ISEE Sessions at the American Philosophical Association

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 27-30, 2007.
BALTIMORE MARRIOTT WATERFRONT HOTEL

FRIDAY MORNING, December 28, 2007
GROUP SESSION II - 9:00-11:00 A.M.
GII-4. International Society for Environmental Ethics
9:00-11:00 a.m., Heron (Fourth Floor)
Author Meets Critics: Warwick Fox, A Theory of General Ethics
Chair: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)
Critics: James Spence (Adrian College)
Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham-United Kingdom)
Author: Warwick Fox (University of Central Lancashire-United Kingdom)

FRIDAY EVENING, December 28, 2007
GROUP SESSION V - 6:00-8:00 P.M.
GV-5. International Society for Environmental Ethics
6:00-8:00 p.m., Heron (Fourth Floor)
Chair: Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh-United Kingdom)
Speakers: Chris Stevens (University of Maryland)
"Aesthetic Preservationism: Environmental Preservation and Nature's Aesthetic Value"
Avram Hiller (Wake Forest University)
"What is Instrumental Value?"
Darren Domsky (Texas A&M University)
"The Impossible Situation of Environmental Ethics"
Phil Cafaro (Colorado State University)
"The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States"

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 28, 2006.

GROUP SESSION II - 9:00-11:00 A.M.
Chair: Wendy Donner (Carleton University)
Keith Bustos (University of Tennessee) "Kantian Corporate Environmental Responsibility"
Craig Delancey (State University of New York-Oswego) "The Concept of Wilderness"
Sarah Kenehan (University of Tennessee) "Empirical Adequacy, Inductive Risk, and Choosing to act on Model-Generated Climate Predictions"
Rob Loftis (St. Lawrence University) "Varieties of Aesthetic Disinterestedness, East and West."

GROUP SESSION III - 11:15 A.M.-1:15 P.M.
Chair: James Sheppard (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Topic: Philosophical Responses to Environmental Atrocity
Victoria Davion (University of Georgia) "Ecofeminist Responses to Unrecognized Evils"
Roger S. Gottlieb (Worchester Polytechnic University) "The Holocaust and Environmental Atrocity"
Bill Lawson (University of Memphis) "Environmental Racism as a Paradigm of Atrocity"
Kathryn Norlock (St. Mary's College of Maryland) "The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity"

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Pacific Division Meeting, in San Francisco 2003.

Session 1: Environmental Virtue Ethics
Louke van Wensveen (Loyola Marymount University)"Virtues and the Flux of Nature"
Commentators: Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Colorado College); Jennifer Everett (University of Alaska)
Ronald Sandler (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) "The Normativity of Environmental Virtue"
Commentator: Ernest Partridge (University of California, Riverside)
Chair: Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)

Session 2: Epistemological Issues in Environmental Ethics�
Steven Vogel (Denison University), "The Silence of Nature."
Irene Klaver (University of North Texas), "Language at Large: Nature and Translation"
Commentators: Phil Cafaro (Colorado State University) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan College, Conn.)
Chair: Christopher Preston (University of South Carolina)

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Central Division Meeting, in Cleveland 2003.

Session: Author Meets Critics
Author: Donald Brown (Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdiscilinary Environmental Policy), American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States' Response to Global Warming.
Critics: Kristin Schrader-Frechette (University of Notre Dame); Sharon Anderson-Gold (Rensselaer Polytechnic University)
Chair: James Liszka (University of Alaska, Anchorage)�

2002

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Pacific Division Meeting, in Seattle 2002.

Session I. Author Meets Critics: Nicholas Agar, Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature.
Commentators: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University), Kevin DeLaplante, (Iowa State University), James Sterba, (University of Notre Dame), Christopher Preston (University of South Carolina).
Respondent: Nicholas Agar (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).
Session Chair: Daniel Holbrook (Washington State University).

Session II. Author Meets Critics: David Strohmaier,The Seasons of Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West.
Commentators: Peter List (Oregon State University), Peter Morrison (Pacific Biodiversity Institute), Deborah Slicer (University of Montana), Daniel Holbrook (Washington State University).
Respondent: David Strohmaier (USDA Forest Service).
Session Chair: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University).

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Central Division Meeting, in Chicago 2002.

Session I. Author Meets Critics:
Karen Warren, Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What It Is and Why It Matters.
Commentators: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago), Louke Van Wensveen (Loyola/Marymount University), Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada).
Respondent: Karen Warren (Macalester College).
Session Chair: Peter Miller (University of Winnipeg).

Session II. The Earth Charter and Environmental Ethics. "Valuing Integrity: the Earth Charter and Environmental Ethics,"
Peter Miller, (University of Winnipeg). "Global Justice,Ecofeminism and the Earth Charter,"
Victoria Davion (University of Georgia). "Nurturing The Earth as a Moral Imperative,"
Ruth Lucier (Bennett College, North Carolina).
Session Chair: Laura Westra (Osgood Hall Law School).

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Eastern Division meeting, in Philadelphia , December 2002.

Session I: Literature and Environmental Ethics.
Speakers: Dylan Barth (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "On (Not) Crossing the Determinable Line: Death in Contemporary Environmental Protest Literature." Kim Smith (Political Science, Carleton College), "Possessing the Land: Slave Narratives and the Agrarian Problematic." Piers H. G. Stephens (Liverpool, U.K.), "The Golden Country: Nature and Liberty in the Dystopias of George Orwell and Ray Bradbury."
Respondent: Marcia Eaton (Minnesota).
Chair: Will Aiken (Chatham College

Session II: Author Meets Critic: Allen Carlson's 'Aesthetics and the Environment'
Speakers: Emily Brady (Lancaster), Cheryl Foster (Rhode Island). Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston).
Respondent: Allen Carlson (Alberta).
Chair: Benjamin Hale (SUNY-Stony Brook).

2001

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, 28 March - 1 April 2001.

Session I. "Population and the Environment in the United States." Chair: Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University).
Virginia Abernethy (Vanderbilt University), "The Harms of Population Growth and the Sources of Population Growth in the United States."
Thomas Young (Mansfield University), "Overconsumption and Procreation: Are They Morally Equivalent?"
Ben Zuckerman (UCLA), "U.S. Population Growth and the Environment: Is Overimmigration Unethical?"
Commentators: Steven Weiss (Georgia Southern University), Roger Paden (George Mason University), Mark Woods (University of San Diego).

Session II. "Population, Wilderness and the World Environment."Chair: Thomas Young.
Steven Weiss, "Population, Environmental Degradation, and Social Injustice in India."
Warren Hern (University of Colorado), "Are Human Beings a Cancer on the Biosphere?"
Mark Woods and Steven Kramer (Southwest State University), "Naturalness, Wildness, and Freedom: An Argument for the Foundational Values of American Environmentalism."
Commentators: Roger Paden, Virginia Abernethy and Philip Cafaro.

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Central Division Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Session I. "Environmental Ethics, Emergent Risks, and the Principle of Integrity": Authors meet Critics.
Richard P. Hiskes (University of Connecticut), author of Democracy, Risk and Community.
Laura Westra (York University), author of Living in Integrity.
Commentators: Hiskes, Westra, and Willian Vitek,(Clarkson University).
Chair: James Sterba (University of Notre Dame).

Session II. "The Environment and World Hunger."
Dank Banik (University of Oslo), "Combating Hunger in Developing Countries."
Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen), "Poverty and the Environment." Rosalind Hursthouse (Open University, UK),"Virtue Ethics and the Environment."
Commentator: John Zavodny (Unity College).
Chair: Hugh LaFollette.

ISEE Group Sessions at the APA Eastern Division meeting, in Atlanta , December 2001.

Session I. Garret Hardin in Perspective.
Stephen M. Gardiner (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), "The Real Tragedy of the Commons: Why Hardin's Conclusions are More Plausible than His Arguments."
Martino Traxler (Agnes Scott College), "A Travesty of the Commons: Argumentum ad Hardinem.
Commentator: Margaret Holmgren (Iowa State University).
Session Chair: Michael Nelson (University of Wisconsin,Stevens Point).

Session II. Author Meets Critics: In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics, by Gary Varner.
Commentators: Robert Elliot (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia), "Priorities Among Interests: An Assessment."
Elinor J. Mason (University of Colorado, Boulder) "Rights and Interests."
Respondent: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University).
Session Chair: Piers Stephens (University of Liverpool,UK).

2000

ISEE Session at the APA Western Division Meeting, Albuquerque, 5-8 April 2000.

"Environmental Virtue Ethics." Chair: Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University).
Geoffrey Frasz (Community College of Southern Nevada)."What is Environmental Virtue Ethics that We Should be Mindful Of It?"
Philip Cafaro (Colorado State University). "Towards an Environmental Virtue Ethics."
Comments: Thomas Hill, Jr. (University of North Carolina).
Lisa Gerber (Southwest State University). "The Art of Intimacy."
John O'Neill (University of Lancaster). "Environmental Virtue and Public Policy."
Comments: James Sterba (Notre Dame University).

ISEE Sessions at the APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, 20-23 April 2000.

Session I. "Recent Work in Environmental Ethics." Chair: Laura Westra (Sarah Lawrence).
Steven Weiss (Georgia Southern University). "People,Wildlife,and Wilderness in India: Towards a Biocentric Synthesis?"
Philip Cafaro (Colorado State). "Rachel Carson on Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics."
Mark Michael (Austin Peay State University) "What's So Wrong about Interfering with Nature?"

Session II. "Environmental Racism." Chair: Bill Lawson (Michigan Eastern University).
Robert Melchior Figueroa (Colgate University). "Illuminating Environmental Identity: Extending the Merits of the Environmental Racism Charge."
Tommy Shelby (Ohio State). "Racism, Class, Exploitation, and Environmental Hazards."
John Callawaert (University of Michigan). "Rawls' Theory of Justice and Environmental Justice."
Comments: Laura Westra (Sarah Lawrence College).

ISEE Sessions at the APA Eastern Division Meeting, 27-30 December 2000, New York.

Session I "Values in Nature." Speaker: Dale Jamieson (Carleton College).
Commentators: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan College, CT), Sandra Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh), David Schmidtz (University of Arizona).
Chair: James Sheppard (SUNY Binghamton).

Session II "Author Meets Critics." Speaker: Avner de Shalit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), author of The Environment: Between Theory and Practice.
Commentators: Chris Cuomo (University of Cincinnati), Beth Dixon (SUNY Plattsburgh), Jack Weir (Morehead State University).
Chair: Dale Jamieson (Carleton College).

1999

ISEE Sessions at the American Philosophical Association: Pacific Division, 31 March - 3 April 1999, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California USA.

First Session. Chair, Ernest Partridge.
Philip Cafaro (Southwest State University, MN), "For a Grounded Conception of Wilderness, and More Wilderness on the Ground."
Response by Mark Woods (University of San Diego).
Jason Kawall (Brown University), "Is (Merely) Stalking Sentient Animals Morally Wrong?"
Response by William McKinney (Southeast Missouri State University).

Second Session. Chair, Ernest Partridge.
Mark A. Michael (Austin Peay State University), "Modifying Nature vs. Interfering with Nature: A Distinction Without a Difference?"
Response by Don Mayer (Oakland University).

ISEE Sessions at the American Philosophical Association: Central Division. New Orleans, Louisiana USA, 5-8 May 1999.

First Session. Topic: "The Land Ethic Revisited."
Chair and Commentator, Peter List (Oregon State University).
Speakers: Peter Wenz (University of Illinois at Springfield), "Nature's Prescription: Reductionism and the Is/Ought Dichotomy."
Kristin Shrader-Frechette (University of Nortre Dame),"The Land Ethic: Policy Assets and Epistemological Liabilities."
Laura Westra (University of Windsor), "Aldo Leopold and the Ethics of Integrity."
Burcu Gurkan (University of Windsor), "The Land Ethic:Hoslitic or Not?"

Second Session. Topic: "Biotechnology and Environmental Ethics-The Interface."
Chair and Commentator: M. C. Tallacchini (University ofFirenze, Italy).
Speakers: Paul Thompson (Purdue University), "The Environmental Ethics Case for Crop Biotechnology."
Alan Holland (University of Lancaster, UK), "In the Beginning Was the Word? A Critique of Information Metaphors in Genetics."
Gary Comstock (Iowa State University), "Why We Should Produce Transgenic Animals From an Animal Rights Perspective."
Laura Westra (University of Windsor), "Biotechnology, Transgenics and MicroIntegrity."

1998

Pacific Division, Bonaventure Hotel,Los Angeles, CA, March 25-28, 1998

Friday, March 27, 7:00 PM. Chair: Ernest Partridge (University of California, Riverside).
Speaker: William J. McKinnery (Southwest Missouri State University), "The Science Wars Meets Environmental Philosophy."
Commentator: James Heffernan (University of the Pacific).
Speaker: Mark Woods (University of San Diego), "Upsetting he Balance of Nature."
Commentator: Ernest Partridge (University of California, Riverside).
Speaker: Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (University of California, Berkeley),"An Introduction to Places." Commentator: Laura Westra (University of Windsor).

Central Division, Palmer House, Chicago,IL,May 6-9, 1998

Session One. Topic: Recent Works in Environmental Ethics. Chair:Laura Westra University of Windsor (Canada). Speakers:Michael Mark, Austin Peay State University (TN), "Environmentalism with a Liberal Face"; Philip Cafaro, Southwest State University (MN), "Thoreau on Science and System"; Bruce Morito,
University of Guelph (Canada), "Examining Ecosystem Integrity as a Primary Mode of Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature"; Laura Westra, University of Windsor (Canada), "The Ethics of Integrity: A Response to Bruce Morito."

Session Two. Topic: Author Meets Critics--Eric Katz's Nature as Subject: Human Obligations and Natural Community. Chair: Andrew Light, University of Montana. Speakers: Ned Hettinger, College of Charleston, Wayne Ouderkirk, Empire State College (SUNY).
Respondent:Eric Katz, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

ISEE Sessions at the American Philosophical Association: Eastern Division, 27-30 December 1998, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, USA.

First Session (29 Dec., 9-11:00 AM). Chair: Holmes Rolston, III (Colorado State University).
Victoria Davion (University of Georgia), "Ecofeminism,Anthropocentrism, and Scientific Research."
Lori Gruen (Stanford University), "Ecofeminism: Present and Future."
Commentator: Ronnie Hawkins (University of Central Florida).

Second Session (29 Dec., 7-10:00 PM). Topic: "Realism in Environmental Ethics." Chair: Laura Westra (University of Windsor).
Speaker: Holmes Rolston, III (Colorado State University).
Commentators: Jack Weir (Morehead State University, KY), Bryan Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Also at the APA:ED. North American Society for Social Philosophy.(Monday,Dec. 28, 9-11.00 AM).

Session Topic: "Value in Nature." Speaker: Holmes Rolston, III, with commentary by Ned Hettinger. Chair William Throop. (Monday, Dec. 28, 7:30-10:30 PM).

Session Topic: "Should Environmental Ethicists and Ecofeminists be Pro-Life on Abortion?"
Speaker: Laura Westra (University of Windsor), with commentary by Melissa Clarke (Temple University) and Victoria Davison(University of Georgia). Chair: Laura Purdue (University of Toronto).

Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (Mon. 11:15 AM-1:15 PM).

Chair: Judy Boss (Brown University).
Mylan Engel, Jr. (Northern Illinois University), "Why YOU Are Committed to the Immorality of Eating Animals."
Comment: Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta).
Lee Fennell (University of Virginia, Law), "Killing with Kindness: An Inquiry into the Routinized Destruction of Companion Animals."
Comment: Grace Clement (Salisbury State University).

Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals (Mon. 5:15-7:15 PM).

Chair: Jane Duran (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Brian Luke (University of Dayton), "The Politics of Animal Sacrifice: Patriarchy and Dominionism."
Comment: Ronnie Hawkins (University of Central Florida).
Laura Wisteria (University of Windsor), "The Abortion Issue: A Non-anthropocentric Perspective."
Comment: Harlan Miller (Virginia Tech).

1997

APA: Central Division Program, 23-26 April 1997, Pittsburg, PA

Session One: Panel on "Nature vs. Development?"Organized by Will Aiken; chaired by Laura Westra.
Speakers: Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University; David Crocker, University of Maryland; Will Aiken, Chatham College. Followed by brief business meeting.

Session Two: "Recent Work in Environmental Ethics."Chaired by Laura Westra.
Speakers: Sheri Collins-Shobanian, Arizona State University West, "A Proposal for Environmental Consumer Labelling: From Nutrition Facts and Fat Grams to Environmental Facts and Pesticide PPMs"; William McKinney, Southeast Missouri State University, "On the Seemingly Paradoxical Nature of the Phrase`American Environmental Regulations'"; Andrew J. Kerr, Divinity School, University of Chicago, "The Necessity of Metaphysics: Environmental Ethics and the Naturalistic Fallacy," Teresa Kwiatkowska, University of Autonoma, Mexico City, "Beyond Uncertainty: Toward the Ethics of Belonging."

Eastern Division, Mariott Hotel, Philadelphia,PA,December 27-30, 1997

Session One. Topic: Current Issues in Environmental Ethics. Chair: Andrew Light (University of Montana). Speaker: Bill Throop (Green Mountain College), "On the Elimination of Exotic Species,"
Commentator: Gary Varner (Texas A&M University).
Speaker: Robinson Lilienthal (New Jersey Institute of Technology),"The Unabomber Case: Ecoterrorism and Environmental Ethics,"
Commentator: Edwin Hettinger (College of Charleston).

Session Two. Topic: Ecology and Environmental Philosophy. Chair: Laura Westra (University of Windsor). Speaker: Mark Sagoff (University of Maryland at College Park), "Impediments to a Theoretical Ecology," Commentators: Greg Cooper (Duke University), Richard Burian (Virginia Polytechnic and State
University).

Session Three. Co-sponsored by ISEE and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP). Topic: Pragmatism and Environmental Philosophy. Chair: Jennifer Welchman (University of Maryland at Baltimore).
Speakers: Bryan G. Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology), "Pragmatism, Adaptive Management, and Sustainability"; Robert L. Hood (Bowling Green State University), "Why There Isn't Unity among Environmentalists"; Eric Katz (New Jersey Institute of Technology), "A Pragmatic Reconsideration of Anthropocentrism."

1996

ISLE Sessions ALA: Eastern Division Program, December 27-30, 1996, Atlanta GA

Session One: Author Meets Critics--Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Method in Ecology. Chair, J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas;
Speakers, Bryan Norton (Georgia Tech), Eric Katz(NJ Institute of Technology), Greg Cooper (Duke), Frank Golley (Georgia)

Session Two: Author Meets Critics--Michael Zimmerman, Contesting Earth's Future.
Chair, Ernest Partridge (Northland College);
Speakers, Jonathan Maskit (Katholicke University of Luvven), Steven Vogel (Denison), Victoria Davion (Georgia), Harold Glasser (NJ Institute of Technology).

Session Three: Author Meets Critics--David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous. Chair, Eric Katz or Jack Weir; Speakers, Andrew Light (Montana), Irene Klaver (Montana State), Deane Curtin (Gustavus Adolphus).

Session of the North American Society for Social Philosophy. Chair, James Sterba; Speakers: Laura Westra (Windsor), "Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy," and Eugene Hargrove (North Texas), "Environmentalism and Democracy."