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The Annual Karbank Symposium offers a forum for discussing issues in environmental philosophy broadly construed. Topics range from biodiversity, transgenic respeciation and global warming to nature aesthetics. The colloquia are designed to provide a forum for distinguished philosophers of various backgrounds to address their work to a broad audience. Symposium is named in honor of Steven Karbank, a generous benefactor of the Boston University Department of Philosophy and major sponsor of the series. Various speakers.
Richard Primack, CAS Biology, discusses “Thoreau as a Climate Change Scientist”; Max Oelschlaeger, Northern Arizona University, discusses "Thoreau’s Anticipations of Human Agency in Ecological Context"; William Rossi, University of Oregon, discusses "Thoreauvian Science and the Environmental Subject"; and Alfred Tauber, CAS Philosophy, discusses "Thoreau's Pantheism and the Birth of American Environmentalism”.
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