Biodiversity at Twenty-Five
Interdisciplinary Free Public Seminar Series 2013-2014
Can Biodiversity Ground Normative Truths?
Fall 2013
November, 21 2013
Donald S. Maier
4:00-5:30 pm
Jaqua Center Auditorium
Link to the Talk: Video Recoding
UO’s Grad Students engaging with Don Maier’s work on BioDiverse Perspectives blog:
Tim C. Myers - “Does the Biodiversity Norm Short-Circuit Ethics? Donald Maier’s
Contribution to the Biodiversity Debate”
Lorien Reynolds - “Philosophical challenges to the role of science in conservation: An
ecologist’s response to “What’s so good about biodiversity?”
Linking Biodiversity and Watershed Benefits:
Do You Buy It?
Winter 2014
March 12, 2014
4:00-5:30 pm
Jaqua Center Auditorium
Link to the Talk: Video Recoding
UO’s Grad Students soon engaging with David Hooper’s work on BioDiverse Perspectives blog.
Lucas Nebert - “Biodiversity lost in translation: what happens when you reduce ecosystems to
Shane Hall - “An attempt at a ‘Bio-Compositionist” Manifesto: research and policy
recommendations from David Hooper’s visit to U of Oregon”
‘Biodiversity’: The Right Framework Concept
for Conservation Biology?
Spring 2014
May 12, 2014
4:00-5:30 pm
Jaqua Center Auditorium
Link to the Talk: Video Recoding
UO’s Grad Students soon engaging with Kim Sterelny’s work on BioDiverse Perspectives blog.
Jon LaRochelle - Clarifying “biodiversity,” but is it enough?
