Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Summer/Fall 2004 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "When the Moon Turned to Blood." Texas Writer's League. Mainstream Fiction Finalist. Entered in refereed competition. Attended the TWL conference and met with literary agents. Austin, TX June 11-13, 2004
  • "Common Moral Ground: A Viable Ethic for Both Naturalists and Theists." Science and Religion Forum. Houston, TX. September 2004 (Invited)
  • "Ivan Karamazov's Grand Inquisitor Encounters John Calvin: Critique of Calvin's Tyrant Model for Yahweh." Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers. Dallas, TX. October 2004. (Refereed)
  • "Kant and Darwin on Lying and Truth-Telling." International Conference on Truth and Mendacity. Atlanta, GA. Sponsored by State University of West Georgia. October 2004.(Refereed)
  • "The David Story: The Implied Author's Irony and Ambivalence." Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism Section of The Society of Biblical Literature, National Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. November 2004. (Refereed)
  • Edited all the articles for Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent (an anthology by Dostoevsky scholars). Sent to the publisher for publication in Spring of 2005.
  • Contributed the introductory essay ("Hearing Voices") and a separate article ("Dostoevsky and the Historical Christ") to the anthology.

J. Baird Callicott

  • NOTE: Dr. Callicott spent Fall of 2004 on leave teaching at Yale University.

Robert Frodeman

  • Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Editor, with Bruce V. Foltz): Indiana University Press, 2004
  • "Philosophy of Science Policy" (guest editor, with Carl Mitcham), Philosophy Today special issue, forthcoming
  • Cities and Rivers: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, St. Petersburg, Russia, National Science Foundation, $56,000
  • "Philosophy of Science Policy," (w/ C. Mitcham) Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming.
  • "The Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy," Environmental Ethics, forthcoming.
  • "Creating a 'Humanities Policy': New Directions in the Earth Sciences and Humanities," AIS Newsletter, forthcoming
  • "Prolegomena to a Future Humanities Policy," Philosophy Today, forthcoming.
  • "Environmental Philosophy and the Shaping of Public Policy," Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 7-16.
  • "Philosophy in the field," in Soils, Stones and Symbols: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Mineral World, Nicole Boivin & Mary Ann Owoc, eds., forthcoming.
  • "Global Climate Change," Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, forthcoming.
  • "Knowledge," (with C. Mitcham), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, forthcoming.
  • "Place," Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, forthcoming.

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • "Une esthétique whiteheadienne de la nature: la beauté et la forêt." in Alfred North Whitehead: De l'algebre universelle à la théologie naturelle. Eds. Francois Beets, Michel Dupuis, Michel Weber. Frankfurt aud Lancaster: Ontos Verlag, 2004, 325-335.
  • "Reflections From The Grassroots Up." in Falling From Grace in Texas: A Literary Response to the Demise of Paradise. Eds. Rich Bass and Paul Christeusen. San Antonio,. Texas: Wings Press, 2004, 5-9.
  • "A Whiteheadian Aesthetics of Nature: Beauty and the Forest." Process Studies, 33, n.2, Fall-Winter, 2004, 315-322.
  • Review of Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon by George Allan." Process Studies, 33, n.2, Fall-Winter, 2004, 339-341.
  • "Introduction" Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 205, vii-xvi

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 26, no. 3 (2004): 225-336.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Denton County, Texas, September 28, 2004.
  • "Environmental Ethics and the Biological Sciences," Environmental Biology and Ethics Seminar Series, Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology Program, Florida International University, September 30, 2004.
  • "J. R. R. Tolkien and the Music of Middle-Earth," Introductory Lecture for "The Lord of the Rings Symphony," Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas, Texas, October 7 and 8, 2004.
  • "The Role of Western Environmental Ethics in Non-Western Countries: West Meets East," First International Meeting of the Chinese Society for Environmental Ethics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, October 16, 2004.
  • "The Role of Western Environmental Ethics in Non-Western Countries: West Meets East," Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 21, 2004.
  • "Why We Think Nature if Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Western Environmental Thought," Institute for Science,
  • Technology and Society, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 23, 2004.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 26, no. 4 (2004): 337-448.
  • "Environmental or Ecological Citizenship through Culture-Specific Emvironmental Value Education," Environmental Philosophy: Official Journal of the Korean Society for the Study of Environmental Philosophy 3 (2004): 111-27.

George A. James

  • Undertook original research in India on the life and activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna.
  • Wrote the script for a television interview with Sunderlal Bahuguna in to be aired on a Television Station in New Delhi.
  • Contributed an article entitled "Environmental Philosophy and the Philosophies of India," for a volume concerning Applied Ethics to be published in Delhi.
  • Prepared and presented a paper entitled "Vedanta and Environmentalism: Early Influences upon the Thought and Activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna," at the 15th Congress of Vedanta held in Vishakhapatnam in Dec-January 2004-05.

Irene Klaver

  • Grant for the development of a Philosophy of Water Issues Program: water issues at the cultural, social-political, economic, ethical, philosophical and scientific interface. The Dixon Foundation, Sept, 2004-Aug, 2005; $100,000.
  • "Environmental Continental Philosophy," part 3 of the Fourth Edition of Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Social Ecology, Eds.: Michael E Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, John Clark, Karen Warren, and Irene Klaver. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1993, Fourth Edition, 2004, pp. 281-360.
  • "Stone Worlds: Phenomenology on the Rocks," in Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Social Ecology, Eds.: Michael E Zimmerman, J. Baird Callicott, John Clark, Karen Warren, and Irene Klaver. New York: Prentice-Hall, Fourth Edition, 2004, pp. 347-360.
  • "Boundary Projects Versus Border Patrol," in Nature Reconsidered: New Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Eds. Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman, Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. 44-55.
  • "Water In Cultural Imagination And Practice: Water Out of Sink/Sync," First annual joint meeting of ISEE/IAEP, International Society for Environmental Ethics/International Association for Environmental Philosophy, CO, June 1-4, 2004
  • "Water under Fire: Watershed/Fireshed," presentation with Dwight Barry, Society for Ecological Restoration, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 24-27, 2004
  • Radio Interview NPR/KERA in The Glenn Mitchell Show with Tom LaPoint about Water Issues in the West, Dallas, September 24, 2004 (The Glenn Mitchell Show averages between 70,000 and 80,000 listeners)
  • "Silent Springs," Waxahachie Chautauqua Assembly, Waxahachie, TX, September 25, 2004
  • "Continental Environmental Philosophy: What Does It Reveal?" Yale University, November 18, 2004

Ricardo Rozzi

  • Rozzi, R., F. Massardo & C. Anderson (eds.). 2004. The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve: A Proposal for Conservation and Tourism to Achieve Sustainable Development at the Southern End of the Americas. Bilingual English-Spanish Edition. Ediciones de la Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. ISBN 956-7189-23-4.
  • Rozzi. R. 2005. El Parque Etnobotánico Omora: un espacio para integrar la diversidad biocultural y el bienestar ecosocial en la Provincia Antártica Chilena. In "Bosque Nativo y Comunidades Locales del Sur de Chile" (D. Tecklin, ed.). Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, Chile. In press.
  • Jax, K. & R. Rozzi. 2004. Ecological theory and values in the determination of conservation goals: examples from temperate regions of Germany, USA and Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77: 349-366.
  • Rozzi, R. 2004. Implicaciones éticas de narrativas yaganes y mapuches sobre las aves de los bosques templados de Sudamérica austral. Ornitología Neotropical 15: 435-444.
  • Aillapan, L. & R. Rozzi. 2004. Una etno-ornitología mapuche contemporánea: poemas alados de los bosques nativos de Chile. Ornitología Neotropical 15: 419-434.
  • Massardo, F. & R. Rozzi. 2004. Etno-ornitología yagán y lafkenche en los bosques templados de Sudamérica austral. Ornitología Neotropical 15: 395-407.
  • Rozzi, R. 2004. Integrando los modos de conocer y convivir con la diversidad cultural. Ambiente y Desarrollo XX (1): 83-85.
  • Rozzi, R., F Massardo, C Anderson & J. Silander Jr. 2004. Ten Dimensions of a Biocultural Conservation Approach at the Austral Tip of the Americas. Sustainable Communities Review: in press.
  • Rozzi, R., R. Charlin, S. Ippi & O. Dollenz. 2004. Cabo de Hornos: un parque nacional libre de especies exóticas en el confín de América. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, Serie Ciencias Naturales 32: in press.
  • McGehee, S., Rozzi, R., S. Ippi, C. Anderson, R. Vásquez & S. Woodland. 2004. Late-Summer presence of the Patagonian Tyrant, Colorhamphus parvirostris (Darwin) in Navarino Island, Cape Horn County. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, Serie Ciencias Naturales 32: in press
  • Rozzi, R. 2004. Review of "Archipiélago Patagónico: La Última Frontera" by Mateo Martinic, 2004. Paperback edition, Ediciones de la Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia 32: in press.
  • R. Rozzi. 2005. Environmental Ethics and the Politics of Governmental Nature Protection: A View from Southern Chile. Mini-Conference on Environmental Ethics, Annual Meeting Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, San Antonio, TX, February 2005
  • Rozzi, R., M. Sherriffs, J.M. Draguicevic, S. Ippi, C. Anderson, M. Acevedo, X. Arango, J. Plana, E. Cortés & F. Massardo. 2004. Desde la ciencia hacia la conservación: el programa de educación y ética ambiental del Parque Etnobotánico Omora. International Symposium "Traspaso del conocimiento ecológico a la sociedad." II Reunión Binacional de Ecología. Mendoza, Argentina. November 1-5, 2004.
  • Arango X. & R. Rozzi. 2004. El Carpintero Gigante (Campephilus magellanicus): una especie carismática al fin del mundo. II Reunión Binacional de Ecología. Mendoza, Argentina. November 1-5, 2004.
  • Troncoso, A., J.J. Armesto, R. Rozzi, X. Arango & M. Carmona. 2004. Hacia una experiencia de comunicación e irradiación del conocimiento científico de primera mano en los archipiélagos del sur de Chile. II Reunión Binacional de Ecología. Mendoza, Argentina. November 1-5, 2004.
  • Ippi, S., R. Rozzi, J.C. Aravena, D. Christie, A. Gutiérrez & W. Buck. 2004. Diversidad y cobertura de musgos, hepáticas y líquenes epífitos en tres especies de Nothofagus en bosques subantárticos de Cabo de Hornos (55° S). II Reunión Binacional de Ecología. Mendoza, Argentina. November 1-5, 2004.
  • Christie, D. A. Gutiérrez, J.C. Aravena, J.J. Armesto & R. Rozzi. 2004. Estructura bosques Nothofagus en la isla Navarino. II Reunión Binacional de Ecología. Mendoza, Argentina. November 1-5, 2004.
  • Rozzi R. 2005. Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos - Resumen Ejecutivo. Conferencia en Taller UNESCO Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos. CONAF - Gobernación Provincia Antártica Chilena y UMAG, Punta Arenas, Chile. January 19, 2009
  • Rozzi R. 2004. Diversos lentes para conocer y valorar la Reserva de Biosfera Cabo de Hornos. Conferencia en APEC-Turismo Magallanes 2004. Liceo C-8, Puerto Williams, Chile. October 14, 2004
  • Rozzi, R. 2004. Consubstanciación: un concepto central en "Archipiélago Patagónico: La Última Frontera" de Mateo Martinic. Salón Antártico, Universidad de Magallanes. Punta Arenas, August 6, 2004.
  • Co-cordinator (with Paulina Julio, Francisca Massardo, Eduardo Barros, and José Retamales) of the workshop "Science and Sustainable Tourism in the Chilean Sub-Antarctic Region," part of the Asian Pacific Economic Community (APEC) - Tourism Meeting in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Instituto Antártico Chileno, Universidad de Magallanes, Gobernación Provincia Antártica Chilena & Fundación Omora. Puerto Williams & Punta Arenas, October 14-16, 2004.
  • Co-coordinator (with Mitzi Acevedo) of the workshop "EcoTourism in the Cape Horn Region," Fundación Omora, with the support of CORFO. Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Puerto Williams, October 11-13, 2004.
  • Co-coordinator (with Andrea Troncoso) of the workshop "Taller de Ética Ambiental para Estudios de Campo", Fundación Senda Darwin & Fundación Omora. Project Indaga-acción científica de nuestro entorno: distintas especies, distintas culturas y distintos puntos de vista. Programa EXPLORA-CONICYT ED8/03/025. August 13, 2004.
  • Co-coordinator (with Juan Draguicevic ) of the course "Indagación en los patios de escuelas, jardines públicos y privados de Punta Arenas. " Fundación Omora & Comisión Nacional para el Medio Ambiente (CONAMA XII-Región). Escuela Villa Las Nieves, Punta Arenas, June 19-23, 2004.
  • Co-coordinator of the course "Indagación Múltiples Especies - Múltpiles Perspectivas en el Entorno Cotidiano de Puerto Wiliams" with Juan Draguicevic. Fundación Omora & Comisión Nacional para el Medio Ambiente (CONAMA XII-Región). Jardín Infantil Multiétnico Vila Ukika & Parque Etnobotánico Omora, Puerto Williams, June 6-9, 2004.
  • Co-researcher (coordinator of the Environmental Ethics Sub-project) in Evaluation of biological diversity under the perspective of the Ecosystem Approach of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the basis of the example of the island Navarino, German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Grant No FKZ 01 LM 0208, August 2003-August 2006.
  • Co-researcher (with focus on ethno-ornithology, biocultural conservation, and environmental ethics), Grant No. P02-051-F ICM, Millennium Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Research on Biodiversity (CMEB), December 2003- December 2006
  • Co-researcher in Inventory conservation of the Bryoflora of South-Western Patagonia, Darwin Initiative, UK, (September 2004-September 2007).
  • Principal Investigator of Levantamiento Biofísico, Zonificación y Turismo, with EUROCHILE Foundation, Corporación de Fomento (CORFO), December 2003 - October 2004.
  • Co-researcher of Indaga-acción científica de nuestro entorno: distintas especies, distintas culturas y distintos puntos de vista. Programa EXPLORA-CONICYT ED8/03/025. January 2004- March 2005.
  • Co-PI with Miguel Manislla (PI) in Sistemas de Apoyo Espacial para la Toma de Decisiones. Programa de Investigación Universidad de Magallanes. May 2003-May 2005.

Martin Yaffe

  • "Historicism and Revelation in Emil Fackenheim's Self-Distancing from Leo Strauss," Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL, December 20, 2004
  • "Benedict Spinoza on Checks and Balances in Biblical Law," Dallas Jewish Bar Association, Dallas, TX, June 18, 2004
  • "Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job," Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA, November 5, 2004
  • "Moses Maimonides on the Book of Job," Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Maimonides' Death, Southern Methodist University, November 17, 2004
  • "Joseph and his Brothers," 8-session adult-education course, based on Robert D. Sacks' Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1990) for Beyt Midrash of Dallas, September through December of 2004.
  • Currently co-editing a volume of essays on the philosophical dimension in Fackenheim's Jewish thought.