ISEE 2014 Conference Program 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 Download Entire Schedule (with commentators & session chairs) 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” (return to top) 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 (return to top) 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 (return to top) PrintEmailFacebookTwitterMoreTumblrRedditLinkedInPinterestPocket