Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Summer/Fall 2003 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • $1500 from University of North Texas, 2003-2004, for research on Kant's Categorical Imperative and Darwin's Social Instincts.
  • "On the Resiliency of Religion," The Best of Clio's Psyche, Franklin Lakes, N.J.: Psychohistory Forum, Summer 2003, pp. 133-36. (Refereed)
  • "She Who Laughs Last: The Book of Esther and the Greek Redaction," Annual International Conference on Literature and the Arts, Atlanta, Ga., October 2003.
  • Participant in Writer's League of Texas, Austin, Tex., July 11-13, 2003.
  • Interviewed by the editor of The Allen American (Texas) on contemporary negotiation of the roles of religion in relation to the state, October 3, 2003.

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • With Michael P. Nelson, coauthor, American Indian Environmental Philosophy: An Ojibwa Case Study, Basic Ethics in Action (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2003).
  • With Rudolph de Groot, Rashid Hassan, and Stephano Pagiola, "Concepts of Ecosystem Value and Valuation Approaches," in Angela Cropper, Harold A. Mooney, Walter V. Reid, et al. eds., Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: A Framework for Action (Washington: Island Press, 2003), pp. 127-147.
  • "The Implications of the Shifting Paradigm in Ecology for Paradigm Shifts in the Philosophy of Conservation," in Ben Minteer and Robert Manning, eds., Reconstructing Conservation (Washington: Island Press, 2003), pp. 239-261.
  • "A Hierarchical Theory of Value Applied to the Great Lakes and Their Fishes" (with Karen Mumford), in Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, ed., Values at Sea: Ethics for the Marine Environment (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003), pp. 50-74.
  • "Il Ruolo del Valore Intrinseco per la Naturalizzazione della Cittˆ," in Luigi Fusco Girard, Bruno Forte, Maria Cerreta, Pasquale de Toro, and Fabiana Forte, eds., L'uomo e la Cittˆ. Verso Uno Sviluppo Umano e Sostenibile (Napoli, 2003): 269-281.
  • "Wetland Gloom, Wetland Glory," Philosophy and Geography 6 (2003): 33-45.
  • "Toward (and Away from) Legal Rights for Endangered Species: From 'Trees' to Morton to Hill to Lujan" and "Intrinsic Value in Nature: Theoretical and Pragmatic Pespectives," orum on Bioethical Ethical Issues in Society, Yale University, New Haven CT, October 15, 2003.
  • "Marrying Bears and Beavers: Ojibwa Environmental Ethics" and "Naturalizing the Boundary between Humanity and Nature," inaugural lectures for the Department of Religion's Ph.D. program in Religion and Nature, University of Florida, Gainesvill, FL, September 17, 2003.
  • "Environmental Ethics: The Birth of a New Branch of Philosophy and Its Relationship to Environmental Science," U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, TX, February 11, 2003.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • "A Whiteheadian Aesthetics of Nature: Beauty and the Forest" (in Finnish) in Metsaan mieleni. Helsinki: Maaahenki, Ltd., 2003, 79-89.
  • "A Philosophical Basis for Curricula Based on Environmental Projects," Association for Process Philosophy of Education Conference on Education and Environment, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 12, 2003.
  • "Bergson's Approach to Social Structures: The Centrality of Openness," University of Saint Andrews (Scotland), July 24, 2003.

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 25, no. 3 (2003): 225-336.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Denton County, Texas, September 30, 2003.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 25, no. 4 (2003): 337-480.
  • "Environmental or Ecological Citizenship through Culture-Specific Value Education," Session I, World Life-Culture Forum, December 19, 2003, Suwon, Korea; "Environmental or Ecological Citizenship through Culture-Specifice Environmental Value Education," The Transformation of the Twenty-first Century and Life-Culture, WLCF2003 Paper Book (Suwon, Korea: Kyonggi Cultural Foundation, Life-Culture Study Institute, 2003), pp. 107-120.

 

George A. James

  • "Interview with Sunderlal Bahuguna," in Seminar, January 2003, a journal of current affairs in India. Sunderlal Bahuguna is a famous Indian environmental activist, and with Pandurang Hegde, founder of the Appiko movement, a grassroots environmental movement in the Indian State of Karnataka.
  • "Religion, Satyagraha, and the Tehri Dam: The Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna," in the "Religion, Ecology, and World Peace" section of an "International Conference on World Peace," sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Gujarat in Ahmedabad, India, December 28, 2003 to January 2, 2004. Delegates to this conference represented 23 countries.

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • July 2003, Dixon Water Foundation, Philosophy of Water Issues Grant, $100.000 yearly grant for coming three years.
  • 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 Summer 2003.
  • "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

  • Critical Review of Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932), ed. M. Zank (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2002), in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 30 (2003):327-31.
  • "Remarks On Translating Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670)," University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, September 2003.
  • "Philosophical Adventures in Translating Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1670)," at the Dallas Philosopher's Forum, Richland College, Richardson, Texas, October 2003.
  • Panel organiser for panel on Leo Strauss's interpretations of the medieval and early-modern Jewish thinkers Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, Isaac Abravanel and Benedict Spinoza, Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass., December 2003.
  • "Leo Strauss's 'Maimonideanism' in his Interpretation of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise," the Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting in Boston, Mass., December 2003.
  • National planning meeting concerning the expenditure of grant monies for COEJL (Coalition on the Environment in Jewish Life) at Hebrew College, Newton, Mass., December 2003.
  • Eight-session adult-education seminar on Robert D. Sacks' The Lion and the Ass: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1990) at Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, for Beyt Midrash of Dallas, Fall 2003.
  • Ten-session course for high school students on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at Congregation Shearith Israel, Dallas, Fall 2003.
  • "'Promised Land' and 'Chosen People' in Judaism" in Prof. Adrian Lewis's course on the Arab-Israeli Wars, Department of History, University of North Texas, November 2003.