The University of Texas at Austin

Program in the History and Philosophy of Science








Environmental Philosophy


Participants:

Ringan Douglas, Rob Fergus, Justin Garson, Bella B. Jordan,
Jack Justus, Chris Kelley, Betsy Levy, Baris Parkan,
Sahotra Sarkar, Katrinka Somdahl
 

Fall 1999


September 9

Flew, A.G.N. (1959), "The Structure of Dawinism", New Biology 28: 25-44.

Smith, John Maynard (1986), Problems of Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 48-58.

Gould, Stephan J (1994), "The Evolution of Life on the Earth", Scientific American 271: 85-91.


September 16

Pratt, C. R. (1995), Ecology. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse Corp, 1-22.

Moss, R. P. (1984), "Biogeography and Ecosystems", in Taylor, J. A. (ed.), Biogeography. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 106-131.

Bates, Marston (1990) "Biotic Communities", in Bates, Marston, (ed.) The Nature of Natural History. Cambridge, MA: Princeton Univ. Press, 106-121.

Lawton, John H. (1995), "Population Dynamic Principles", in Lawton, John H. and May, Robert M. (eds.) Extinction Rates. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 147-163.

Haldane, J. B. S (1953), "Animal Populations and Their Regulation," New Biology 15: 9-24.


September 23

Bates, Marston. (1990), "Biological Geography", in Bates, Marston. (ed.), The Nature of Natural History. Cambridge, Ma: Princeton Univ. Press, 187-203.

Watts, D. (1984), "The Spatial Dimension in Biogeography", in Taylor, J. A. (ed.), Biogeography. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 25-62.

Flenly, J. R. (1984), "Time Scales in Biogeography", in Taylor, J. A. (ed.), Biogeography. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 63-130.

Brown, James H. and Lomolino, Mark V. (1998), "The History of Biogeography", in Brown, James H. and Lomolino, Mark V. (eds.), Biogeography. (2nd ed.) Sunderland: Sinauer,13-35.

Gould, Stephen J. and Lewontin, Richard C. (1984), "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", in Sober, E. (ed.) Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press: 252-270.


September 30

Hutchinson, G. E. (1959), "Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?", The American Naturalist 153: 145-159.

Gómez-Pompa, A; Vázquez-Yanes, C; Guevara, S; "The Tropical Rain Forest: A Nonrenewable Resource," Science 177: 762-765.

Wilson, E. O. (1990), "Threats to Biodiversity" in Managing Planet Earth: Readings from Scientific American. San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Co, 51-59.

May, Robert M. (1992), "How Many Species Inhabit the Earth?", Scientific American 267: 185-193.

Gaston, Kevin J. (1996), "What is Biodiversity", in Gaston, Keven J. (ed.) Biodiversity. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science, 1-9.


October 7

Margules, Chris; Higgs, A. J; Rafe, R. W. (1982), "Modern Biogeographic Thoery: Are There Any Lessons for Reserve Design?", Biological Conservation 24: 115-128.

Margules, Chris and Nicholls, A. O. (1993), "Where Should Nature Reserves be located?", in Conservation Biology in Australia and Oceania. Chipping Norton, NSW: Sumey Beatty and Sons, 339-346.

Pressey, R. L; Humphries, C. J; Margules, C. R; Vane-Wright, R. I; and Williams, P. H. (1993), "Beyond Oppurtunism: Key Principles for Systematic Reserve Selection", Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8: 124-128.

Williams, Paul; Gibbons, David; Margules, Chris; Rebelo, Anthony; Humphries, Chris; and Pressey, Robert. (1996), "A Comparison of Richness Hotsposts, Rarity Hotspots, and Complementary Areas for Conserving Diversity of British Birds", Conservation Biology 19: 155-174.

Nicholls, A. O. and Margules, C. R. (1991), "The Design of Studies to Demonstrate the Biological Importance of Corridors", in Saunders, Denis A. and Hobbs, Richard J. Nature Conservation 2: The Role of Corridors. Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 49-61.


October 14

Vermeij, Geerat J. (1978), Biogeography and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 170-205.

May, Robert M; Lawton, John H; and Stork, Nigel E. (1995), "Assessing Extinction Rates", in Extinction Rates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-24.

Hardin, Garret. (1968), "The Tragedy of the Commons", Science 162: 1243-1248.

Daily, Gretchen C, and Ehrlich, Paul R. (1992), "Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity", Bioscience 42: 761-771.


October 21

Naess, Arne. (1986), "Intrinsic Value: Will The Defenders of Nature Please Rise?", in Soulé, Michael. (ed.), Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity. Sunderland: Sinauer, 504-515.

Rolston, Holmes. (1994), Conserving Natural Value. New York, NY: Columbia Press, 167-202.

Callicott, J. Baird. (1986), "On the Intrinsic Value of Nonhuman Species", in Norton, B. G. The Preservation of Species. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 138-172.

Regan, Donald H. (1986), "Duties of Preservation", in The Preservation of Species. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 195-220.


October 28

Norton, Bryan G. (1987), Why Preserve Natural Variety?. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 185-213.

Faith, Daniel P. (1995), "Biodiversity and Regional Sustainability Analysis", CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology Australia.


November 4

Kopp, Raymond; Krupnick, Alan J; and Toman, Michael. (1997), "Cost Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Reform: An Assessment of the Science and the Art", Washington, Dc: Resources for the Future.


November 11

Sagoff, Mark. (1993). "Environmental Economics: An Epitaph", Resources 111: 2-7.

Kopp, Raymond J. (1993), "Environmental Economics: Not Dead But Thriving", Resources 111: 7-12.

Sarkar, Sahotra. (1999), "Wilderness Preservation and Biodiversity Conservation - Keeping Divergent Goals Distinct", Bioscience 49: 405-412.

Sarkar, Sahotra. (1999), Letters, Bioscience 49: 687-688.

Johns, David M. (1998), "The Relevance of Deep Ecology to the Third World, Some Preliminary Comments", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 246-270.

Guha, Ramachandra. (1998), "Deep Ecology Revisited", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 271-279.

Naess, Arne. (1998), "The Third World, Wilderness, and Deep Ecology", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 280-292.

Waller, Donald M. (1998), "Getting Back to the Right Nature: A Reply to Cronon's 'The Trouble with Wilderness'", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 540-567.


November 18

Gómez-Pompa, Arturo and Kaus, Andrea. (1998), "Taming the Wilderness Myth", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 293-313.

Callicott, J. Baird. (1998), "The Wilderness Idea Revisited: The Sustainable Development Alternative", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 337-366.

Rolston III, Holmes. (1998), "The Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 367-386.

Callicott, J. Baird. (1998), "That Good Old-Time Wilderness Religion", in Callicott, J. Baird and Nelson, Michael P. (eds.), The Great New Wilderness Debate. London and Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 387-394.


December 2

Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (1999), "The Policy and Science of Regional Conservation", in Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (eds.), Continential Conservation Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Washington, DC : Island Press, 1-18.

Terbough, John; Estes, James A; Paquet, Paul; Ralls, Katherine; Boyd-Heger, Diane; Miller, Brian J; Noss, Reed F. (1999), "The Role of Top Carnivores in Regulating Terrestrial Ecosystems", in Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (eds.), Continential Conservation Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Washington, DC: Island Press, 40-65.

Simberloff, Daniel; Doak, Dan; Groom, Martha; Trombulak, Steve; Dobson, Andy; Gatewood, Steve; Soulé, Michael E; Gilpin, Michael; Martínez del Rio, Carlos; Mills, Lisa. (1999), "Rigional and Continental Restoration", in Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (eds.), Continential Conservation Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Washington, DC : Island Press, 65-98.

Noss, Reed; Dinerstein, Eric; Gilbert, Barrie; Gilpin, Michael; Miller, Brian J; Terbough, John, Trombulak, Steve. (1999), "Core Areas: Where Nature Reigns", in Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (eds.), Continential Conservation Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Washington, DC : Island Press, 99-128.

Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (1999), "Why We Need Mega-Reserves--and How to Design Them", in Soulé, Michael E. and Terbough, John. (eds.), Continential Conservation Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networks. Washington, DC : Island Press, 199-210.



Spring 2000


February 1

Leopold, Aldo. (1970), A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 3-100.

Leopold, Aldo. (1970), "The Land Ethic", in A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 237-363.

Leopold, Aldo. (1970), "Wilderness", in A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 264-279.

Leopold, Aldo. (1970), "Conservation Esthetic", in A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 280-295.

Leopold, Aldo. (1970), "Wildlife in American Culture", in A Sand County Almanac With Essays on Conservation from Round River. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 211-222.


February 8

Turner, Jack. (1996), The Abstract Wild. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press.


February 15

Diegues, Antonio Carlos Sant'Ana. (1998), The Myth of Untamed Nature in the Brazilian Rainforest. Sâo Paulo, Brasil: NUPAUB - Research Center on Human Population and Wetlands - University of Sâo Paulo.  


February 29

Guha, Ramachandra and Alier, J. Martinez-Alier. (1998) Varieties of Environmentalism Essays North and South. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.


March 21

Korsgaard, Christine. (1996) "Two Distinctions in Goodness", in Korgaard, Christine. Creating the Kingdom of Ends. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Ch. 9.

O'neill, John. (1992) "The Varieties of Intrinsic Value", Monist 75: 119 -137.

Regan, Tom. (1992) "Does Environmental Ethics Rest on a Mistake?", Monist 75: 161 -182.

Norton, Bryan G. (1992) "Epistemology and Environmental Values", Monist 75: 208 -226.

Rolston III, Holmes. (1992) "Disvalues in Nature", Monist 75: 250 -278.

Sarkar S. 2000. Cultures of Nature: Biological Conservation under Philosophical Scrutiny. Book Mss. Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.


April 18

Turner, R. Kerry; Pearce, David; Bateman, Ian. (1993) Environmental Economics An Elementary Introduction. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Munasinghe, Mohan. (1993) Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development. Washington, D.C., World Bank Environmental Paper 3.

Faith, Daniel P. (1995), "Biodiversity and Regional Sustainability Analysis", CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology Australia.