Monday, September 23, 2013 3:30 p.m. 2-425 Lilly Agronomy Seminar, Co-sponsored by the ESE-IGP "Entitlement/Privilege/Equity in the Intersection Between Agriculture, Environment and Social Justice" Jonathan Beever Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute [cid:image003.png@01CEB7BE.C44E0600]The stability of conservation values is often taken for granted, e.g., conserve biodiversity, maintain ecosystem health, and sustain ecosystem services. From national funding agencies to individual researchers and practitioners, stakeholders at all levels coalesce around key normative notions of good and bad. However, on what grounds are these claims about the value of "being green" justified? Do familiar conservation values merely cover up deeper problems? In this seminar, I will push us to think more critically about the reasons we give for the values we each hold and suggest that "being green" is actually a much more radical idea than we might think. Dr. Jonathan Beever received his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at Purdue in December 2012 and is the co-founder of the Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science, an ongoing seminar series in bioethics at Purdue University (www.purdue.edu/bioethics). Linda S. Lee Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Associate Head Ecological Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Program Head, www.purdue.edu/ese<http://www.purdue.edu/ese> 3-363 Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907 Office: (765) 494-8612; Cell (765) 414-3086 lslee@purdue.edu<mailto:lslee@purdue.edu>
