Environmental Philosophy and the Anthropocene Epoch

The International Society for Environmental Ethics 11th Annual Meeting

June 17-20, 2014, at the Highlands Center in Allenspark, Colorado, USA

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Tuesday, June 17

5:45 pm: Introduction & Welcome to Highlands

6:00 pm: Dinner

7:30 pm: Keynote Address by Ned Hettinger “Age of Man Environmentalism & Respect for an Independent Nature”

Wednesday, June 18

6:30-8:30 am: Breakfast

9:00‐12:00 pm

Morning Plenary Session

• Martin Drenthen, “The Return of the Wild in the Anthropocene”
• Chris Diehm, “Should Extinction Be Forever? Restitution, Restoration, and Reviving Extinct Species”
• Sarah Wright, “Invasive Species, Beta‐Diversity, and Environmental Virtues: Valuing Natural Patterns of Difference in our World”
• Kenneth Shockley, “Living Well Wherever You Are: Radical Hope and the Good Life in the Anthropocene”

12:00‐1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00‐5:00 pm: Group hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park

6:00‐7:00 pm: Dinner

7:30‐9:30 pm: Evening Concurrent Sessions

Session A

• Sergio Gallegos, “Environmental Virtue Ethics: A Unified Framework for the Defense of Animal Rights and the Protection of the Environment”
• Liz Goodnick, “Limits on Locavorism”
• Sharisse Kanet, “Minding the Gap: Why We Need an Intermediary Between Legal Personhood and Property”
• Beth Seacord, “What is a Protester to Do When Green is the New Red? Civil Disobedience for a New Age”

Session B

• John Nolt, “Biotic Welfare vs. Biodiversity: Non‐anthropocentric Conservation in the Anthropocene”
• Dan Shahar, “How to Argue Like an Anthropocentrist: Human‐Oriented Environmental Advocacy beyond the Language of Interests and Rights”
• Don Maier, “Taking Nature Seriously in the Anthropocene”

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Thursday, June 19

7:30‐8:30 am: Breakfast

9:00‐12:00 pm

Morning Plenary Session

• Katie McShane, “Individualist Biocentrism vs. Holism Revisited”
• Kevin Elliott, “Anthropocentric Indirect Arguments for Environmental Protection”
• Steve Vogel, “Responsibility in the Commons”
• Sean Gould, “Existentialism is an Environmentalism”

12:00‐1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00‐3:00 pm: Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

Session A

• Cheryl Abbate, “How to Help When It Hurts: The Problem with Assisting Victims of Injustice”
• Joey Tuminello, “Humaneness in Invasive Species Management”
• Kanako Takae, “Bridging Environmental Ethics and Bioethics for the Anthropocene Epoch”

Session B

• Matt Ferkany, “Arrogance and Humility in Thinking and Teaching About Climate Change”
• Paul Haught, “An Impossible Peace: The Aesthetic Disruptiveness of Climate Change”
• Ian Smith, “Investigating Two Prominent Claims in the Climate Change Ethics Literature”

3:30‐6:00 pm: Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

Session A

• David Morrow & Toby Svoboda, “Geoengineering and Non‐Ideal Theory”
• N.A.J. Taylor, “Rethinking Cosmopolitan Solidarity: Nuclear Harms From a Cosmic Point of View”
• Umberto Sconfienza, “Marketization of Nature and Environmental Blackmail: A Post‐colonialist perspective”
• Ian Werkheiser, “Community Epistemic Capacity for Environmental Justice”

Session B

• Jonathan Maskit, “The Aesthetics of Garbage”
• Andrea Gammon, “Landscape as a Text: Authorship of Landscape in the Anthropocene”
• Ben Dixon, “Value Pluralism and Consistency Maximization in the Writings of Aldo Leopold: Moving Beyond Callicott’s Interpretations and Confronting the Anthropocene Epoch”
• Mark Hathaway, “Permaculture: Living out an Anthropoharmonic Ethic”

6:00‐7:00 pm: Business Meeting

7:30 pm: Conference Dinner, Dunraven Inn, Estes Park

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Friday, June 20

7:30‐8:30 am: Breakfast

9:00‐12:00 pm

Morning Plenary Session

• Christopher Preston, “Atmospheric and Terrestrial Anthropocenes: Lessons from Difference”
• Jozef Keulartz, “An Ethics of Captivity for the Anthropocene”
• Megs Gendreau, “Relocation, Climigration, and Autonomy”
• Trevor Hedberg, “A Compensation‐Based Argument for Geoengineering Research”

Lunch: 12:00‐1:00 pm

Conference Ends

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