The American Philosophical Association’s 2025 Central Division meeting will be the first APA conference to be held virtually without a pandemic, for reasons of environmental sustainability and accessibility. This is an experiment and an exciting historic moment, offering a chance to participate without the burdens of traveling and without causing significant environmental damage. Philosophers for Sustainability is organizing a Climate Hub as one strand of the conference, similar to the Teaching Hub at recent APA conferences, with a combination of invited and submitted sessions on a range of topics connected to both philosophy and climate change. We aim especially to make progress in practice toward addressing the climate crisis through teaching, curriculum development, event organizing, public philosophy, and institutional change.
Organizers
Simona Capisani (simona.capisani@durham.ac.uk) and
Eugene Chislenko (chislenko@temple.edu)
on behalf of Philosophers for Sustainability (philosophersforsustainability@gmail.com)
Register here: APA Central Division Meeting.
Full Climate Hub program available below.
American Philosophical Association (Central Division) 2025 Meeting
Climate Hub
February 27-28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
10:00-11:40am Shifting Academic Institutions
Chair:
- Simona Capisani (Durham University)
Presenters:
- “Committee on Campus Climate Change,” Craig Callender (UC San Diego)
- “Incorporating Critical Discussion of Geoengineering into Environmental Philosophy Classrooms,” Alzbeta Hajkova (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Noor Jaleel (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- “The Embedded Ethicist Model in Environmental Ethics,” Dustin Sigsbee (University of South Carolina) and Matthew Kisner (University of South Carolina)
12:30-2:10pm Workshop: Sustainable Practices in Philosophy
Chair:
- Eugene Chislenko (Temple University)
2:30-4:10pm Minorities and Philosophy session: Climate Change and Departmental Change
Chair:
- Megha Arora (University of Connecticut)
Presenters:
- César Valenzuela (Stanford University)
- Kate Brelje (James Madison University & Bridgewater College)
- Britta Clark (Harvard University)
- Megha Arora (University of Connecticut)
4:30-5:00pm MAPpy Hour (informal time with Minorities and Philosophy)
Chair:
- J.C. Ward (Wake Forest University)
Friday, February 28, 2025
10:00-11:40am Public Session: Indigenous Environmental Ethics (Click for Zoom Link)
Chair:
- Kian Mintz Woo (University College Cork)
Presenters:
- Deborah McGregor (York University), “An Anishinaabe Ontology of Indigenous Environmental Justice”
- Krushil Watene (University of Auckland),“Kaitiakitanga Across Vast Distances in Time and Space”
12:30-2:10pm International Society for Environmental Ethics Session
Chair:
- Levi Tenen (Virginia Wesleyan University)
Presenters:
- “The Community of Justification, Democratic Deliberation, and Climate Justice,” J. Michael Scoville (Eastern Michigan University)
- “Cultivating Ecological Citizenship by Reimagining Schools as Ecological Partners,” Rebecca Lucas (St. Michael’s Grammar School)
- “How to Narrate a Climate Crisis? A Comparative Analysis of Narration in Select Contemporary German Literature,” Jaya Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
2:30-4:10pm Teaching Sustainability – Two Interactive Workshops
Chair:
- Eric Godoy (Illinois State University)
Presenters:
- “Collaboratively Designing Climate Change-Focused Courses—An Interactive Workshop,” Nora Mills Boyd (Siena College) and Melissa Rees (Siena College)
- “First-Person and Third-Person Knowledge in Environmental Education: How to Use Spring Break Travel to Study Sustainability,” Karl Aho (Tarleton State University) and Anne Egelston (Tarleton State University)
4:30-5:00pm Informal Hangout: Taking Stock & Looking Ahead
Chairs:
- Simona Capisani (Durham University) and Eugene Chislenko (Temple University)