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DESCRIPTION:The Facing the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Approaches works
 hop presents:\n\nNorthern White Rhinos: A Case Study of (Almost) Every Phi
 losophical/Ethical Issue in Conservation Today\n\nAbstract: Two females\, 
 Nadine and Fatu\, are the sole surviving Northern White Rhinos (NWR). The 
 subspecies is functionally extinct. Hope for NWR now lies in emerging repr
 oductive and genetic technologies. What are the rationales for existing an
 d conceivable recovery projects? This question raises almost every philoso
 phical/ethical issue facing conservation science today. Facing the challen
 ges presented by the Anthropocene\, NWR recovery is hard to justify via ma
 ny traditional paths (e.g.\, historical fidelity\, ecosystem health\, biod
 iversity). That does not mean\, however\, that there are no reasons for sa
 ving the NWR. I’ll sketch two that have more to do with building an Ark 
 for the future than with making the NWR a passenger on the Ark. Bio: Craig
  Callender is the Tata Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and a Founding
  Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. From 1996-
 2000\, he worked in the Department of Philosophy\, Logic & Scientific Meth
 od at the London School of Economics. From 2019-2022\, he sat on the Freed
 om and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Co
 uncil\, Paris. His main area of research and teaching is philosophy of sci
 ence\, ranging from the nature of time to various applied social and ethic
 al issues. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press\, 20
 17) won the 2018 Lakatos Award and the 2022 Suppes Prize.   RSVP Today. Th
 is Workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possib
 le by support from an anonymous donor\, former Fellows\, the Mellon Founda
 tion\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the McCoy Family Ce
 nter for Ethics in Society.
GEO:37.424631;-122.172061
LOCATION:Humanities Center\, Board Room
SUMMARY:Northern White Rhinos: A Case Study of (Almost) Every Philosophical
 /Ethical Issue in Conservation Today
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 e_study_of_almost_every_philosophicalethical_issue_in_conservation_today
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