Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Summer/Fall 2001 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "Supralapsarian Calvinism: A Psychological Interpretation of Violence." Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. (2001), 3-6. (Refereed).
  • With Kathryn Gould Cullivan: "Humanism, Religious and Secular." Videotaped for Florida Humanists, June 2001.
  • "Clevenger's Crossroads," Southwest Conference on Christian Literature, Baylor University, Waco, TX, September 2001.
  • "Negotiating with the Gods: What Anthropologists Can Teach Philosophers of Religion." The Philosophers' Forum. Dallas, TX, October 2001.
  • "The Quest for Dostoevsky's Christ." National Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Eastern Orthodoxy Session). Denver, CO. November 2001. (Refereed)
  • "Toward a Framework for Viewing Sacrifices in Hebrew Scripture." National Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver, CO. November 2001. (Refereed)
  • "Oh, Adam, What Have You Done?" International Conference on Parody and Imitation. Atlanta, November 2001.
  • "Can Religion Be Studied Seen From Mt. Neutral?" Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Dallas, December 2001.

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • NSF Biocomplexity competition proposal revised and resubmitted, yr 2001 (recommended for funding, but not high enough on priority list to actually get funded)
  • Refereed Journal Article - "Multicultural Environmental Ethics," Daedalus 130 (2001): 77-97.
  • "Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind," in David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willcott, eds., Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001): 546-556--chapter in a textbook anthology.
  • (a)"The Land Ethic in Context of A Sand County Almanac,"; (b)"The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic"; (c)"The Land Ethic and the Problem of Ecofascism"; (d)"The Challenge of Fin de Millennium Ecology to the Land Ethic" -- presentations as Scholar-in-Residence to the NEH Summer Institute on Environmental Ethics and Issues, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, June 4-5, 2001.
  • "Toward an International Conservation Ethic: Lessons from the Cranes of Asia" with Curt Meine--paper for the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Maison, WI, July 8, 2001.
  • (a) "Introductory Remarks: Chaemacyparis Forest Conservation and Environmental Justice on Taiwan"; (b)"Cultural Diversity: What It Is and Why It's Valuable" -- respectively, workshop organized for and paper presented to the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Hilo, HI, July 29, 30, 2001.
  • "The Concept of Intrinsic Value in Nature: Theoretical and Pragmatic Considerations" -- paper for The Teale Lecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 21, 2001.
  • "The Implications of the 'Shifting Paradigm' in Ecology for Paradigm Shifts in the Philosophy of Conservation," paper for Reconstructing Conservation: History, Values, Practice conference, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, November 2, 2001.
  • "Toward Consilience of Multi-cultural, Faith-based Environmental Ethics" -- talk for Daedalus symposium on Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change?, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, September 24, 2001.
  • External Examiner for Tenure and Promotion for Other Universities: 2001 Anna Peterson, promotion to Full Professor, Religion Studies, University of Florida.
  • Encyclopedia Articles:
    • "Conservation Ethics," in Lawrence Becker, ed., Encyclopedia of Ethics, Second Edition (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 2001): 307-310.
    • "Environmental Ethics," in Lawrence Becker, ed., Encyclopedia of Ethics, Second Edition (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 2001): 467-471.
    • "Leopold, Aldo (1887-1948)" in Lawrence Becker, ed., Encyclopedia of Ethics, Second Edition (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 2001): 965-967.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • "A Fearlessly Frank Conference Report." Big Thicket Reporter, No.51, May-June, 2001, pp.1,4.
  • Texas Committee on Natural Resources Strategic Planning Meeting. First Unitarian Church, Dallas, Texas, June 23, 2001.
  • Special Meeting of Big Thicket Association with National Parks and Conservation Association, Nature Conservancy, Texas State Parks and Wildlife, National Park Service and other environmental agencies. Saratoga, Texas, July 25, 2001.
  • "The Actual Indefinite in Bergson and Whitehead: Synechism versus Atomism." Keynote Presentation, Fifth Symposium on Field-Being and the Nonsustantialistic Turn, International Institute for Field-Being, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, August 19, 2001.
  • Chair, Plenary Session. The Nonsubstantialistic Turn in Whitehead. Fifth Symposium on Field-Being and the Nonsubstantialistic Turn, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, August 19, 2001.
  • "Ned Fritz to be Honored as Big Thicket Visitor Center Dedicated." Conservation Progress, No.226, September, 2001, p.3.
  • "In Prospect: The Association for Process Philosophy of Education in the Near Future." Association for Process Philosophy of Education Newsletter, September, 2001, p.5.
  • Keynote address "Ralph Yarborough and Lance Rosier: Contrasting Values Which We Must Endeavor to Unite" at the opening of the Big Thicket National Preserve Visitors' Center, Kountze, Texas, October 6, 2001.
  • "A.N. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Coherence, Correspondence, and 'Truthful Beauty'," and "Une Esthetique Whiteheadienne de la nature: la beaute et la foret." University of Liege, Belgium, October 11-12, 2001.
  • "The Big Thicket and the Great Chicago Wilderness: New Approaches to Conservation" at the Interagency Wetland Workshop, Tanglewood Resort, Grayson County, Texas, October 29, 2001.
  • Chaired a session on Asian Philosophy at the 63rd Southwestern Philosophical Society Meeting in Dallas, November 2, 2001.
  • Australian-Association for Process Thought: "The Problem of Understanding Change: Bergson, Whitehead, and the Future of Process Philosophy," and "Process Philosophy and Environmentalism: A Preestablished Harmony," LaTrobe University - Melbourne, Australia, November 29, 2001.
  • Review of "A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McKlintock" by Evelyn Fox Keller in Process Studies, N.S. No. 6, December 2001, 121-123.

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • Issue of journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 225-336.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Denton County, Texas, October 2, 2001.
  • Issue of journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 23, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 337-448.

 

George A. James

  • "Is Islam the Enemy?" Interview with Debbie Denman on "Good Morning Texas," WFAA TV Channel 8, September 13, 2001.
  • Interview Channel 5 News, September 13, 2001.
  • Interview with Fort Worth Star Telegram, September 14, 2001.
  • Interview with Jenara Burgess Times Record News, Wichita Falls TX, September 14, 2001.
  • "Buddhism in America" a Presentation to the adult class at Trinity Presbyterian Church, October 23, 2001.

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • Manuscript Reviewer for Political Research Quarterly
  • "Phenomenology on (the) Rocks," Research in Phenomenology, Vol XXXI, 2001.
  • Member of the Steering Committee of The New Directions Initiative, a collaboration of different universities and institutions to integrate scientific research with the humanities in interdisciplinary partnerships for researching multiple aspects of environmental issues. New Directions will ground its theoretical discussions in practical concerns through workshop-conferences around case-based collaborative research. Together, three meetings (at Biosphere II and Penn State University) and collaborative teamwork across twelve months will break new ground in both the theoretical and practical aspects of interdisciplinary environmental research and education.
  • June-July 2001 she worked in Cyprus as the humanist on a team of archeologists, geologists, arthistorians, architects in the Troodos Archaeological Survey Project (TASP), a project of the Cyprus-American Archeological Research Institute (CAARI) and the University of Glasgow to determine the long-term effects of landuse on the landscape. This is a three-year archeo-geological project researching the intertwinement between natural and cultural conditions. She works closely with soil scientist/geologist Jay Stratton Noller (Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis) explicating the implicit methods used in this interdisciplinary context. This collaboration is funded by the National Science Foundation.
  • "Touching Accessibility," Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July, 2001.
  • "Humans, Invasive Species and Ecological Restoration," Texas Society for Ecological Restoration, Hunt, TX, August, 2001.
  • "Liminal Philosophy" Invited panel about the importance of borders. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Baltimore, October 6-8, 2001.
  • "Environmental Workshop on Suburban Sprawl in Greater Baltimore," organized together with Robert Kirkman for the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Baltimore, October 6-8, 2001.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. Edited and Introduced by Martin D. Yaffe. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001.
  • "Bible Translation and the Rhetoric of Theologico-Political Liberalism: The Case of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." Similarity and Translation...edd. var. --tentative title for a collection of papers arising from a Conference on Similarity and Translation, American Bible Society/Scuola Superiori per Interpreti e Tradutori , New York, N.Y. June 2001.
  • "Judaism and the Environmental Crisis." 2001 Jewish ArtsFest. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Tex. August 2001.
  • "The Shocking Character of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." University of Dallas, Irving, Tex. October 2001.
  • "Spinoza and the Question of Jewish Identity." Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Oh. October 2001.
  • "Judaism Faces the Environmental Crisis." Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Oh. October 2001.
  • "Spinoza's Un-Theology." University of Dallas, Irving, Tex. November 2001.
  • "Antonio's War against the Jews, etc., in Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas, and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." Association for Jewish Studies. Washington, D.C. December 2001.