Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Spring 2002 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "The Polyphonic Novel and Scientific Objectivity." A Symposium on Rhetoric: Rhetoric in a Changing World. Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX. February 2002. (Refereed)
  • "Monotheism's Dualistic Anthropology." Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. Irving, TX. March 2002. (Refereed)
  • "The Unifying Principle in Empedocles, Plato, and Paul." Philosophers' Forum. Dallas, TX. March 2002 (Invited)
  • "Plato's Symposium and Early Christianity." Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Division. Irving, TX. March 2002. (Refereed)
  • "The Ultimate Will in Calvin and Schopenhauer." American Academy of Religion, Southwest Division. Irving, TX. March 2002. (Refereed)
  • "The Proliferation of Miracles." New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society's Presidential Address. Galveston, TX. April 2002. (Invited)
  • "On Viewing Dostoevsky as a Christian Novelist." Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature. Dayton, TN. April 2002. (Refereed)
  • Recipient of Carson-Newman College Distinguished Alumnus Award, April 2002.
  • "Religious Liberal, Conservative, and Right-Wing: The Tension Between General and Special Revelation." Carson-Newman College Address. Jefferson City, TN. April 2002. (Invited)
  • "Theodicy: Plato, Aquinas, and Brightman." Carson-Newman College Address. Jefferson City, TN. April 2002. (Invited)
  • "Religion in the Public Schools: Pros and Cons." Fort Worth Humanists. May 2002. (Invited)

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • A book of critical and celebratory essays by 21 authors focused on Callicott's work: Land, Value, and Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill, eds. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002).
  • "Myth and Environmental Philosophy," in Kevin Shilbrack, ed., Mythical Thinking: Philosophical Contributions to the Study of Myth (London: Routledge, 2002): 158-173
  • "From the Balance of Nature to the Flux of Nature: The Land Ethic in a Time of Change," in Richard L. Knight, ed., Aldo Leopold: An Ecological Conscience (Washington: Island Press, 2002): 91-105.
  • "Science, Value, and Ethics: A Hierarchical Theory," in Bob Pepperman Taylor and Ben Minteer, eds., Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (Lanham Mld: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002): 91-104.
  • "My Reply to Bowersox, Minteer, and Norton" in Bob Pepperman Taylor and Ben Minteer, eds., Democracy and the Claims of Nature: Critical Perspectives for a New Century (Lanham Mld: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002): 105-114.
  • "My Reply," in Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, ed. Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), pp. 291-329.
  • "The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics: Forging a New Discourse," Environmental Values 11 (2002): 3-25.
  • "Environmental Ethics," in Peter Timmerman, vol. ed. and Ted Munn, ed.-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change Volume 5: Social and Economic Dimensions of Environmental Change (London: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2002): 231-242
  • "A Critique of and an Alternative to the Wilderness Idea" in Tom Butler, ed., Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a Wolrd Out of Balance (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002): 172-186.
  • Coordinating Lead Author, Conceptual Framework Report, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (under the auspices of the United Nations)
  • Jan. 24, 2002: NSF Biocomplexity competition $3 million (resubmitted)
  • Service as Editor of SUNY Press Environmental Philosophy Book Series
  • Service as a referee for following journals: Ecological Economics, Ecosystem Health, Environmental Ethics--two papers, Environmental Values, Ethics and Environment--two papers
  • "Intrinsic Value in Nature: Theoretical and Pragmatic Perspectives" -- powerpoint presentation for the Boyd Lecture, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV, April 2, 2002.
  • "Is the Concept of Nature's Intrinsic Value Pragmatically Efficatious" -- powerpoint presentation for a joint Environmental Studies / Geography Department seminar; "Science, Value, and Ethics" -- paper for a Philosophy Department colloquium, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 18-19 2002.
  • "The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Philosophy" -- paper for On the Who, What, and Why of Moral Status conference, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, May 4, 2002.
  • (a) "Survey of Western Ethics" (b) "Conservation Philosophy, Values, and Ethics (c) "The Greening of Religion" (d) "Varieties of Environmental Ethics" (e) "A Sand County Almanac as Literature and Natural Aesthetics" -- all three-hour presentations/discussions for Ethics Across the Curriculum Faculty Summer Seminar: The Ethics of Ecology, Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley State University, Orem, UT, May 6-10, 2002.
  • "Lamark Redux: Temporal Scale as the Key fo the Boundary Between the Human and Natural Worlds" -- paper for Toward a Taxonomy of Boundaries conference, Emporia State University, Mattfield Green, KS, May 31, 2002.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • "Lamarckian Evolution, Epigenetic Mutations, and the Definition of Evolution", UNT Biology Department, April 3, 2002.
  • Southern Methodist University, April 9, 2002 titled "Leopold's Land Ethic, Texas, and the New Environmentalism."
  • "Philosophical Psychology and the Teaching of Philosophy" at the Central Division of the Society for Philosophy of Creativity and served as chairman of the annual board meeting of the Foundation for Philosophy of Creativity April 25, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois.

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 24, no. 1 (2002): 1-112.
  • "Environmental Ethics without a Metaphysics," in Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, ed. Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), pp. 135-49.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful," public lecture at East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma, April 1, 2002.
  • "Therapeutic Nihilism and Environmental Management," in David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, eds., Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 505-523. Reprint of chap. 5, Foundations of Environmental Ethics (Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books, 1996).
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 24, no. 2 (2002): 113-224.

 

George A. James

  • Four articles written and submitted to Continuum Press International (London and New York) which are to be published in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature: "Ralegon Siddhi," "Baba Amte," "Tehri Dam," and "Sunderlal Bahuguna."

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • "Born to be Wild; A Pluralistic Ethic Concerning Introduced Large Herbivores," Environmental Ethics, 24 (2002): 3-21.
  • Manuscript Reviewer for Natural Hazards
  • March 21-24, 2002 - Meeting at Biosphere II as 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, specifically water-issues.
  • Expert and local knowledge on groundwater issues in the Gulf Islands. Georgia Basin Digital Library Project Workshop, Geological Survey of Canada Vancouver B.C., May 14-17, 2002.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • "The Roots of Spinoza's Method of Bible Interpretation in Descartes' Discourse on Method." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, Tex. March, 2002.
  • "'Heaven Disarmed': Christian Soldiers in Shakespeare's Othello." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, Tex. March, 2002.