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4/9/07

CLIMATE CHANGE IS TOPIC FOR MACKAY LECTURE AT SLU

CANTON - "The Moral and Political Challenges of Climate Change" is the topic for the 2007 Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University, by Dale Jamieson, professor of environmental studies and philosophy at New York University. The lecture, on Monday, April 16, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden on the St. Lawrence campus, is open to the public, free of charge.

St. Lawrence Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Outdoor Studies Program Baylor L. Johnson and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy J. Robert Loftis will offer responses following the lecture.

Jamieson is a leading figure in environmental ethics and bioethics. His most recent book, Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002), covers questions concerning the morality of our relationships to other animals and to nature, setting a "challenging, controversial agenda for the future." He is also the editor or co-editor of seven books, including A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Blackwell, 2001) and Singer and His Critics (Blackwell, 1999), named by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1999.

The Mackay Memorial Lecture was established in memory of Kathryn Fraser Mackay '77 by her family, to honor her interests and spirit. Traditionally, coordination of the lectures alternates between the departments of philosophy and religious studies.

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