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2003 Annual Program
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
Seventh Annual Meeting
November 8-10, 2003
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Facilities, Accommodations and Registration:
All sessions will be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington
Street, Boston, MA. Group accommodation rates are available at the hotel
for $160 per room. Telephone: 1-800-225-2008. To receive these rates,
participants must identify themselves as attending the IAEP/SPEP conference
and make their reservations by October 6. Conference registration will
take place on Saturday evening from 7:30 to 8:00, outside the Whittier
Room on the 4th floor, and on Sunday morning from 9:00 to 10:00 outside
the St. James room. Please note the different registration locations
on Saturday and Sunday!
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Saturday 8:00 P.M.
IAEP GUEST SPEAKER
“The Best Science Money Can Buy: Nontransparent Science
and the
2003 Demise of UN Radiation Protection”
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of
Biology, University of Notre Dame.
Professor Shrader-Frechette has published more than 280 articles and
14 books, including Risk and Rationality; Nuclear Energy and Ethics;
Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of
Nuclear Waste; Method in Ecology and Technology and Human Values. She
serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press monograph series
on Environmental Ethics and Science Policy.
The Whittier Room, 4th Floor.
Moderator: Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, University of Toronto
RECEPTION
Saturday 9:30 P.M.
The White Hill Room (across from The Whittier Room)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Registration: St. James Room
9:00 - 10:30 A.M.
Special Workshop on Teaching Environmental Philosophy:
St. James Room
Workshop Moderator: Robert Kirkman, Georgia Institute of Technology
MORNING SESSIONS: 10:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Session I: Awareness of Animals
Stuart Room
Moderator: Ken Liberman, University of Oregon
• “A Dog’s Gaze Causes Me No Embarrassment:” Merleau-Ponty
and the Politics of Life, Phillip McReynolds, Gonzaga University
• “The Limits of Anthropocentric Arguments for the Moral Status
of Animals,” Gary Steiner, Bucknell University
• “Vegetarian Ethics, Practices of the Self and Environmental
Politics,” Joseph J. Tanke, Boston College
• “Is Sympathy Enough? Schopenhauer on Animals,” Marc
Lucht, Kenyon College
Session II: Heidegger and Environmental Thinking
St. James Room
Moderator: Ken Maly, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• “Heidegger and the Problem of Interpreting the Environment
as a Field of Assignment-Relations,” Scott Cameron, Loyola Marymount
University
• “The Ecological Significance of Nature in Daoism and Heidegger,”
Eric Sean Nelson, King College (Bristol)
• “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Earth and World in Poetry
and Prose,” Dennis Skocz, Independent Scholar
Session III: Modifying our Ways of Thinking
Lexington Room
Moderator: Ben Hale, SUNY at Stony Brook
• “Non-Sustainability and the Math-based Vision of Nature,”
Nathan Batalian, Binghamton University
• “Gadamer’s Conception of Language and Environmental
Education,” Mauro Grun, University of Caxias do Sul
• “Invasion from Without, Disruption from Within, and a View
from Nowhere,” Philip Lewin, University of Oregon
• “Bonum est: The Role that Natural Law Theory Plays,”
Robert Grant, Ambrose University
AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 2:30-4:30 P.M.
Session I: Place, Space and Wildness
St. James Room
Moderator: Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
• “The Epistemic Importance of Place,” Nathan Andersen,
Eckerd College
• “Revealing the Whole: Lessons from Bill Hillier’s
Space Syntax,” David Seamon, Kansas State University
• “Crowded Solitude: from Wilderness to Wildness,” Robert
Chapman, Pace University
Session II: Environmental Policy and Its Foundations
Stuart Room
Moderator: Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington
• “J. Baird Callicott’s Subjectivist, Sentiments-based
Environmental Ethic,” Darren Domsky, York University
• “Norton, Callicott and Leopoldian Environmental Pragmatism,”
Avram Hiller, Duke University
• “The Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy,” Robert
Frodeman, University of Colorado/CIRES
• “The Qualitative Aspects of Precaution: Towards a Better
Definition of the Precautionary Principle,” Jennifer Wells, University
of California (Berkeley)
Session III: Levinas and Scheler
Lexington Room
Moderator: David Wood, Vanderbilt University
• “Effacing Nature: Levinas’ Erasure of the Other-than-Human,”
Christian Diehm, Villanova University
• “Ethics, Paganism and the Mystery of the Earth,” Brian
Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology
• “Vital Sympathy and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics,”
John White, Franciscan University
Sunday 5:00-6:00 P.M.
IAEP BUSINESS MEETING: St. James Room
IAEP SYMPOSIUM: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS
Monday 9:00-11:00 A.M.
Session I: Nature, Beauty, Interplay
St. James Room
Moderator: Silvia Benso, Sienna College
• “The
Art of Ambling: Environmental Aesthetics on the Move,” David Macauley,
Oberlin College
• “Techne and Phusis: The Aesthetics
of Trace in Andrew Goldsworthy,” James Hatley, Salisbury State
University
• “Aesthetic Play and Ecological Ethics,”
Jacob Metcalf, Kalamazoo College
Monday 11:10-1:10 P.M.
Session II: Environmental Aesthetics
as Philokalia
St. James Room
Moderator: Christopher Dustin, College of the Holy Cross
• “Shook Foil and Trodden Sod: Nature, Beauty and the Mystical,”
Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College
• “Deep Ecology, the
Problem of Moral Paralysis and the Promise of Whitehead’s Kalocentric
Worldview,” Brian G. Henning, FordhamUniversity
•
“Beauty Beyond Appearance, Love without Desire: Experiencing the Numinous
in Nature,” Joseph Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross