“What’s in a Name? Anthropocentrist, Biocentrist, and Hermeneutic Appropriations of the Natural World.” Presented to the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology at its meeting in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association in Milwaukee, Nov. 2007. “What is the Problem with Plastic Trees?” Presented at the Society for Ecological Restoration’s Biannual International Meeting in ” in San Jose, Aug. 2007. “Ecological Restoration as the Art of Playing with Nature.” Presented at the Annual Joint Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics and the International Society for Environmental Ethics in Boulder, CO, May 2007. “Can Cities be both Natural and Successful?” Presented at the Second Natural City Symposium in Toronto, June 2006. “Heidegger on the Scientific Appreciation of Nature.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy in Toronto, May 2006. “Heidegger and the Paradox of Ecological Restoration.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Environmental Philosophy in Salt Lake, Oct. 2005. “Restoring Nature through Technology?” Presented at the Society for Ecological Restoration’s Annual International Meeting in Zaragoza, Spain, October 2005. “Terrorism, ‘Just War,’ and the Problem of Collective Responsibility.” Presented at the Political Theory Conference “Terrorism, Democracy, and Empire,” held at Ottawa, Sept. 2005. “Seeing Through Technology.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association in London, ON, May 2005. “The Violence of Words.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy in London, ON, May 2005. “How shall we remember the Birkenhead? Selfishness, Self-sacrifice, and the Lifeboat Ethic.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Environmental Philosophy in Memphis, Oct. 2004. “Reason, Religion, and the Impulse to Destroy: Heidegger and King on the Moral Cost of Resistance.” Presented to the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology in Memphis, Oct. 2004. “Playing at the Edge between Nature and Culture: Gadamer and the Possibility of Aesthetically Sensitive Ecological Restoration.” Presented at the Society for Ecological Restoration’s Annual International Meeting in Victoria, Canada, August 2004.
“Some Thoughts on the Possibility of Good Faith,” a commentary on three papers presented to the Sartre Society Annual Meeting, Feb. 1999. “Liberalism, Feminism, and the Promise of Lovibond’s Moral Realism,” at the Annual Meeting of SPEP, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, held at the University of Colorado at Denver, Oct. 1998. “Dworkin and the Dynamics of Statutory Interpretation,” a response to Patrick Brennan’s presentation at the Lonergan Society Meeting held in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association’s Annual Meeting, Mar. 1998. “[Writing] about Writing about Kierkegaard.” Soren Kierkegaard Society, Los Angeles, Mar. 1994. “On Communicative Actors Talking Past One Another: The Gadamer-Habermas Debate.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. New Orleans, Oct. 1993. “Insightful but Ultimately Absurd? Umberto Eco on Aquinas’s Aesthetics.” SSIPS/SAGP Annual Meeting. SUNY Binghamton, Oct. 1993. Professional Service: Co-Editor, Environmental Philosophy, Oct. 2005 to the present. Book Review Editor, Environmental Philosophy Oct. 2003 to May, 2007. Co-President, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Oct. 2005 to Oct 2009 Secretary, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Oct. 2003-Oct. 2005. Book manuscript reviewer for SUNY Press, the University of Toronto Press, and Indiana University Press. Paper reviewer for the journals Environmental Philosophy and Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, Environment Space and Place, and for the Contemporary European Philosophy Section of the Canadian Philosophical Association. Academic Awards and Grants: Loyola Marymount University. Faculty Summer Research Grant ($5000), 2015.