Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Spring 2004 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • "The Physicist, the Apostle, and the Shamans Journey." Texas State University Philosophy Department, San Marcos, TX. February 2004.
  • "Shamans and Sacrifices to the Gods." Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. " Irving, TX March 2004. (Refereed)
  • "What Happened on the Way to Emmaus? "Society for Biblical Literature, Southwestern. Irving, TX March 2004. (Refereed)
  • "On the Origin of Human Evil." American Academy of Religion, Southwestern. Irving, TX, March 2004. (Refereed)
  • "The Persistent Anthropomorphic Narrative." New Mexico - West Texas Philosophical Society. San Antonio, TX, March 2004. (Refereed)
  • January 2004. Interviewed by writer for Detroit News on The State and Biblical Versions of Marriage. Column is syndicated through Gannett and Creators Syndicate.
  • "When Good Neighbors Strongly Disagree: the Decalogue in the Courthouse and Darwin in the Schools." Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Denton, TX, February 2004.

 

J. Baird Callicott

  • Co-edited textbook: Environmental Philosophy:From Animal Rights to Social Ecology, fourh edition, with Michael E. Zimmerman, Irene Klaver, Karen J. Warren, and John Clark (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice hall, 2004)
  • Anthologized article: "The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics: Forging a New Discourse" in Robert J. Goldstei, ed., Environmental Ethics and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004)
  • Powerpoint presentation: "Environmental Ethics: The Birth of a New Fieldof Philosophy" Dallas Bar Association, Environmental Law Section, Dallas, TX, January 22, 2004.
  • "Is Rolston's Theory of Intrinsic Value Objectivist or Subjectivist?"--American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena California, March 26, 2004.
  • Powerpoint presentations for Denison University, Granville, Ohio, April 7 & 8, 2004.
    • "Environmental Ethics: The Birth of a New Field of Philosophy" and
    • "Should Endangered Species Have Standing?: Explicit and Implicit Values in the Endangered Species Act of 1973."
  • Powerpoint presentation: "Should Endangered Species Have Standing?: Explicit and Implicit Values in the Endangered Species Act of 1973" Middlebury College, VT, April 29, 2004
  • Presentations to the Leadership and Natural Resource Management course in the Hispanic Leadership Program in Agriculture and Natural Resources, the University of Texas, San Antonio (downtown campus), San Antonio, TX, May 2, 2004.
    • "The Leopold Land Ethic" and
    • "The Ojibwa Land Ethic"
  • Book chapter: "The role of Intrinsic Values for the Naturalization of the City," in Luigi Fusco Girard, Bruno Forte, Maria Cereta, Pasquale Toro, and Fabiana Forte, editors, The Human Sustainable City: Challenges and Perspectives from the Habitat Agenda (Ashgate Publishing Ltd.: Aldershot, 2004): 107-120.

 

Pete A.Y. Gunter

 

Eugene C. Hargrove

  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 26, no. 1 (2004): 1-112.
  • "Rolston on Intrinsic Value and Natural Beauty," Invited Symposium: The Environmental Philosophy of Holmes Rolston III, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Pasadena, Calif., March 25, 2004.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Dallas County, Texas, April 20, 2004.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 26, no. 2 (2004): 113-224.

 

George A. James

 

Irene J. Klaver

  • Received the Dixon Foudation Grant for the development of a Philosophy of Water Issues Program. Mission of the Program: To approach water issues at the interface of cultural, social-political, economic, ethical, philosophical and scientific analyses. September 1, 2003 through August 31, 2006; $100,000 a year.
  • Submitted a grant proposal to the Dutch National Science Foundation-NWO with Dr. Jozef Keulartz of the Applied Philosophy department of Wageningen University in the Netherlands: Boundaries, Barriers, and Bridges: A Comparative Case Study of Water Governance: Coastal Zone Management in East Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Water Resource Management in East Texas. It involves collaboration between two Dutch universities: University of Nijmegen and Wageningen University; two American universities: University of North Texas and Trinity University in San Antonio (Professor John Donahue of the Anthropology Department) and scientists and Non Governmental Organizations in Indonesia.
  • Researching philosophy of water issues while attending various conferences, such as: "Water for a Sustainable and Secure Future," 4th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment, Washington, DC, January 29-30, 2004 and "The State of Water in the World," Rice University, Houston, April 1-4, 2004.
  • Extensive research for Ranching and the Race to Save the Range, a one-hour documentary film, suitable for PBS or cable broadcast. I am researcher and co-producer of the video. Melinda Levin, Professor at RVTF, is director. The documentary explores the controversy over ranching and rangeland management in arid lands. It examines environmental stewardship, the culture of ranching families and communities, collaborations between ranchers, environmentalists and governmental agencies, and the use of grazing animals to improve land and water situations.
  • "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. Organized a panel for graduate students for this conference about philosophy of water issues.
  • "Water Under Fire: Watershed/Fireshed," presentation with Dwight Barry, Society for Ecological Restoration, Victoria, BC, Canada, August 24-27, 2004

Martin D. Yaffe

  • "Natural Law in Maimonides?" will appear shortly in St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition, ed. John Goyette et al. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004), 66-73.
  • His review-essay on Leon R. Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, appeared in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 31 (2003): 85-92.
  • He read two papers at the American Academy of Religion Southwest Region meeting in Irving, TX, in March, 2004: "Heroes and Love-Gods in Shakespeare's and Branagh's Much Ado about Nothing," and "The Christian-Jewish Dialogue in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1670)."
  • Participated in an eight-week session bi-weekly seminar on Judah Halevi's [1085-1141] philosophical-poetic dialogue about Judaism, The Kuzari: The Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion [c. 1130-40], conducted by Professor Joshua Parens, University of Dallas, and sponsored by Beit Midrash of Dallas.