park, PA., October 5-7, 2000.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • "Natural Law in Maimonides?" at a conference on St. Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law, held at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Michigan, June 2-3, 2000.
  • "Rediscovering the Sources of Modern Jewish Thought." Dallas Beyt Midrash (Academy for Jewish Higher Education). Richardson Civic Center, Richardson, Texas (6 sessions co-taught with Dr. Joshua Parens, Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas.) Bi-Weekly, Fall 2000.
  • "Spinoza's First Steps Toward Religious (and Political) Liberalism in the Theological-Political Treatise (1670)." Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy. University of Toronto, Canada. September, 2000.
  • "Shakespeare's Jewish Lawyers' Play: The Merchant of Venice." Dallas B'nai B'rith Bench and Bar Association. Belo Mansion, Dallas. October 28, 2000.
  • Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. Edited and Introduced by Martin D. Yaffe. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2000.