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Dear Professors,
Dear Colleagues,
Ladies and Gentlemen

Please, permit me to inform you that

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GREEK PHILOSOPHY (IAGP )
THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR GREEK PHILOSOPHY & CULTURE (ICGPC)
THE SOCIETY FOR ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY (SAGP - USA)
THE GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
and other academic and cultural institutions and organizations

have decided to organise the:

TWENTY SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHILOSOPHY

on the topic :

“THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENVIRONMENT:
NATURE AND CRUCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE 21st CENTURY.”

The Conference will take place from 16th – 22nd of July 2010, in the town
of Kalamata, Messinia, Greece.

The conference aims to provide a broad forum for exploring issues
referring to Nature and to Environmental Philosophy which are crucial in
our era. This means that all legitimate fields of study and philosophical
research are included in the scope of the Conference, provided that their
relevance to environmental issues in 21st century is clearly indicated. We
are particularly interested in all branches of philosophy as far as they
are exploring environmental issues and of course we pay special attention
to academic research papers from all philosophical traditions referring to
environmental philosophy, broadly conceived (and not just as environmental
ethics), which investigate crucial issues and problems concerning the
environment, and generally Ecological Philosophy.

The Conference will examine, in a scholarly way, matters of various
philosophical traditions, concerning nature in relation to environmental
concern. This will include: Philosophical traditions of West and East, for
example Greek philosophy and nature; Christian attitude towards nature;
Christian philosophy and ecology; Islamic philosophy of nature and
ecology; European philosophy of nature; Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
etc. conceptions of nature and their implication to our present and future
environmental problems.

In addition, the Conference aims to subject modern environmental theories,
philosophies, and movements to a critical philosophical examination in
which their metaphysical, political and ethical premises will be
indicated, and to arrive at guidelines for further philosophical inquiry
and at a framework for policy-making in environmental affairs.

The conference is open to all philosophers, specialists in Greek
philosophy and culture, environmental scientists, engineers, economists,
educationists, rhetoricians and communication specialists, lawyers,
politicians, government officials, health and medical professionals, and
concerned citizens who are interested and dedicated to finding ways to
bring insight and cures to the ecological crisis of our times by defending
environmental policies and protecting the environment.

The main subject areas of the Conference (which may include history of
concepts and sources, and contemporary methodological, moral, political
and scientific issues), are likely to be divided into broad topics along
the following lines:

1. The philosophy of human nature, natural world and environmental
concern; 2. Environmental philosophy of education;
3. Environmental political philosophy and the philosophy of environmental
politics;
4. Philosophy, ecology and economics: The philosophy of sustainable
development and ecological economics;
5. The philosophy of environmental theories: Deep ecology, radical
ecology, restoration ecology, ecofeminism, etc.;
6. Environmental values. Biodiversity and other values in environmental
philosophy;
7. Philosophy, science, art, technology and the environment, including
deep science, deep technology and their related environmental issues; 8.
The concept of ecological philosophy;
9. The economy of the Earth in philosophy, law, and environmental
economics; 10. Environmental health, public communication and
environmental protection.

For more information, please consult the websites:
http://www.hri.org/iagp/, http://www.iagp.gr

You may also address your questions to the President of the organizing
committee:
Professor Konstantinos Boudouris
University of Athens
E-mail: kboud714@ppp.uoa.gr


Thank you for your attention.

Aikaterini Lefka
Maître de conférences - ULg
Researcher - UniLu/Towson University

Member of the organizing committee
Philia - ΦΙΛΙΑ

Belgian Area of Interdisciplinary Exchanges on the Mediterranean Antiquity and its Survival
