Deane Curtin

Books

  • Postcolonial Environmental Ethics (Work in progress).
  • Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World (Rowman and Littlefield February 2005).
  • Chinnagounder's Challenge: The Question of Ecological Citizenship (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, November 1999).
  • Institutional Violence, co-editor with Robert Litke (Holland: Rodopi Press, 1999).
  • Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food, co-authored and edited with Lisa Heldke (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
  • The Aesthetic Dimension of Science, editor (New York, The Philosophical Library, 1982).

Public Presentations

  • "Educating for Ecological Sustainability," Keynote Address, First International Congress and Second National Congress, Education for Sustainable Development, Csar Vallejo University, Trujillo, Peru, August 1, 2006.
  • "Educating for Ecological Sustainability," Keynote Address, I Red del Puru, Y Red del Sur, Quillabanba-Cuzco, Peru, August 5, 2006.
  • "Ecological Citizenship," New York University, May 27, 2004.
  • "Is There a Population Problem?" Keynote Address, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Annual Meeting, April 16-17, 2004.
  • "Ecological Citizenship," Macalester College, September 22-23, 2000.
  • "The Ethics of International Development," Arizona State University West, October 1999.
  • "David Abrams The Spell of the Sensuous," national meeting of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), University of Montana, June 1998.
  • "Ethics Across Cultural Borders," An Inaugural Lecture for the Raymond and Florence Sponberg Chair of Ethics, Gustavus Adolphus College, Wednesday, March 5, 1997.
  • "The Uses of Indigenousness in Western Environmental Philosophy," Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 30 1996, Atlanta.
  • Special session organized by the International Environmental Ethics Association, "Liberal Imperialism or Local Knowledge? Questions for the Population/Environment Debate," International Workshop on Population, Environment and Society at the Verge of the 21st Century, Tel Aviv University, December 10-12, 1995.
  • "Educating for Social Justice," featured speaker at the national meeting of Deans of Lutheran Colleges, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 21, 1995.
  • "Democratic Discourse in a World of Ethical Pluralism," Seventh East/West International Philosophy Conference, The East-West Center, University of Hawaii, January 1995.
  • "Dogen, Food and Feminism," weekend retreat leader, Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, New York, May 1995.
  • "Why Should We Care About the Third World?" Concordia College, March 1995.
  • (Scholar-in-Residence) "Democratic Values and International Conflict over the Environment," Concordia College, March 1995.
  • (Scholar-in-Residence) "Indigenous Womens Environmental Expertise," Concordia College, March 1995.
  • (Scholar-in-Residence) "New Directions in Environmental Ethics," St. Johns University, April 1995.
  • "New Directions in Environmental Ethics," North Hennepin Community College, April 1995.
  • "GATT, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Autonomy," First National Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association, Drake University, November 1994.
  • "Democratic Discourse is a World of Ethical Pluralism," National Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Villanova University, September 1994.
  • "Food, Body, and the Construction of the Third World," part of a two hour session devoted to Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December, 1993, Atlanta.
  • "The Development of American Attitudes Toward the Environment," Gurukul Theological Institute, Madras, India, September 1993.
  • "The Development of American Attitudes Toward the Environment," Madras Christian College, Chennai (Madras), India October 1993.
  • "What is Development?" Gurukul Theological Institute, Madras, India, November 1994.
  • "What is Development?" Centre for Research on New International Economic Order, Chennai (Madras), India, November, 1994.
  • "The Roles of Women in Ecodevelopment," Centre for Research on New International Economic Order, Chennai (Madras), India, December 1994.
  • "The Roles of Women in Ecodevelopment," Gurukul Theological Institute, Chennai (Madras), India, December 1994.
  • "Making Peace With the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Peace Politics of the Green Revolution," American Philosophical Association, April 23, 1993.
  • "Indigenous Womens Agriculture and the Peace Politics of the Green Revolution," Concerned Philosophers for Peace, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, October 1992.
  • "Womens Knowledge as Expert Knowledge: Indian Women and Ecodevelopment," International Development Ethics Association, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 1992.
  • "Animal Rights," Mankato State University, March, 1992.
  • "Community-Based Development in India," 1990 meeting of the Southwest ELCA Synod of Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus College, November 1990.
  • "Gandhian Development," retreat of ELCA women, Retreat Center, Northfield, Minnesota, April 1989.
  • "The Ethics of Eating," Concerned Philosophers for Peace, University of Notre Dame, October 1990.
  • "How Not to Define the Work of Art," Hamline University, October, 1988.
  • Address to the graduating class, Kansai Gaidai University, Hirakata City, Japan, October, 1988.
  • "Theories of Visual Perception," Hamline University, April, 1983.

Published Articles

  • "Gandhian Legacies, Ethical Challenges to Business as Usual," Shari Collins-Chobanian , ed., Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • "Contextual, Moral Vegetarianism," ed. Steven Sapontzis, The Debate Over Eating Meat, Prometheus, forthcoming 2003.
  • "Ecological Citizenship, Handbook of Citizenship Studies: Foundations, Approaches, Histories, Forms," Bryan S. Turner (Cambridge University) and Engin F. Isin (York University), eds. Sage Publications, London, 2002.
  • "Recognizing Womens Environmental Expertise," Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, second edition, Michael E. Zimmerman, et. al. eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2000.
  • "A State of Mind Like Water, Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Deep Ecology," Eric Katz, Andrew Light, David Rothenberg, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
  • "Liberal Imperialism or Local Knowledge? Questions for the Population/Environment Debate," Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, (India) 1999.
  • "Proceedings of the International Workshop on Population, Environment and Society at the Verge of the 21st Century," Tel Aviv University, December 10-12, 1995.
  • "Contextual Moral Vegetarianism in Ethical Vegetarianism; From Pythagoras to Peter Singer," Lisa Portmess and Kerry Walters, eds. State University of New York Press, 1999.
  • (Different article from above) "Making Peace With the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Peace Politics of the Green Revolution," (revised version) Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach (second edition), Larry May, Shari Collins-Chobanian, and Kai Chong Wong, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1998.
  • (Also forthcoming in third edition, 2001) "Womens Knowledge as Expert Knowledge: Indian Women and Ecodevelopment," in Ecological Feminism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Karen Warren, Indiana University Press, 1997.
  • "A State of Mind Like Water: Ecosophy T and the Buddhist Traditions," Inquiry, (Norway) vol. 39, no. 2, June 1996 (special issue in honor of Arne Naess).
  • "Gandhian Legacies: Indigenous Resistance to Development in India and Mexico," published October 2, 1995 in Mahatma Gandhi: 125 Years, a special volume to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhis birth; Gandhian Institute of Studies, Varanasi, India. Manmohan Choudhuri and Ramjee Singh, editors.
  • "Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care,"(reprint) Ecological Feminist Philosophies, ed. Karen Warren, Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • "Making Peace With the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Peace Politics of the Green Revolution," reprint in Bringing Peace Home: Feminism, Violence, and Nature, Karen Warren and Duane Cady, eds., Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • "Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care," reprint Beyond Animal Rights, ed. Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan, Continuum Press, 1996.
  • "Making Peace With the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Peace Politics of the Green Revolution," Environmental Ethics, spring 1995.
  • "Dogen, Deep Ecology, and the Ecological Self," Environmental Ethics, vol. 16, (Summer 1994).
  • "Mothering: Moral Cultivation in Buddhist and Feminist Ethics," (with John Powers) Philosophy East and West, vol. 44, no 1, 1994.
  • "Food/Body/Person," in Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food. Deane Curtin and Lisa Heldke, editors. Indiana University Press, 1992.
  • "Recipes for Values," in Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food. Deane Curtin and Lisa Heldke, editors. Indiana University Press, 1992.
  • "Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care," Hypatia vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1991).
  • "Varieties of Aesthetic Formalism," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Spring 1982.