Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at UNT


 

Spring 2005 Faculty Activities



Joe Barnhart

  • Winner of the Southwest Commission on Religion Studies’ John D. Gammie Distinguished Scholar Award (one awarded each year for a scholar “recognized by [his or her] peers nationally or internationally for the quality and importance of [his or her] work.” Irving, TX March 2005.
  • Editor of Dostoevsky’s Polyphonic Talent. University Press of America, 2005.
  • "Paul's Cosmic Jesus." America Academy of Religion, Southwest Division. Irving, TX, March 2005. (Refereed)
  • "Facts and Values: A Theory of Interactionism." Association for the Scientific Study of Religion." Irving, TX March 2005. (Refereed)
  • "Acknowledged Fabrications in 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 Kings 1-2: Clues to the Wider Story's Composition." Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Division, Irving, TX, March 2005. (Refereed)
  • "Tsunami and Theodicy." Plano West Rotary Club, Plano, TX January 2005.
  • Debater on the First Amendment, Defending Church-State Separation. UT Arlington. Arlington, TX January 2005.
  • "Future of Roman Catholicism." TV interview. University of North Texas, Denton, TX February 2005.
  • "The Pope's Influence." Interviewed by reporters from the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Denton Record Chronicle, and KRLP Radio. April 2005.
  • "Psychosis and Religion." Interviewed by WBAP Radio. Dallas, TX May 2005.
  • "Prayer and Healing: Human Social Reinforcers." Interviewed by WBAP Radio. Dallas, TX May 2005.
  • "Authors' Review of Trust and Treachery: A Historical Novel of Roger Williams in America." Book Club at the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Denton, TX May 2005.

Robert Frodeman

  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) fellowship to visit Lancaster University, England in the spring of 2005, $8000.
  • "Space Policy and Humanities Policy," EOS, May 24, 2005.
  • "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.'On the Use and Abuse of Knowledge for Life,' IMLAB Postgraduate Conference, Lancaster University, April 29, 2005.
  • 'The Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy,' University of Wales, Bangor, April 8, 2005.
  • "Using Environmental Ethics in a Government Agency: A Personal Experience," Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, San Antonio, Texas, Feb 28, 2005.
  • "The Death of Environmentalism and After," Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, Feb 21, 2005.
  • "Philosophy of Science Policy" (guest editor, with Carl Mitcham), Philosophy Today special issue, 2005.

Eugene Hargrove

  • "Environmental Ethics and the Mars Society," Eighth International Mars Society Conference, Boulder, Colorado, August 14, 2005.
  • "The Role of Western Environmental Ethics in Non-Western Countries: West Meets East," Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) 20, no. 3 (2005): 77-81 (in Chinese translation).
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 27, no. 3 (2005): 225-336.
  • Issue of the journal Environmental Ethics, vol. 27, no. 4 (2005): 337-448.
  • Panelist, "Ethics Educatiion in Science and Engineering," NSF Funding Panel, May 19 to May 20, 2005, Alexandria, Virginia.
  • "Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: The History of Ideas behind Environmental Thought," Master Naturalist Program, Denton County, Texas, September 27, 2005.

J. Britt Holbrook

  • "National Science Foundation Second Merit Criterion" in The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (MacMillan Reference, 2005).
  • "Assessing the Science-Society Relationship: The Case of the US National Science Foundation's Second Merit Review Criterion," in Technology in Society (in press, available online 26 September 2005).
  • "Policy Dimensions of NSF's Criterion 2," with Robert Frodeman, in Ogmius (forthcoming).
  • "The Design of Design," with Carl Mitcham, in Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming).
  • Dr. Holbrook will be moderating a session titled "Phenomenology and Psychopathology" at the October 2005 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Martin D. Yaffe

  • Martin D. Yaffe's chapter, "Bible Translation and the Rhetoric of Theologico-Political Liberalism: The Case of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670)," appeared this spring in Similarity and Difference in Translation, ed. Stefano Arduini and Robert Hodgson, Jr., (Rimini, Italy: Guaraldi, 2004), 369-82.
  • His “Natural Law in Maimonides?” appeared late last fall in Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition, ed. John Goyette et al. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004), 66-73.
  • In January, Professor Yaffe introduced the Dallas premiere of a recent film version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Michael Radford, starring Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino, at Dallas’s Angelika Theater.
  • In February, he spoke to the Dallas Philosopher's Forum on “’Is God a Mathematician?’ Hans Jonas on the Philosophical Implications of Biology.”
  • In March, he read two papers at the American Academy of Religion Southwest Regional meeting: one for the Arts, Literature and Religion section, titled “Prospero’s Projector: Theology and Technology in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610) and John Gielgud’s Prospero’s Books (1991),” and another for the Philosophy of Religion and Theology section, titled “Philosophy and Midrash in Hans Jonas’ Existential Biology.”
  • Also in March, he gave a visiting lecture at Tulane University on “Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise (1670): The Philosophical Founding-Document of Modern Judaism.”
  • In April, he gave a visiting lecture at University of Dallas on "Benedict Spinoza (1632-77): The Philosophical Founder of Modern Judaism."
  • In May, he gave a talk in honor of the lifetime scholarly achievement of Ellis Rivkin, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Rare Book Room of the College's renowned Klau Library, on the occasion of the dedication of a shelf in the Library to Professor Rivkin's writings.