Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Spring 2003 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "The Ambiguity of Sacrifices." International Festival of Religion and Literary Art . Baylor U, Waco, TX. March 2003. (Refereed)
  • "Dreams and the Early Evolution of Religion" Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. Irving, TX. March 2003. (Refereed)
  • "Atonement and Tragedy: A Naturalistic Interpretation." North Texas Philosophical Association. Sherman, TX. March 2003. (Refereed)
  • "Can Ethics be Both Subjective and Objective?" New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society. Santa Fe, NM. April 2003.
  • Grant awarded for summer 2003 - Miracles: Cosmos or Chaos? University of North Texas - $2,500.
  • Campus Freethought Alliance - online philosophical and religious dialogue

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • "Environmental Ethics: The Birth of a New Branch of Philosophy and Its Relationship to Environmental Science" -- powerpoint presentation to United States Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, TX, February 11, 2003.
  • Served as external reviewer of the Philosophy/Religion Studies and Environmental Studies Department of Pace University in New York City, April 24-25, 2003.
  • "Il Ruolo del Valore Intrinseco per la Naturalizzazione della Città," in Luigi Fusco Girard, Bruno Forte, Maria Cerreta, Pasquale de Toro, and Fabiana Forte, eds., L'uomo e la Città. Verso Uno Sviluppo Umano e Sostenibile (Napoli, 2003): 269-281.
  • "Wetland Gloom, Wetland Glory," Philosophy and Geography 6 (2003): 33-45.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

  • "Ecology, Art, and the Saving of Peach Creek", Meadows Museum of Art at Southern Methodist University, January 28, 2003.
  • "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

  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 25, no. 1 (2003): 1-112.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 25, no. 2 (2003): 113-224.

 

George A. James

  • "Pandurang Shastri Atavale," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Auroville" in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Swadhyaya Movement," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Appiko Movement" in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (New York and London: Continuum) forthcoming.
  • "Environment and Environmental Movements in India," in Hinduism in Modern Times (Denver CO and Oxford UK: ABC-CLIO) forthcoming.

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • "Language at Large: The Nature of Translation," one of two papers for an Invited Symposium on Epistemological Issues in Environmental Philosophy, American Philosophical Association (APA), San Francisco, March 2003.
  • "Silent Springs: Cultural Imagination of Water," The effects of water-scarcity on the cultural perception of water. Paper for "Local Water, Global Water: A Conference on Resources, Conservation, Advocacy" at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, May 2003.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • "Spinoza on Covenant and Scriptural Hermeneutics." American Academy of Religion Southwest Region. Irving, Tex. March 2003.
  • "George Grant's Challenge to Leo Strauss: The Case of Spinoza." McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. March 2003.
  • "Jewish Identity and the Book of Genesis." Eight Lectures. Beyt Midrash of Dallas (Jewish Adult-Education Foundation). January-May, 2003.