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Conference
Program
Tuesday, May
31st
7-9 pm:
Environmental Virtue Ethics
Phil Cafaro (Colorado State University)
Holmes Rolston III (Colorado State
University)
Ronald Sandler (Northeastern University)
Wednesday,
June 1st
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
Elisa Aaltola (Turku, Finland), "Personhood
and Animals: Three Approaches"
Comments by Marc Bekoff (Biology, Colorado)
11:30-1
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
Petra Andersson ( Goteborg, Sweden), "Is
Genetic Engineering Unnatural?"
Comments by Adam Briggle (Colorado)
11:30-1
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
Ben Hale (NYU), "Crossing the Property
Line"
Comments by Sandy Askland (ASU)
11:30-1
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)
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