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Distinguished by its focus on environmental philosophy, and the home of the journal Environmental Ethics, UNT Philosophy and Religion Studies emphasizes an applied or 'field' approach to philosophic problems. The department is also distinguished by a growing interest in science and technology studies, the relation between nature, society, and decision-making, and the construction of identity. More information? Click here.

• Tenure track position (Assistant Professor) to begin fall of 2009. AOS: Philosophy of science and technology broadly construed, especially bioethics/biotechnology and policy, and/or nanotechnology ethics and philosophy. Full announcement here.


• 11/4/08
  Dr. Ricardo Rozzi is the proud recipient of the Science and Practice of Ecology and Society Award 2008. This award represents an additional confirmation about the quality and relevance of our transdisciplinary field work in biocultural conservation.


• 11/4/08
  Dr. Simone van der Burg to give lecture "Societal Impacts of Sound-Light Technologies" sponsored by the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.


• 11/5, 11/6, 11/7, 11/8
  Ph.D candidate Jason Simus will be presenting "Ecological Citizenship and Environmental Art" at the annual meeting of the American Society For Aesthetics in Northampton, MA.
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• 9/16, 9/17, 9/18 - Dr. Steve Fuller to give series of lectures sponsored by the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, the Philosophy department, and the Political Science department.


• Master's student Charlee Tidrick receives Moving Water Award


• Robert Frodeman and Britt Holbrook awarded $400,000 NSF grant to study national and international models of peer review.


• Robert Frodeman wins a grant from NASA for $150k over 3 years in order to examine the ethical and philosophical dimension of global climate change.


• Dr. Carl Sachs' article "The Acknowledgment of Transcendence: Anti-Theodicy in Adorno and Levinas" to appear in "Philosophy and Social Criticism" vol. 35, 2009 or 2010, and his article "Nietzsche's 'Daybreak': Towards a Naturalized Theory of Autonomy" to appear in the fall edition of "Epoche."


• 7/22
  Dr. Gene Hargrove spoke on "The Preservation of Non-Biological Environments in the Solar System" at the NASA Lunar Science Conference at NASA Ames Research Center in California, 22 July 2008.


• 7/6
  UNT undergraduate Anthropology student Catalina Hungerford wins the best poster award at International Congress of Ethnobiology


• Professor Irene Klaver, PHD Student Bidisha Kumar, and other UNT students and faculty to participate in Emerald Eagle Thailand Study Abroad trip featured in InHouse


• 6/23-7/18
  Dr. Dale Wilkerson was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to join an interdisciplinary faculty workshop examining Western critical and historical receptions of Homer from the ancient to the late modern periods. The NEH summer seminar, "Homer's Readers", will be held at the University of Michigan.


• 6/19-6/22
  Dr. Robert Figueroa, PhD students Jason Simus and Jonathan Parker, and Master's student Nathan Bell will participate in the "Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World"conference at the University of Oregon.




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