Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Summer/Fall 2002 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • Serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Encyclopedia of Secular Thought (2002-).
  • Served as President of the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society (2001-2002).
  • Review, Paul H. Grawe's Proclamation of Joy for Greenwood Press (June 2002).
  • Interviewed by National Public Radio for one-hour on "Pentecostals and Evangelicals Regarding Alternative Lifestyles" (June 2002).
  • Conducted work on a 2002-2003 UNT grant titled, "Miracles: Cosmos or Chaos?" Summer/Fall 2002.
  • Review, Mark R. Warren's Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy, in Sustainable Communities Review. 5:2 (Summer 2002).
  • Reveiw, Predrag Cicovacki's The World in which We Live Together for the University of Rochester Press (September 2002).
  • Published "On the Resiliency of Religion" in Clio's Psyche 9:2 (September 2002): 83-6.
  • "Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and Tolstoy on The Historical Jesus." Conference on Christian Literature/Southwest. Tulsa, OK. October 2002. (Refereed)
  • "Miracles: Cosmos or Chaos." Annual International Conference on Literature and the Arts. Atlanta, GA. November 2002. (Refereed)

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • Received National Science Foundation (NSF) Coupled Natural and Human Systems(CNS) Biocomplexity grant CNH BCS-0216722 (with eight other UNT faculty) - $600,000 over two years.
  • "Choosing Appropriate Spatial and Temporal Scales for Ecological Restoration," Journal of Biosciences 27 (2002): 101-112 (new article).
  • "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 (anthologized article).
  • "Content Analysis" -- presentation to NSF-sponsored Biocomplexity Workshop, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, September 19, 2002.
  • "The Ecology of Ecological Restoration: from the Clemensian Paradigm to Leopoldian Land Health" -- paper for Symposium #8: Linking the Leopold Legacy and Ecological Restoration in the Southwestern U.S. and Northwestern Mexico of the 87th annual international conference of the Ecological Society of America and the 14th annual meeting of the Society for Ecological Restoration, Tucson, AZ, August 5, 2002.
  • "Wetland Gloom, Wetland Glory" -- powerpoint presentation to Environmental Aesthetics conference, Utah State University, Logan, UT, September 27, 2002.
  • "Biocomplexity in the Form of Coupled Natural and Human Systems" -- presentation to the annual Big Thicket Research Symposium of the Big Thicket Association, Saratoga, TX, October 12, 2002.
  • Referee reports for Environmental Ethics, Landcape Ecology, and Conservation Biology.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • Received National Science Foundation (NSF) Coupled Natural and Human Systems(CNS) Biocomplexity grant CNH BCS-0216722 (with eight other UNT faculty) - $600,000 over two years. August 2002
  • "Creativity and Environmentalism: Philosophy in the Real World," Frontiers of Creativity Conference, Carbondale, Illinois, September 28, 2002.
  • "Ode an das grosse Dickich und Wittgenstein" in Und ewig lacht die thrakische Magd. by H. Lenk. Mun Litverlag, 2002, 157-158; and "Review of Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues by Nicholas Rescher." Process Studies, 31, No. 1, 2002, 190-193.
  • Published "Ragtime for Husserl" in Rosenmondtagsphilosophie. Ed. Hans Lenk. Munster: LIT, 2002, 163-165.
  • Inducted into the Philosophical Society of Texas in Fort Worth, Texas, December 6, 2002.
  • "The Actual Indefinite in Bergson and Whitehead" International Journal for Field-Being, 2, No. 1, 2002, 9 pp. http://www.iifb.org/ijfb/pagunter-3.htm.

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • "Carlson and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature," Philosophy & Geography 5, no. 2 (2002): 213-23.
  • "Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value," in Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston, III, eds., Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2002), pp. 175-90 (textbook anthology).
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 24, no. 3 (2002): 225-336.
  • "Consumerism, Citizenship, and Environmental Ethics," Keynote Speaker, Honors College, University of Central Arkansas, Fall Retreat, Heifer International, Perryville, Arkansas, September 7, 2002.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Denton County, Texas, October 8, 2002.
  • "Environmental Philosophy and Cave Conservation and Management," Hamilton Valley Symposium, Cave Research Foundation, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, November 9, 2002.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 24, no. 4 (2002): 337-448.

 

George A. James

  • "Grassroots Environmental Movements in India," presented to the Thirteenth International Congress of Vedanta, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, Sept. 12-15 2002 (Refereed).
  • "Conceptions and Misconceptions of India in Contemporary Environmental Philosophy," Department of Religion, Condordia University, Montreal QC, CANADA, Nov 1, 2002.
  • "Grassroots Environmental Movements in India," Department of Religion, Condordia University, Montreal QC, CANADA, Nov 2, 2002.
  • "The Environmental Heritage of the Hindu Religious Tradition," presented to the Montreal Hindu Mandir, Montreal QC, CANADA, Nov 2, 2002.
  • "Swadhyaya is a Philosophy of Life," presented FACES (Fellowship for the Advancement of Cultural Education among Students) McConnell Hall - University of North Texas, Nov 21, 2002.
  • "Sunderlal Bahuguna" in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Ralegan Siddhi," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Baba Amte," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Tehri Dam," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • "Creating Common Boundaries: Translating Across Scales," Interdisciplinary Workshop "Toward a Taxonomy of Boundaries" in Matfield Green, Kansas. May 30-June 2, 2002.
  • "At The Threshold of Access: Touch, Translation and Invitation," International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 3-8, 2002.
  • "A Philosophy of Water," Presentation at a meeting of Dutch Empirical Philosophers, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 22-23, 2002.
  • Merleau-Ponty Lecture at Philosophy Colloquium at University of Wuppertal, Germany, June 23-25, 2002.
  • Reconceiving Environmental Values In Globalizing World. An International Workshop At Mansfield College, Oxford, UK, July 11-12, 2002.
  • "Aldo Leopold: an Invitation to Land Restoration," Society for Ecological Restoration 2002 Joint Meeting with Ecological Society America, Tucson, AZ, August 5-9, 2002. Part of Symposia "Linking the Leopold Legacy and Ecological Restoration in the Southwestern U.S. and Northwestern Mexico."
  • Workshop Meeting of The New Directions Initiative in Golden, CO. Presentation of collaborative projects of interdisciplinary teams. Sept 26-28, 2002.
  • "Grounding the Imagination," Texas Society for Ecological Restoration, Weslaco, TX, October 4-6, 2002.
  • Commentator on Ed Casey's, "Glance and Singularity," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, October 10-12, 2002.
  • "Language at Large," Plenary Roundtable Discussion: Nature and Language, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, October 12-14, 2002.
  • "Sedimentation of Surface, Reactivation of Depth: Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Art," New York School of the Arts, New York City campus of SUNY Stony Brook, November 21, 2002.
  • WORK IN PROGRESS: Editor and writer of the Introduction of the Section Continental and Postmodern Environmental Philosophy of the Fourth Edition of Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Social Ecology, Eds. Michael E Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, George Sessions, Karen Warren, and John Clark First edition New York: Prentice-Hall, 1993. Fourth Edition forthcoming Spring 2003. AND "Boundary Projects Versus Border Patrol," forthcoming in Nature Reconsidered: New Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Eds. Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman, Indiana University Press, 2003.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • "Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Others in the American Public Square." Pew Foundation and The Center for Jewish Community Studies. Newport, R.I. June, 2002.
  • Published "Theological-Political Implications of Ellis Rivkin's Unity Principle," in Structural Analysis: The Historiographic Method of Ellis Rivkin, ed. Allen Podet (Berlin: The Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam, 2002).
  • Fall 2002 - Series of seven seminars on "Judaism and Environmental Ethics" sponsored by Beyt Midrash, a Jewish Adult Education Foundation in Dallas; the seminars are based on his recently published anthology, Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001)
  • "Effeminate vs. Manly Jews: Spinoza's Proto-Zionism as a Rethinking of Machiavelli's Founding Image of Modern Enlightenment," will be read at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 16, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA.