A conference Environmental Ethics: Emerging Issues will be held at the University of North Texas from 3 to 5 April 1998. It will begin at 1:30 p.m. Friday and conclude at 12:00 noon Sunday. It is sponsored by the Center for Environmental Philosophy. It will be the first conference to be held in the new Environment Education, Science, and Technology Building, Room 110, the new home of the UNT Environmental Ethics Program, the Center for Environmental Philosophy, and the journal Environmental Ethics.

Speakers include Tom Birch (Emeritus) of the University of Montana, J. Baird Callicott of the University of North Texas, Pete Gunter of the University of North Texas, Eugene C. Hargrove, editor of the journal Environmental Ethics, George James of the University of North Texas, Eric Katz of the New Jersey Institute of Technollgy, Max Oelschaleger of the University of North Texas, Holmes Rolston, III of Colorado State University, and Martin Yaffe of the University of North Texas.

Program

Max Oelschlaeger: The Role of Environmental Ethics in Environmental Policy and Management

Eric Katz: A Pragmatic Reconsideration of Anthropocentrism

Tom Birch: Wittgensteinian Riverbed Propositions in Environmental Ethics

Eugene C. Hargrove: Is Environmental Ethics Traditional or Radical?

George A. James: Images of India in Environmental Philosophy

Martin Yaffe: Judaism and the Environment Crisis: A Three-Way Interaction

Pete Gunter: Developing the Regional Land Ethic

Holmes Rolston, III: Why Nature is Real: A Response to the Social Constructionists

J. Baird Callicott: Multiculturalism and Grand Narratives in Environmental Ethics

The program will be held on the University of North Texas campus. The conference is open to the public but registration is required. Registration is free. To register, send an email to cep@unt.edu.

Program Schedule - General Information

For more information or to register, contact:

The Center for Environmental Philosophy
P.O. Box 310980, University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-0980.

940/565-2727; 940/565-4439 (fax); cep@unt.edu