Thomas Berry, Environmentalist, Priest, Eco-Theologian, Dies at 94

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Links for the Holiday

As many people prepare to eat holiday feasts and go shopping on Black Friday, over at the Utah State philosophy blog, Harrision Kleiner talks about Peter Singer’s argument on moral duties for helping the poor. And while Americans react to seeing Sarah Palin give an interview as a turkey is slaughtered behind her, Kleiner calls [...]

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CFP: Ethics and the Environment

CALL FOR PAPERS
Ethics & the Environment is considering papers for a special issue in honor of Val Plumwood. We welcome submissions on Plumwood’s philosophy, ecofeminism, indigenous environmental ethics, ecological perspectives on rationality, and other relevant topics.

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Bernard Williams Lecture in Nine Parts

Below are youtube links to a lecture Williams gave in 2002 at Princeton entitled “Unavoidable Human Prejudice.” In it, Williams discusses speciesism, Singer’s utilitarianism and the unavoidable human prejudice.

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Winona LaDuke on Climate Change and Sustainability

Here’s a lecture LaDuke gave last year (Sept, 2007) at UCF on climate change, sustainability and some of the things native communities are doing to create sustainable societies.

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Yankton Sioux Hog Farm Protest

Here’s an issue going on right now that’s relevant to my sporadic ongoing series on American Indian political issues.
You can listen to this recent broadcast of Native America Calling to get a sense of the issues. (And there are many: tribal borders, jurisdiction, and environmental impacts, to name a few.)
From the Native America Calling website:
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Sweet Deal

Via the wonderful SWIP-L list, I’m informed of a new collection of essays called Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (Eds. Pogge and Horton). Here’s a blurb from the publisher:
In recent decades, there has been an explosion of interest in global ethics — the study of ethical issues with significant global dimensions. This book, a companion volume [...]

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Colbert Reports on Speciesism

Those who were interested in our earlier discussion of speciesism, might want to check out Stephen Colbert’s interview of Peter Singer. Of particular interest is Singer’s answer to Colbert’s “stumper question”: if we shouldn’t eat animals, why are they so delicious?
- Rico Vitz

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“Losing One’s Self”

… a colloquium with Cheshire Calhoun at the University of Miami today (Friday, February 2nd) at 3:30 P.M. Details available here.
In philosophy news from the northern part of the state today, UNF welcomes Benjamin Hale (Colorado), who will present his paper, “What’s So Moral about the Moral Hazzard?” at 4:00 P.M. For more details, contact the Department [...]

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The Fallacy of ‘Speciesism’

Since this is my first post I should probably begin by introducing myself. My name is Nicholas Comparato (as will hopefully appear with this post) and I am currently an undergraduate philosophy major at the University of North Florida. Recently I attended a colloquium regarding the unequal ethical treatment of animals in current society based primarily [...]

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The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition

Dr. Robert Jones (Stanford) will present his paper, “The Moral Significance of Animal Cognition,” at the University of North Florida on Friday, Jan. 26th. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact UNF’s Department of Philosophy.
- Rico Vitz

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Hi.

Hello, my name is Jay Heiny and I’m an undergraduate student of Philosophy at the University of North Florida. My studies have mostly focused on traditional ethical theory, but I have a wide scope of personal philosophical interests including religious studies, queer theory or gender studies, and environmental ethics. 
Currently, I find myself precariously interested in the ’Green’ movement. A [...]

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