Thinking Through Nature

Today I attended part of a conference, Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World. In the morning, I saw a panel talk by Madronna Holden called "Toward an Environmental Philosophy of Resilience." This was well received. She's a friend/colleague of my friend DO, and I've heard her talk before, on storytelling and health.

Then in the evening, I went to see John Llewellyn, a British continental philosopher who has done a great deal of work on animals and ethics. His keynote talk was called "Barbarism, Humanism and Democratic Ecology," and I'm afraid he spent just over an hour obscurely saying almost nothing, which led to the frustrated audience respectfully but repeatedly asking him to explain further. ( Details. )

I hope that this talk didn't use up my tolerance for sitting and listening to speakers, because the conference isn't over yet.

Also today: B. went back to Portland after visiting us for six days, and D. and I watched a new Pokémon movie.