[Philosop] Reminder: CfA - History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought

[Luis Fellipe Garcia]

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Call for Abstracts

Theme: History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought

Venue: KU Leuven (hybrid format)

Date: March 28^th and 29^th, 2025

Deadline for submissions: December 13^th, 2024

Notification of acceptance: January 10^th, 2025

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The ongoing environmental crisis has given rise to reflections in various areas of philosophy, including discussions in ethics about the intrinsic value of nature, debates in political philosophy about intergenerational justice, and broader reassessments of theories about science, knowledge, aesthetics, anthropology, and ontology.

 

In parallel, some scholars have sought to engage with the history of philosophy in light of the questions raised by current environmental challenges. Such an engagement can take the form either of a critical reassessment of modern philosophers’ views on science (Merchant 1979; Prigogine & Stengers 1984) or of an attempt to draw on different traditions of the history of philosophy to further our understanding of the current crisis. New approaches to environmental problems have thus been developed by drawing on concepts from Kant’s philosophy (Breitenbach 2022), romanticism (Nassar 2022), hermeneutics (Utsler et al 2014), phenomenology (Brown & Toadvine 2003), pragmatism (Hailwood 2015), among others.

 

This conference seeks to reinforce this recent trend by bringing together researchers working at the interface of the history of philosophy and environmental philosophy. All abstracts that tackle environmental problems from a historico-philosophical perspective are welcome. The aim of the event is to stimulate discussions about the philosophical challenges posed by the current crisis.

 

Confirmed speakers:

- Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney)  

- Angela Breitenbach (University of Cambridge)

- Keith Peterson (Colby College)

- Anna Wienhues (KU Leuven)

- Stephen Howard (University of Freiburg)

- Luis Fellipe Garcia (KU Leuven)

 

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted by December 13^th, 2024, to hpet...@gmail.com. Abstracts, including the title, should be prepared for double-blind review by removing any identification details. The author’s name, paper title, institutional affiliation, and contact information should be included in the body of the email. Abstracts should be submitted in English.

  

Organizer:

- Luis Fellipe Garcia, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven.

For additional information, see conference website.

  

 

*Bibliography mentioned in the abstract:

Breitenbach, Angela (2022): “Kant on the Value of Nature”. Studi Kantiani 35: 11–25.

Brown, Charles/Toadvine, Ted (2003). Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself (New York: State University of New York Press).

Hailwood, Simon (2015). Alienation and Nature in Environmental Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Merchant, Carolyn (1979). The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (San Francisco: Harper and Row).

Nassar, Dalia (2022): Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press).

Prigogine, Ilya/Stengers, Isabelle (1984). Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (London: Heinemann).

   Utsler, David/Clingerman, Forrest/Drenthen, Martin/Treanor, Brian (2014). Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (New York: Fordham University Press).