THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Second Annual Meeting

(Inaugural Conference)

October 11-12, 1998 Denver, CO

Registration

Sunday from 8:30-12:30 a.m. Conference registration is $15.00 (free for IAEP members)

Rooms are available for the night of October 11 for $85.00 single and $95.00 double at the Executive Tower Inn (800) 525-6651, where all meetings will be held (reserve by September 11), and at the Courtyard by Marriott (one block north of the conference hotel (888) 571-1141) for $89.00 single or double (reserve by September 24). For those also attending SPEP, rooms at the Executive Tower are available for the same rate beginning October 8 at the Executive Tower (reserve by September 7).

IAEP Executive Committee for 1997-98

Bruce Foltz (Eckerd College) President

Robert Frodeman (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga) Vice-President

Robert Mugerauer (University of Texas) Secretary

Kenneth Maly (University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse) Treasurer

Edward Casey (SUNY at Stony Brook) Executive Committee Member at Large
Michael Zimmerman (Tulane University) Executive Committee Member at Large

SUNDAY: SESSION I Experience, Embodiment, and Signification: Environmental Philosophy and Continental Philosophy (Longer Papers)

Moderator: Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College

9:00 a.m. Glen A. Mazis, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, "Merleau-Ponty's Lectures on Nature: A New Sense of Nature and Ethics"

9:45 a.m. Ted Toadvine, Kalamazoo College, "Environmental Sensibility and the Nature of Desire"

10:30 a.m. Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College, "The Greening of Postmodern Ethics: The Ethical Question of Reinhabiting the Earth"

11:15 a.m. Brian Schroeder, Siena College, "Bioregionalism and Territorialization"

Sunday afternoon, from 1:00 to 5:00, Donald Scherer (Bowling Green State University) will be demonstrating an interactive matrix for environmental conversation on the World Wide Web

SUNDAY: SESSION II Knowing Nature: Environmental Epistemology (Shorter Papers/Extended Discussion)

Moderator: John Kress, St. John's College, Annapolis

1:00 p.m. Robert Kirkman, University of New Hampshire, "Introduction to Environmental Skepticism"

1:40 p.m. Michael Zimmerman, Tulane University, "Difficulties Confronting Continental Environmental Philosophy"

2:20 p.m. Max Oelschlaeger, University of North Texas, "Representing Nature: Questions Concerning the Social Creation of Nature."

SUNDAY : SESSION III Nature and the Individual: Environmental Philosophy and American Philosophy (Longer Papers)

Moderator: Andrew Light, SUNY at Binghamton

3:00 p.m. Brice Wachterhauser, St. Joseph's University, "Nature, Teleology and the Individual: Thoreau's Walden"

3:45 p.m. Bruce Wilshire, Rutgers University, "William James, Black Elk, and the Healing Act"

SUNDAY : SESSION IV Development, Restoration, and Political Praxis: Environmental Philosophy in Europe and Africa (Longer Papers)

Moderator: Karim Benammar, Kobe University (Japan)

4:30 p.m. Robert Switzer, The American University in Cairo (Egypt), "Consuming Passions: Modernity and the Cult of Development"

5:10 p.m. Irene J. Klaver, Agricultural University of Wageningen (Netherlands), "New Nature in the Netherlands: Reintroduced Animals as Boundary Objects"

5:50 p.m. Johan Hedrén and Thomas Achen, University of Linkoping (Sweden),"On the Role of Political Philosophy in Environmental Ethics: The Case of the Liquidation of Atomic Energy in Sweden"

SUNDAY 6:30 p.m. BUSINESS MEETING

SUNDAY 9:00 p. m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Alphonso Lingis, The Pennsylvania State University, "Bestiality"

SUNDAY 10:00 p.m. RECEPTION

MONDAY SESSION I On the Nature of Nature: Environmental Philosophy and the Philosophical Tradition (Shorter Papers/Panel Discussion)

Moderator: Diane Michelfelder, Utah State University

8:30 a.m. Felix O'Murchadha, University of Wuppertal (Germany) "Life, Eternity, Time"

8:50 a.m. Patricia Glazebrook, Colgate University, "Eco-Logic: An Erotic of Nature"

9:10 a.m. Nathan Andersen, The Pennsylvania State University, "Aristotle on the Ontology of Animal Places"

9:30 a.m. Elaine Miller, DePaul University, "Blossoming Forth: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in German Romanticism and Idealism"

9:50 a.m. Timothy C. Huson, Maryville University, "Anthropocentrism and the Intrinsic Value of Nature in the Work of Hans Jonas"

10:10 a.m. Panel Discussion

MONDAY SESSION II

Getting Our Hands Dirty: Environmental Philosophy and the Life-World (Shorter Papers/Panel Discussion)

Moderator: Carl Mitcham, The Pennsylvania State University

11:00 a.m. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, University of Toronto, "Codes of Ethics: Opportunities for--or a Violation of--Environmental Phenomenology?"

11:20 a.m. Randall Honold, DePaul University, "Between Instrumentalism and Sentiment: Teaching (in) the Urban Environment"

11:40 a.m. Mark Levensky, Evergreen State University, "Wildlife"

12:00 a.m. Panel Discussion

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