Tuesday, May 31
7-9 pm:
Environmental Virtue Ethics:
Phil Cafaro (Colorado State University), "Gluttony, Arrogance, Greed, and Apathy: An Exploration of Environmental Vice"
Holmes Rolston III (Colorado State University), "Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole"
Ronald Sandler (Northeastern University), "Introduction: Environmental Virtue Ethics"
Wednesday, June 1
9-10 am:
Thomas Nail (Oregon), "Merleau Ponty and the Metaphysics of Virtual Reality: Flesh or Nature Machine?"
Comments by Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)
10:15-11:15 am
Petra Andersson ( Goteborg, Sweden), "Is Genetic Engineering Unnatural?"
Comments by Adam Briggle (Colorado)
11:30 am -1 pm
Aristotle, Foster, and Katz on Environmental Ethics
Sarah Kenehan (Tennessee), "Reconsidering Foster's Aristotelian Environmental Ethic"
Keith Bustos (Tennessee), "The Nature of Artifacts: An Aristotelian Response to Katz"
Comments by Ralph Acampora (Hofstra)
7-9 pm
Environmental Philosophy and Public Policy
Robert Frodeman (North Texas)
Eugene Hargrove (North Texas)
Dale Jamieson (New York University)
Thursday, June 2
9-10 am
Paul Moriarty (Longwood State), "Nature Naturalized: A Darwinian Defense of the Nature/Culture Distinction"
Comments by Darren Domsky (Auburn)
10:15-11:15 am
Elisa Aaltola (Turku, Finland), "Personhood and Animals: Three Approaches"
Comments by Marc Bekoff (Biology, Colorado)
11:30 am -1 pm
Normativity in Environmental Ethics
Avram Hiller (North Carolina), "A Quasi-Realist Environmental Ethic"
Vicki Weafer (Columbia), "A Biological Critique of Natural Normativity"
Comments by Katie McShane (North Carolina State)
Friday, June 3
9-10 am
William Throop & Rebecca Purdom (Green Mountain College), "Wilderness Restoration: The Paradox of Public Participation"
Comments by Amy Knisley (Colby-Sawyer)
10:15-11:15 am
Ben Hale (NYU), "Crossing the Property Line"
Comments by Sandy Askland (ASU)
11:30 am - 1 pm
Environmental Aesthetics:
Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston), "Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Environmental Protection"
Jason Simus (North Texas), "Aesthetic Implications of the New Paradigm in Ecology"
Comments by Dan Sturgis (Colorado)