Sixth Annual Joint Environmental Philosophy Meeting
Allenspark, Colorado
June 16-19, 2009


Tuesday, June 16th

7-9pm

Keynote Speaker: Emily Brady, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, President- Elect ISEE.
"Steps towards an Environmental Sublime"
Chair, Robert Frodeman

Wednesday, June 17th

9-10:30am: Landscape and land ethic

1. Martin Drenthen, "The legible landscape and ethics of place"
Commentator: Nathan Kowalsky
2. Jennifer Welchman, "Hume, Callicott, and the Land Ethic: Prospects and Problems"
Commentator: Ty Raterman

10:45am-1:00pm: Ecology, biodiversity and conservation

1. Jason Simus, "Metaphors and Metaphysics in Ecology"
Commentator: Richard Kover
2. Don Maier, "What's So Good about Biodiversity? A Survey of Bad Answers"(Also available in Word format)
Commentator: Baylor Johnson
3. Hassoun and Frank, "Are debt-for-nature swaps morally permissible?"
Commentator: Jennifer Welchman

Wednesday afternoon free: some walks will be organized

5-6pm ISEE Annual Business Meeting

6:30-8:30pm: Panel Session: “The proper role of economic reasoning in environmental decision-making” Session on David Schmidtz' new book, Person, Polis, Planet: Essays in Applied Philosophy.
Commentators: Phil Cafaro (See the following three articles Cafaro will be commenting upon: Schmidtz 1997, Schmidtz 2001, Schmidtz 2003), Katie McShane, and Holmes Rolston.
Respondent: David Schmidtz.

8:30-10pm: Keynote Speaker: Patty Limerick, Center of the American West, University of Colorado
"Watered-Down Clarity: What I Gained and Lost When I Gave Up on Purity and Elevated Principle, with Case Studies Drawn from the Denver Water Board, the Department of the Interior, and the Troubles of Filmmakers Doing Documentaries on the Environmental Movement"

Thursday, June 18th

9-10:30am: The Environment and the Aesthetic

1. Andrew Ross, "The Emotional Appreciation of Nature: In Defense of the Arousal Model"
Commentator: Erin Moore
2. Christopher Cohoon, "Silent Earth: Levinasian Environmental Ethics and the Kantian Sublime"
Commentator: Bob Frodeman

10:45am-1pm: Relating to the Non-Human

1. Tama Weisman, "Restorative Environmental Justice and the Promise of Ubuntu"
Commentator: Katie McShane
2. Josef Keulartz, "Animal Flourishing in an Era of Global Change"
Commentator: Clare Palmer
3. Roger Gottlieb, "Can we Talk?"
Commentator: Myingsik Kim

Thursday Afternoon and Evening Free

Friday, June 19th

9am-12:45pm: Values, Political Philosophy and the Future (Since some people have to leave for afternoon flights, we will continue with papers through coffee)

1. Barbara Muraca, "The Challenge of Relational Values"
Commentator: Geoffrey Frasz
2. Federico Marulanda, "Neo-Republicanism, Ecologism and the Goals of the State"
Commentator: Piers Stephens
3. Allen Habib, "Finite Resources and Future Generations"
Commentator: Ian Smith
4. Alan Carter, "Indirect, multi-dimensional consequentialism"
Commentator: Darren Domsky
5. Neil Manson, "Necessary Anthropocentrism"
Commentator: Paul B. Thompson


LUNCH & CONFERENCE CLOSE