Archived Events (Winter Quarter 2007)
Ingra Schellenberg, “Depression as Moral Mood”
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Kansas
Friday, January 12, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm
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Alexander Friedman, “Intransitivity and Priority Setting”
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health
Friday, January 19, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm
Savery 249
Lisa Fuller, “Pogge on International Non-governmental Organizations: A Critique”
Postdoctral Fellow, University of Sheffield
Friday, February 2, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm
Savery 249
Nicole Hassoun, “World Poverty and Individual Freedom”
Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina
Friday, February 9, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm
Savery 249
Environmental Ethics and Policy Lecture Series
Populism, Paternalism, and the Future of US Environmentalism
Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm
258 Mary Gates Hall
Speaker: John Meyer, Politics, Humboldt State University
At the core of recent controversies surrounding the fate of the contemporary U.S. environmental movement is the question of environmentalism’s relation to the public or publics. Is environmentalism a “post-materialist” appeal for the transvaluation of public values or a “materialist” movement rooted in everyday livelihood and experience? What normative conclusions might we draw from polling showing consistently high percentages of the population who support environmental protection, yet consistently low levels of salience for this concern? Why does it appear that, in the U.S., people “like green, but they are less fond of greens” (as Christine Larson recently wrote in The Washington Monthly)? I argue that these questions—and the disagreements manifest in attempts to answer them—can be usefully understood as a reflection of the fraught relationship between paternalist and populist tendencies within environmental movement(s). By viewing them in this way, we might better position ourselves to identify both obstacles and opportunities for advancing environmental concerns.
Chimpanzee Dilemmas: Cognition, Capacity, and Conservation
Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm
258 Mary Gates Hall
Speaker: Lori Gruen, Philosophy, Wesleyan University (Connecticut)
We have complicated and contradictory relationships to our next of kin, the chimpanzee. Chimps simultaneously amuse us and embarrass us, they fascinate some and repulse others, prompt our curiosity and our denial, they evoke nostalgia and shame. However we encounter them, we often find ourselves wanting to look closer while feeling the need to look away. Even those who work closely with them–in captivity or in the wild–express complicated attitudes about them. Part of this complex relation involves our having to choose between equally difficult options in dealing with chimpanzees. This talk explores three areas in which our relationship to chimpanzees raises a dilemma—using them in cognitive studies, keeping them in captivity, and trying to conserve them and their habitats in the wild.
University of Washington
Values in Society
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