"The new can bear fruit only when it grows from the seeds implanted in tradition." --Paul Tillich

presents Preservation, Principles, and the Riverbed of Practical Thought

A Lecture by Tom Birch University of Montana Monday, October 16 EESAT 176 7:30 p.m.

Birch explores the problem of establishing ethical guidelines for practical living in the "anything-goes" postmodern era. He begins with the Wittgensteinian metaphor of the riverbed of empirical thought and moves toward establishing the Leopoldian preservation principle, using a now reconceived argument from the tradition of philosophical ethics.

Tom Birch is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy from the University of Montana, where he taught environmental philosophy. He is a long-standing defender of wilderness and a champion of wildness. He is a former book review editor of the journal Environmental Ethics.   Lecture is free and open to the public. For special accommodation, call 565-2266.

CEP - PHIL - UNT - October 11, 2000