Lecture on environmental stewardship
As part of a series of lectures on intergenerational stewardship culture in radioactive waste management, Nuclear Transparency Watch and Université Panthéon Sorbonne IHPST has the pleasure of inviting you to a lecture on environmental stewardship. The event is not specifically related to nuclear issues.
Lecturer is Robin Attfield, who by many people is considered the Nestor of environmental philosophy in the English-speaking world outside North America, is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy for 45 years. He is also a former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. His body of work covers many other aspects of contemporary philosophy and stretches more than forty years back. Among his most well-known and recent books are The Ethics of the Global Environment (1999/2015), Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2018), Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century (2003/2014), Environmental Philosophy: Principles and Prospects (1994), The Ethics of Environmental Concern (1983/1991), Ethics: An Overview (2012), Value, Obligation and Meta-Ethics (1995), A Theory of Value and Obligation (1987), Wonder, Value and God (2018) and God and The Secular: A Philosophical Assessment of Secular Reasoning from Bacon to Kant (1978/1993).
The lecture will touch on topics such as the concept of environmental stewardship, historical evidence of stewardship beliefs, secular stewardship, objections concerning the relation of humanity to nature, and political and philosophical objections to stewardship.
Lien Zoom : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83691274698
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