News
- Dr. Robert Frodeman wins NSF grant award for $150k over 3 years, "New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy."
- Dr. Carl Sachs' article "The Acknowledgment of Transcendence: Anti-Theodicy in Adorno and Levinas" to appear in "Philosophy and Social Criticism" vol. 35, 2009 or 2010, and his article "Nietzsche's 'Daybreak': Towards a Naturalized Theory of Autonomy" to appear in the fall edition of "Epoche."
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7/22
Dr. Gene Hargrove spoke on "The Preservation of Non-Biological Environments in the Solar System" at the NASA Lunar Science Conference at NASA Ames Research Center in California, 22 July 2008. -
7/6
UNT undergraduate Anthropology student Catalina Hungerford wins the best poster award at International Congress of Ethnobiology - Professor Irene Klaver, PHD Student Bidisha Kumar, and other UNT students and faculty to participate in Emerald Eagle Thailand Study Abroad trip featured in InHouse
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Dr. Dale Wilkerson was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to join an interdisciplinary faculty workshop examining Western critical and historical receptions of Homer from the ancient to the late modern periods. The NEH summer seminar, "Homer's Readers", will be held at the University of Michigan. - 6/19-6/22
Dr. Robert Figueroa, PhD students Jason Simus and Jonathan Parker, and Master's student Nathan Bell will participate in the "Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World"conference at the University of Oregon. - 6/4-6/7
Dr. Dale Wilkerson will deliver "On Finding and Losing Nietzsche: Positive and Negative Aspects of Heidegger's Encounter with Nietzsche after the 'Death of God''" at a meeting on the topic of "Heidegger and Religion" the Heidegger-Forschungsgruppe, Messkirch, Germany. - Dr. Geoffrey Dennis recently published "The Use of Water as a Medium for Altered States of Consciousness in Early Jewish Mysticism: A Cross Disciplinary Analysis" Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 19, Issue 1. 2008. ISSN 1053-4202.
- Dr. Robert Figueroa's co-authored chapter (w/Gordon Waitt: University of Wollongong), "Touring the Moral Terrain of Uluru: Pathways of Shame and Pride", appears in the recent publication of Making Sense of Place: Exploring Concepts and Expressions of Place Through Different Senses and Lenses, edited by Vanclay, Malpas, Higgins, and Blackshaw under The National Museum of Australia Press.
- MODEL PRAIRIE: MAN TURNS YARD OVER TO NATURE
The yard of Dr. Gene Hargrove was the focus of a recent Denton Record Chronicle article, "Model Prairie, Man Turns Yard Over to Nature".
- FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The attention Dr Ricardo Rozzi, Dr. Baird Callicott and colleagues bring to bear on the previously unrecognized biodiversity found in non-vascular flora in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve is used as an illustrative example of how cultural viewpoints influence not only what we study and value, but what we chose to prioritize and conserve. For more information go to www.frontiersinecology.org and Podcast: Seeing the Forest for the Liverworts - 4/28 SPECIAL SPEAKER SERIES: CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD. Christopher Newfield will present The Problem with Privatization: Better Futures for Public Higher Education at 3:30 pm in ENV 130.
- 4/25-4/26 Dr. Dale Wilkerson will deliver "Behold the Man: Heidegger's Historical Reflections in the 'Nietzsche's Word' Essay" to The 26th Heidegger Symposium, Saturday April 26 at the University of Dallas.
- Dr. Gene Hargrove has a revised version of his classic paper "The Historical Foundations of American Environmental Attitudes" (1979), in Allen Carlson and Sheila Lintott, eds., Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty (New York: Columbia Univeristy Press, 2008). The paper is the lead chapter in the book and is followed by essays by Emerson, Thoreau, Muir, Burroughs, and Leopold in Part I: "Historical Foundations".
- 4/19 Dr. Robert Figueroa will present a paper, "Relocating Environmental Heritage: Cultural Sustainability and Environmental Refugees" at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting.
- 4/11-4/12 North Texas Philosophical Association Conference
The 41st meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association will be held in the EESAT building on the UNT campus. The keynote speaker will be Robert Bernasconi, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. Dr. Bernasconi will present The Policing of Race Mixing and the Birth of Biopower on Saturday, April 12th at 1:00 pm in ENV 130. Over sixty papers will be presented during the two day conference, eleven of these by UNT participants. - 4/11 Special Speaker Series: Robert Bernasconi
Robert Bernasconi will present Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights at 5:00 pm in ENV 110. - 3/28
Religion and Ecology Workshop
In this workshop, speakers and participants will discuss the origin and development of this discipline, the trajectory of present research in the field, and the presently emerging challenges. - 3/18-3/23 Master's student Mark Mysak presents "Evolving Ecological Ethics: Freedom in Participatory Evolution at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Pasadena, California.
- 3/14-3/15 Post-Bacclaureate student Joel Alexander presents "An Activist Guide to Environmental Justice as Inherent in Common Law: Belize Becomes a World Model" at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center's 7th Annual Multi-Disciplinary Conference.
- 3/14-Common Grounds, Common Waters: Toward a Water Ethic. The symposium will be held at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.
Dr. Irene Klaver, Philosophy of Water Project Director, is one of the co-organizers of this symposium along with Santa Clara University Journal of International Law, Santa Clara University Center for Global Law and Policy, and Texas Tech Univeristy School of Law. - Dr. Sean Hecht will present, The Role of State and Local Governments in Addressing Climate Change.
- 2/22 Robert Figueroa and a panel of UNT graduate students will present Problems in the Philosophy of Policy: Emerging Issues in Environmental Ethics at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Seventeenth Annual Meeting in San Antonio.
- 2/22-2/24 Martin Yaffe will be participating in an H.B. Earhart Fellows Conference on "Liberty and Ethical Inquiry," hosted by the Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor, MI, in Savannah, GA.
- Martin Yaffe's "Interpretación de la Ética de Spinoza como un 'sistema': las Horas matinales de Moses Mendelssohn appears in the current Revista de Estudios Culturales (Valencia, España; Winter 2007-2008): 38-43.
- Master's Student, Ashley Hardcastle's book review of "Little Big Minds: Sharing Philosophy with Kids", by Marietta McCarty is to be published in "Teaching Philosophy", (March 2008, Vol. 31:1): pp.109-111.
- 1/10 PHD Student Jason Simus to give presentation, "Responding to Students' Writing" at the Orientation for Incoming TAs/TFs, 1pm in Curry Hall.
- PhD student Chuck Siegel contributed to the "Encyclopedia of Aviculture" published December 2007.
- Robert Frodeman receives 150k grant from NASA for research on the ethics of climate change.
- 12/17 Martin Yaffe to deliver paper at the Association for Jewish Studies annual conference in Toronto, Canada
- 12/13 Ricardo Rozzi to give lecture "Biodiversity assessment and conservation at the southern end of the Americas" at 1:00 at EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas
- 12/13 Prof. Laura Hartman to give lecture "A Christian Ethics of Consumption" at 4:00 in ENV 125
- 12/11 Prof. Sarah Fredericks to give lecture "Environmental Ethics Across Worldviews: An Analysis of Sustainable Energy Development Indexes" at 4:00 in ENV 125
- 12/10 Dr. René von Schomberg to give lecture "European Union Science and Technology Policy: Addressing Societal and Ethical Aspects" at 4:00 in ENV 125
- 12/5 Prof. Sam Snyder to give lecture "New Watersheds of Religion and Nature: Rethinking Religion through Practice and Values" at 4:00pm in ENV 125
- 12/3 Prof. Evan Berry to give lecture "Spiritual Hybrids: Nature, Religion, and Modernization in Theoretical Perspective" at 4:00pm in ENV 125
- Department awarded 22.5k from UNT's Hispanic Global Initiative in support of its field station in Chile
- Ricardo Rozzi and UNT Philosophy-Chile program discussed in Science Daily article, "Biodiversity Of Southernmost Forests And Tundra Ecosystems"
- 11/5 Dr. Evan Selinger to give lecture "Digital Development and the Technological Configuration of Culture" at 4:00 in ENV 115
- PHD Student Jason Simus publishes "A Response to Emily Brady's 'Aesthetic Regard for Nature in Environmental and Land Art'" in Ethics, Place, and Environment, Vol. 10, No. 3, Oct 2007 and "Aesthetic implications of the new paradigm in ecology," Journal of Aesthetic Education," Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 2008
- Britt Holbrook and Robert Frodeman have published an article on "Answering NSF's Question: What Are the Broader Impacts of the Proposed Activity?" in AAAS's Professional Ethics Report.
- Tenure track position (Assistant Professor)to begin fall of 2008. AOS: in either A) Religion and Nature / Religion and Ecology or B) Applied Philosophy
- 9/4 Dr. Yuriko Saito to give lecture on The Moral Dimension of Japanese Garden Aesthetics at 3:30 in ENV 115
- Broader Impacts workshop featured on Nature's Peer-to-Peer blog.
- UNT Philosophy workshop on Science's "Broader Impacts" Golden, CO 8/5 - 8/7
- Dr. Robert Figueroa accepts faculty position in the department for Fall 2007
- 4/13 - 4/14 40th Anniversary Meeting of NTPA, EESAT Building, John Caputo to lecture
- Martin Yaffe's co-edited volume of critical essays "Emil L. Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew" accepted for publication by Brill Academic Publishers, expected to appear in 2008
- 4/10 Robert Frodeman to give lecture at Denver Museum of Nature and Science, "Environmental Ethics of Exploring and Living in Space"
- 3/1 Robert Frodeman gives talk at University of South Florida, "Double Takes: Contrarian Views on NSF's Criterion 2"
- 4/11-4/13 Department/CEP hosting Space Science, Environmental Ethics, and Policy conference at NASA Ames
- Faculty position open in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS
- Callicott and Frodeman to co-edit Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
- The Nietzsche Family Circus - A random Family Circus cartoon paired with a random Nietzsche quote. Hours of entertainment!
- NT Daily features upcoming Study Abroad course in Chile: Tracing Darwin's Path
- Dr. John Zammito to speak Monday 12/4 at 4:00 in ENV 115
- MA student Erin Daly publishes article in Nature and Culture
- Dr. Robert Frodeman to run workshop on interdisciplinarity, Bielefeld, Germany 11/13
- Dr. Neal Lane to speak Monday 11/6 at 7:00 at the Lyceum in the University Union
- Dr. Robert Frodeman co-authors White Paper on Ethics of Climate Change
- Dr. Irene Klaver to give several presentations in October and November
- Dr. Ricardo Rozzi among 25 South Americans selected to participate in workshop 10/8-12 in Bariloche (southern Argentina)
- 10/25 7:30 Dr. Robert Frodeman to present "The Role of the Humanities in Resolving Environmental Crises" at the Dallas Institute
- 10/25-10/28 PhD student Jason Simus to present at American Society for Aesthetics meeting
- Dr. Dale Wilkerson's book Nietzsche and the Greeks (Continuum Press, 2006) now available
- Dr. Robert Frodeman to present "Contradictions in the Concept of Expertise" at "Governing the Knowledge Society" conference in Hamburg, Germany
- Dr. George James presented paper at "World's Religions after September 11" conference in Montreal 9/11-9/15
- UTA Philosophy Lecture Series to host Kyle Stanford 10/6 at 3:30
- Dr. George James presented paper at "World's Religions after September 11" conference in Montreal 9/11-9/15
- UTA Philosophy Lecture Series to host Kyle Stanford 10/6 at 3:30
- Dr. John McCumber to speak Thursday 9/21 at 4:00 in ENV 110
- 32nd Annual Richard R. Baker Philosophy Colloquium October 12-14 at University of Dayton
- 9/18 Dr. Ricardo Rozzi to give presentation at the Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
- Dr. Francisco Lozano to speak Friday 9/8 at 3:30 in ENV 110
- Dr. Baird Callicott named Regents Professor
- Dr. Erik Fisher to speak Thursday 9/7 at 4:30 in ENV 110
- Dr. Robert Frodeman plenary speaker at The Second International Conference
on Environmental Science and Technology in Houston, TX, 8/19 - Two Physician Fellows Join Ethics Department at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital for Rotation in Ethics of Palliative Medicine
- Dr. Robert Frodeman to present "Science, Policy, and Philosophy at Cape Horn," 91st annual Ecological Society meeting, Memphis, TN, 8/9
- MA student Christina Nelson to begin position teaching Medical Ethics to Ob/Gyn medical students at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.
- Dr. Irene Klaver lectures about various aspects of water this summer in Spain, The Netherlands, and California
- Dr. Gene Hargrove to give several lectures in Korea and China this summer
- 6/30 Dr. Dale Wilkerson led a post-doctoral seminar on the "Esoteric Political Philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger" at Cornell University
- Dr. Ricardo Rozzi publishes article on biocultural conservation in Ecology and Society
- Dr. David Kaplan to present at Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics conference in Oslo, Norway, 6/22
- Aberdeen and Macaulay Institute offer international PhD master class on Environmental and Landscape Change
- Dr. Joe Barnhart interviewed by FW Star Telegram and KNTU on "Apocalyptic Literature"
- Dr. Juan Armesto to speak Monday 5/15 at 12:00 in ENV 225A
- Dr. Martin Yaffe to read a paper to the Academy for Jewish Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association in Washington, DC 12/27-30
- Dr. Dale Wilkerson to give talk 5/27 at Heidegger-Forschungsgruppe meeting
- Dr. Ricardo Rozzi gives talk at University of Missouri
- Environmental Ethics Institute at University of Montana
- PhD student Jason Simus invited to annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics
- Dr. George James gives talk on Sunderlal Bahuguna at University of Iowa
- Jorge Rodriguez to speak Thurs 4/27 at 3:30 in ENV 110
- Spain Herald Article: "Socialists: Give apes human rights"
- "Climate and Philosophy" conference at University of South Florida in Tampa 9/15-16
- Dr. Cindy Willett to speak Mon 4/24 at 4:00 in ENV 110
- '99 UNT Phil MA graduate to be Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Villanova University
- UNT Phil student going to Johns Hopkins
- Graduate students Pat Sewell and Rodney Love to speak at The Cupboard Natural Foods on Earth Day, 4/22
- Dale Wilkerson receives grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
- Dr. Jayanta Bandyopadhyay to speak Thurs 4/20 at 3:30 in ENV 110
- UNT to close at 1:00pm 4/14 except for essential office personnel
- Article by Dr. Britt Holbrook named in top 25 in Technology in Society
- New Chile course to be promoted at Study Abroad Fair, Wednesday, 4/12
- Dr. Byron Newberry to speak Thurs 4/13 at 3:30 in ENV 110
- Dr. Dale Wilkerson named Secretary of the North Texas Philosophical Association
- 4/8 North Texas Philosophical Association Spring Conference in the EESAT Building 8:30am to 6pm
- Dr. Ann Kirschner to speak Thurs 4/6 at 7:00 in ENV 125
- 4/13 Dr. Joe Barnhart to moderate at National Popular Culture Conference in Atlanta
- Dr. Steven Moore to speak Friday 3/31 at 3:00 in ENV 125
- Geoff Dennis' book -The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism- to be published
- 3/29 Irene Klaver to present at American Society of Environmental History conference
- 3/30 ETHICS BOWL 2:30 at the Union One O'Clock Lounge
- Article by Dr. Martin Yaffe to be published in NASS Monographs
- Article on the Chile Field Station featured in NT Daily
- 3/31 MA student Christina Nelson to present paper, "Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology" at the 9th Annual Philosophy Symposium at Texas State University in San Marcos
- 3/2 International Environmental Ethics Roundtable Discussion at 3:00 in EESAT 320A
- Visiting guest speaker Dr. A. Carl Leopold mentioned in NT Daily article
- PhD student Jason Simus chosen to participate in the American Society for Aesthetics conference
- UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth - Ethics Guest Lecture Series
- Dr. Joe Barnhart published in Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament and to present two papers in March
- 3/5 Dr. Martin Yaffe to speak at American Academy of Religion Southwest Region, Irving, TX
- Dr. Britt Holbrook publishes "Assessing the Science-Society Relation: The Case of the US National Science Foundation's Second Merit Review Criterion," in Technology in Society 27 (2005) p.p. 437-451.
- Dr. Carl Leopold to speak Thursday 2/16 and Friday 2/17
- 2/10 & 2/13 Environmental Science Spring Seminar Series presents Dr. Duane Huggett and Dr. Jonathan Maul
- Dr. Gene Hargrove featured in article on ecoterrorism in UNT's InHouse publication
- Call for papers, commentators, and session chairs for the Third Annual Joint Meeting on Environmental Philosophy
ENV 120, 4:00 pm
