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Dallas Area Philosophical Society

Whose Public Land is it anyway?

3/8/2016

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-Whose Public Land is it anyway?
A public discussion on the multifaceted issue of using, or not using, the most basic national resource of all Americans:  land. 
Recent controversies over the issues like dealing with pollution, fracking in populated areas, grazing privately owned cattle on public land, and, closer to home, how to manage the public lands around DFW lakes, has brought a sense of urgency to a topic that has always been a fundamental American question – Whose land is it?  A follow on question from that one, is equally controversial – Who decides what to do with it?  At the bottom of such a question is how we conceive of the concept of “public” and who shall act as its steward.

Where and when:  TWU(Denton), CFO Building Rm. 202, April 9  1pm-4pm
 
Our website:  dapstexas.org

Speakers:

Anthony Sanders - President of Philosophia Eudiamonia: Got his start in public land when he graduated from his Parks Law Enforcement Academy in Washington State where he learned the basics in the ways the public not only utilizes the land but also how to manage the balance between preservation and public usage of the land. He went onto his first profession within the public lands as a State Park Ranger for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation for 4 years. Moved on to be a US Park Ranger(Law Enforcement) for the National Park Service working at places like Cape Cod National Seashore and Grand Canyon National Park. Anthony also focused his academics in Environmental Philosophy being able to earn his degree from UNT while studying under many of the great pioneers in the field. Anthony is also President of a community philosophy organization named Philosophia Eudiamonia that has Socratic discussions in coffee shops and such in a form called Socrates Cafes.
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Shane Epting
- UNT Professor: successfully defended his dissertation this October. He has published articles in Philosophia, Science and Engineering Ethics, Contemporary Justice Review, and Interdisciplinary Environmental Review. His research interests include applied ethics, normative ethics, and metaphysics. Along with Jules Simon (UT El Paso), he will co-edit the Philosophy of the City Journal. He is a founding member and Vice President of the Philosophy of the City Research Group, an affiliate group within the American Philosophical Association. This past June, members of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association elected him as their Vice President for 2015-2017.   
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Ron Menguitea:  Denton County Zoning Commission

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Leigh Thompson – Texas Public Policy Foundation

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Dr. Irene Klaver – UNT Professor, Director of the Philosophy of Water Project





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DAPS is up and running again! Welcome Back!

10/14/2015

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DAPS first public panel discussion on October 27th 2012
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April 26th, 2014

4/14/2014

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

David Wright - Deputy Regional Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-Dallas

David entered CMS through the Presidential Management Internship program in June 1993.  During his nineteen years with the agency, he has worked in provider terminations, beneficiary services, media relations, Medicare policy, State Representative, hospital team lead, Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator, Manager of the Long Term Care Enforcement Branch, and Associate Regional Administrator for the Division of Survey and Certification.  In that position, he was responsible for the professional and clinical staff charged with the certification and enforcement (including EMTALA) of over 9,000 long term and acute care Medicare-certified providers and suppliers in a five-state region. David currently serves as the Deputy Regional Administrator for the CMS-Dallas Regional Office. 

David received his undergraduate degree in Political Science at Texas A&M University, and his Masters of Public Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.  He has served as a member of the Adjunct Faculty at both Brookhaven Community College and the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Mary Ellen Bluntzer, HOH Board President

Mary is a board certified internal medicine doctor who has been in private practice for 25 years. She was certified in addiction medicine in 1988. She volunteers for the Human Rights Initiative doing forensic examinations for torture survivors. She was a founding member of the Dallas Historic Tree Coalition. She was co-presenter at Texas Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, "Bearing Witness: the Cost of Caring," in 1993, one of the first sessions ever to address Compassion Fatigue. She has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of American Medical Association, and the Journal of Critical Illness.


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Welcome

3/24/2014

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About Us:  DAPS, the Dallas Area Philosophical Society, is an organization of local college Philosophy departments whose intention is to move the spirit of philosophy from the halls of academia to the realities of the community.  The purpose is to engage professors, students and the community in the process of philosophical inquiry on topics of political, social and economic interest.  It is meant to be a sphere of rational discourse from varied perspectives as an antidote to the increasingly divisive, ideological and emotional polemics which typifies much current public debate.

What we do:  DAPS, in addition to trying to provide a nexus where professional, amateur and student philosophers can meet, organizes annual panel discussions on various topics in an attempt to provide rational analysis from a variety of perspectives.  The panels include not only academics, but community members, experts in related fields and students.
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