Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Spring 2001 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "A Humanist Look at the Bible" Videoed Presentation for Florida Humanists, January, 2001.
  • "Samuel the Seer-Priest as King Saul's Iago" Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest, March 2001.
  • "Between Tragedy and Gospel: Plato and Paul in Response to Tragedy" American Academy of Religion, Southwest, March 2001.
  • "Supralapsarian Calvinism: A Psychological Interpretation of Religious Violence" Association for the Scientific Study of Religion, March 2001.
  • "Darwin and the Golden Rule" New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society, April, 2001.
  • "The Evolution of Morality: A Darwinian Perspective on Kant and the Amity-Enmity Complex" The Philosophers Forum of Dallas, April, 2001.
  • Newly elected president of New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • "Black Elk 1862-1950," in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Environmental Thinkers (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 147-154.
  • "Aldo Leopold 1887-1948," in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Environmental Thinkers (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 174-180.
  • "Diversité culturelle," in Catherine Larrère, ed., Nature vive (Paris, Muséum d'histoire naturelle: Nathan, 2001), pp. 76-87.
  • "L'écologie déconstructiviste et la sociobiologie sapent-elles la Land ethic leopoldienne?" (traduit par Raphael G.Larrère), Les cahiers philosophique de Strasbourg, tome 10, Nature (Strasbourg: Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, 2001), pp. 133-163.
  • "Racines conceptuelles de la Land ethic" (traduit par Christophe Masutti), Les cahiers philosophique de Strasbourg, tome 10, Nature (Strasbourg, Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, 2001), pp. 165-201.
  • Coeditor, Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Social Ecology, 3rd ed., with Michael E. Zimmerman, George Sessions, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001).
    • "Introduction" to Part One in Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, 3rd ed., ed. J. Baird Callicott, Michael E. Zimmerman, George Sessions, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001), pp. 7-16.
    • "Holistic Environmental Ethics and the Problem of Ecofascism" in Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, 3rd ed., ed. J. Baird Callicott, Michael E. Zimmerman, George Sessions, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001), pp. 111-125.
    • "Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Back Together Again," in Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, 3rd ed., ed. J. Baird Callicott, Michael E. Zimmerman, George Sessions, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001), pp. 147-156.
  • "Environmental Ethics: An Overview," for Forum on Ecology and Religion Research, Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, http://environment.harvard.edu/religion/research/Ethics/overview.htm
  • "Environmental Ethics: Selected Bibliography," for Forum on Ecology and Religion Research, Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, http://environment.harvard.edu/religion/research/Ethics/Bibliography.html
  • "Current Issues in Environmental Philosophy," for Religions of the World and Ecology, http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/ecology/callic2.htm (2001).
  • "The Puritan Origins of the American Wilderness Movement," with Priscilla Solis Ybarra, for Teacherserve: An Interactive Curriculum Enrichment Service for Teachers, National Humanities Center, http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/puritan.html (2001)
  • Co-editor with John Van Buren of a new book series in of the State University of New York Press in environmental philosophy.
  • Associate Editor of the journal Ecosystem Health.
  • Member of editorial board of a new electronic journal of environmental studies, Common Ground.
  • Member of editorial board 2001- Journal of Science and Humanities.

    About J. Baird Callicott:

  • Chapter written by Ann Becher, with Kyle McClure, Rachel White Scheuering and Julia Willis, "Callicott, J. Baird," in American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present, vol. 1 (of two) (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC CLIO, 2001).
  • "J. Baird Callicott, 1941-" in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Environmental Thinkers (London: Routledge, 2001).

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • "Paul Feyerabend: Charlatan or Genius?" Dallas Philosopher's Forum, LBJ and Midway (Denny's Restaurant) Dallas, March 27, 2001.
  • "The Big Thicket: Then, Now, and Later. And What. And Where? " Joint Environmental Science/Environmental Philosophy Seminar, UNT campus, EESAT Building, March 30, 2001.
  • Published "Seeing in the Dark: Motor Space and the Status of Visual Imagery," Annales d'histoire et de philosophie du vivant 3 (2000): 155-163.
  • "A Response to Professor Fidgeby's Treatment of Linguistic Millieu," Society for Philosophy of Creativity (Meeting Concurrently With the American Philosophical Association, Central Division) Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 2001.
  • Review of "The New Bergson," edited by John Mullarkey, May 2001 issue of Modern and Contemporary France.
  • "Possibility, Probability and Professor Auxier's Modal Logic," Central Division of the Society for Philosophy of Creativity, May 3, 2001, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Represented the Big Thicket Association at the National Park Service Conference, Stewardship, The Art of Collaboration, May 13-16, 2001, Keystone, Colorado.

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 23, no. 1 (2001): 1-112.
  • "Environmental Education: Toward Teaching Environmental Ethics," public lecture at University of Joensuu, March 19, 2001, Joensuu, Finland.
  • "Nature Aesthetics: Why We Think Nature is Beautiful," public lecture oat University of Joensuu, March 20, 2001, Joensuu, Finland.
  • Panelist, "Decision Making and Values in Environmental Policy," NSF/EPA, April 2 to 3, 2001, Washington, D.C.
  • "Sorge in Heidegger and Goethe's Faust," Annual Heidegger Conference, April 19, 2001, University of North Texa, Denton, Texas.
  • Visiting Scholar, "The Evolution of Environmental Thought and Ethics," NEH Summer Institute: "Environmental Ethics and Issues: Alaska as a Case Study," May 28 to June 1, 2001, University of Alaska, Anchorage: lecture, seminar, workshop, May 28; lecture and seminar, May 29; roundtable discussion, May 30.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 23, no. 2 (2001): 113-224.

 

George A. James

  • Invited Key Note address at a conference on "Indigenous Methods of Forest Management" at the Indian Institute of Forest Management in Bopal, February 8-10, 2001. Unable to attend, but composed an address for this occasion, "Environmental Ethics and the Significance of Indigenous Indic Traditions of Forest Resource Management" which was delivered to the conference.
  • "Nishitani and Heidegger Revisited," Annual Heidegger Conference, University of North Texas, April 21, 2001.

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • "Taking Interdisciplinarity Seriously" interdisciplinary forum at "Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Sciene, and the Environment," University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 25-27, 2001.
  • "Xunos (Together): Heraclitus and Jean-Luc Nancy's Ontology of 'Being-With'" at Western Phenomenology Conference at American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March 2001.
  • March 2001, Consolidation of the initiative to make the University of North Texas member of The Mexico-North Research Network, an international consortium of universities, museums, research institutes, and cultural centers that share an interest in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and a desire to collaborate on interdisciplinary projects focused on this region. UNT Representative of the Mexico-North Consortium.
  • April, 2001, Exploration of possible collaborative studies and education with Universidad Mixteca and Universidad del Mar in Oaxaca, Mexico. Meeting with Modesto Seara, Rector of these Universities, David Hartman, Dean of Community Service, Tom La Point, Director Institute of Applied Sciences and faculty of Engineering and Computer Sciences. Designing with Tom LaPoint a course on Water Issues focusing on local watershed study, sustainability, eco-tourism, biotic reserve establishment, waste (and land) management, pertinent to the Oaxaca situation.
  • "Stone Worlds," at The Annual Heidegger Symposium, University of North Texas, April 2001.
  • "The Culture of Land Art," Invited Earthday Lecture at Interdisciplinary Faculty Nature/Culture Seminar at Vanderbilt University, April, 2001.
  • Inititative with Ken Dickson to explore the establishment of an interdisciplinary Track in Ecological Restoration and Management at UNT, in cooperation with Faculty from Biology, Environmental Science, Philosophy, Geography and Community Service.
  • "Anarchic Beginnings," International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, May, 2001.
  • Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Ethics Journal.
  • Manuscript Reviewer for Philosophy and Geography.

Richard M. Owsley

  • 2001 Heidegger Symposium at University of North Texas, April 18-21, 2001.
  • Talks on the Meaning of Philosophic Faith at the Spring Session of the Karl Jaspers' Society of North America in San Francisco at the APA-Pacific Division meeting, March 29 to April 2, 2001.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • "Un-Christian Husbands in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew," American Academy of Religion Southwest meeting, Irving, Texas, March 17, 2001.
  • Panel Moderator, "Spirit, Religion, Self," American Academy of Religion Southwest meeting, March 17, 2001.
  • "Another Look at Shakespeare's Jewish Play," Yom Ha-Shoach ["Holocaust Day"] Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 23, 2001.
  • Co-taught a seven-session seminar on the scholarship of Leo Strauss on Moses Maimonides [1135-1204] and Benedict Spinoza [1632-77] (with Joshua Parens, Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas) under the auspices of Beyt Midrash, a Dallas institution for Jewish higher learning, January-May.
  • Blind-reviewer for articles submitted to two scholarly journals, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy and Review of Politics.