Ted Toadvine (philosophy) and Brendan Bohannon (biology) will team-teach this course next year, which they will develop this summer with support from the Oregon Humanities Center.
Toadvine and Bohannon are also recipients of the prestigious Robert F. Wulf and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship in the Humanities for 2009-10.
Officially, the full name of their new course will be "The Philosophy of Ecology: The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge" -- making explicit the connection between philosophical and ecological concerns.
Their new course will investigate the role of ethics in environmental decision-making, the methods and assumptions that guide scientific work, and the ways in which scientific evidence should be weighed alongside other concerns in the decision-making process -- with special attention to the essential role of ethical evaluations and judgments.
- Lisa Raleigh
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