Scott Cameron (1961-2016) earned the Ph.D. at Fordham University in 1996, studying with Merold Westphal. He was an early member of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP), served on the Executive Committee, and served as co-editor of Environmental Philosophy. A dedicated teacher and generous colleague, Prof. Cameron’s work in environmental philosophy was inspired by the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, a deep and expansive appreciation for the history of philosophy, a childhood in rural Canada, and his Christian faith.
Environmental Philosophy is soliciting papers that either (a) engage Professor Cameron’s work directly or (b) engage the topics that interested him, including environmental hermeneutics (especially in dialogue with Gadamer), critical theory, ecological restoration, and the philosophy of religion and ecology.
Recent and representative examples of Dr. Cameron’s work include: “Conceiving the Earth Itself as Our Garden,” in Old and New World Perspectives on Environmental Philosophy, Martin Drenthen and Josef Keleurtz, eds. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2014): 53-70; “Must Environmental Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel” in Interpreting Nature, F. Clingerman, M. Drenthen, B. Treanor, and D. Utsler eds. (NY: Fordham University Press, 2014) 102-120; “Can Cities be both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding Two Apparently Oxymoronic Aspirations” in The Natural City, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011) 36-49; “Socrates Outside Athens: Plato, the Phaedrus, and the Possibility of ‘Dialogue’ with Nature,” in Phenomenology 2010, Volume 5: Selected Essays from North America, Part 2, Lester Embree, Michael Barber, and Thomas J. Nenon eds. (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2010) 40-65; and, “Wilderness and the City: Not such a Long Drive After All,” Environmental Philosophy 3 (2006): 28-33.
Prospective papers should be approximately 6000 words in length; they should be formatted using footnotes, American spellings and punctuation, and following the Chicago Manual of Style. Questions or inquiries regarding this special issue should be sent to Prof. Brian Treanor at btreanor@lmu.edu. Actual submissions should include a 250 word abstract and must be formatted for blind review, with the author’s identifying information (name, institutional affiliation, paper title, etc.) included in the body of an email sent to casassa@lmu.edu. The deadline for receipt of submissions is July 15, 2017.