Return to APA Newsletters IndexThe following appeared in Volume 97, Number 2 (Spring, 1998) of the APA Newsletters
International Society for Environmental Ethics
http://www.cep.unt.edu/ISEE.html
Site maintained by:
The Center for Environmental Philosophy
University of North Texas
and
The Department of Philosophy
Bowling Green State University
Reviewed by:
Gary VarnerThe International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) organizes sessions at philosophical and scientific conferences nationally and internationally and publishes a quarterly newsletter. This web site, maintained primarily by the Center for Environmental Philosophy (CEP) at the University of North Texas, includes information on officers and membership in the organization in addition to the Society's newsletters, a searchable bibliography, and the ISEE Syllabus Project.
The most useful links are those to the searchable bibliography and the Syllabus Project. The bibliography is massive and includes a lightning fast search engine, described in a previous review of the CEP site in this newsletter, Varner (1997). All issues of the ISEE newsletter are included on the site. These entries are full-text, including not only the bibliographic entries which are included in the bibliography, but also notes on national and international environmental issues, forthcoming and recently completed conferences, job opportunities, audio-visual aids, etc.
The Syllabus Project is maintained by Robert Hood at Bowling Green State University. The project's goal is to collect information from throughout the world about what courses are taught, by whom, in which colleges and universities, and using which essays and books. Complete course syllabi are submitted by instructors, who can add links to their own home pages or submit their syllabi via e-mail. By the end of 1997 there were 71 syllabi from 49 instructors at 35 schools, primarily in the United States.
Currently, syllabi can be viewed listed by course title, instructor, region, or school. The list by schools includes links to the relevant departmental web pages and notes whether the departments grant graduate degrees. The lists by course title, instructor, and region include links to the instructors' personal web pages. The lists by course title and region indicate whether the course is taught at the graduate or undergraduate level.
There is also a site-specific search engine which returns links to every syllabus containing the search string, with Boolean operators supported; a list of textbooks used, linked to reviews and bibliographic and ordering information from the on-line bookstore at amazon.com; and a list of recently added syllabi. And, since the Syllabus Project as seen on the web is the "front-end" for a computerized database (MS Access running on Windows NT linked to the internet via ethernet), customized searches could be supported in the future.
References
Gary Varner (1997), Review of "Environmental Ethics," http://www.cep.unt.edu/, Center for Environmental Philosophy, The University of North Texas, in The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 41-42.
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