ECO-PHENOMENOLOGY
EFB 796 /EFB 797 (Course# 11555)
1 Credit Hour

SALON I SCHEDULE:

• 6:00 pm -- Check in and arrival at Huntington Lodge (HL)
• 6:30 pm -- Dinner & orientation: Philo Sophia: A Contour of the Discipline

Saturday

• 7:30 - 8:30am -- Breakfast at HL
• 8:30 - 10am -- Presentation, The Ancients
• 10:00 - 12:30 pm -- Dialectical examination of the readings
• 12:00 - 2:00 pm -- Lunch & free time
• 2:00 - 3:30 pm -- Presentation, Going Medieval
• 3:30 - 4:30 pm -- Dialectical examination of the readings
• 4:30 - 6:00 pm -- Presentation, 17th - 18th Century Modern Philosophy
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm -- Dinner at HL
• 7:00 pm -- Turing Test: "The imitation game"

Sunday

• 7:30 - 8:30 am -- Breakfast at HL
• 8:30 - 9:30am -- Presentation, 19th Century Modern Philosophy
• 9:30 - 10:30am -- Dialectical examination of the readings
• 12:00 pm -- Lunch, planning for section II and departure

 SALON II SCHEDULE:

Friday

• 6:00 pm -- Check in and arrival at Huntington Lodge (HL)
• 6:30 pm -- Dinner and film, The Trial (1963), based on the book by Franz Kafka, discussion

Saturday

• 7:30 - 8:30am -- Breakfast at HL
• 8:30 - 10:30 am -- Reading
  • Sterelny, K. in the journal Philosophy of Science, "Ecological Communities" (Distributed and read in residence)
• 10:30 am - 1:00 pm -- Class discussion of the reading, walk & lunch
• 1:00 - 2:00 pm -- Free time
• 2:00 - 3:00 pm -- Brown, C. & Toadvine, T. "Eco-Phenomenology An Introduction" in Eco-Phenomenology, discussion
• 3:00 - 4:00 pm -- Frodeman, R. "Philosophy in the Field" in Rethinking Nature, discussion
• 4:00 - 5:00 pm -- Kirkman, R. "Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human Predicament" in Rethinking Nature, discussion
• 5:00 pm -- Dinner
• 6:00 pm -- High stakes philosophical trivia

Sunday

• 7:30 - 8:30 am -- Breakfast at HL
• 8:30 - 11:30 pm -- Reading and discussion
  • Hargrove, E. "The Ontological Argument for the Preservation of Nature" in Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (Distributed and read in residence), discussion
  • Oelschlaeger, M. "Ecological Restoration, Aldo Leopold, and Beauty: An Evolutionary Tale" in Environmental Philosophy (Distributed and read in residence), discussion
• 11:30 - 12:00 pm -- Lunch and discussion of the meaning, value and application of the philosophy of science, departure
  • Aristotle believed that education was an exercise of the body as well as the mind, so weather permitting consider that we'll conduct some of these conversations outside or on a walk and bring appropriate gear.