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Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Office: 319 Shatzel Hall
Office Phone: (419) 372-7142
email: dschere@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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Professor Scherer joined the philosophy faculty in 1967, having previously taught at Hobart College. In 1999-2000, he visited
at Santa Clara University, where he consulted with environmental studies faculty on how to incorporate ethics within the scope
of their research, whatever their disciplinary base. Emeritus since 2003, he continues to teach courses in environmental philosophy,
with particular interests in the social aspects of ecological restoration, the ethics of energy use, and the relationships
between sustainability, the specialization of labor and negative externalities.
The vice-president of Green Energy Ohio, Professor Scherer consults on enviromental developing concerns, including approaches to greening industry, park uses, urban
restoration, private-public partnerships and wind and solar energy development. Believing that his work with students should
facilitate the students in achieving their career goals, Professor Scherer continues to welcome students with interests related
to his work.
Three former students are:
- exploring relationships between environmental and medical ethics with a focus on AIDS and environmental health;
- using her coordinate MFA to raise artistic sensibilities to the normative character of human impact on the natural environment;
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- using her coordinate MS in Environmental Management to research and propose strategies for managing species of concern.
Three current students are
- developing the concept of moral progress in order to show the morally progressive character of Aldo Leopold's land ethic;
- assessing the justifiability of terrorism by examining the strategic environment within which terrorism exists; and
- developing a coordination between environmental scientists, the local community and local industries to restore two degraded
creeks.
Professor Scherer's recent publications include: Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics (Temple, 1990), "Between Theory and Practice: Some Thoughts on Restoration," Restoration and Management Notes, 1994, "Ethics of Sustainable Energy," Encyclopedia of Energy Technology and the Environment (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995), and "Evolution, Human Living and the Practice of Ecological Restoration" Environmental Ethics, 1995, We Never Aimed for Blight and Our Greener Ways, (California Academic Press, 2003). In Two Paths Toward Peace, co-authored with James Child (Temple, 1991), he develops a personal teleological pacifism presented in dialectic with Just
War views.
One of Professor Scherer's websites, www.greenerways.org, presents case studies that exhibit environmental successes where one might expect degradation. The other, www.bgsu.edu/dept/phil/courses/phil332, presents and illustrates a conceptual typology for understanding environmental problems.
Department of Philosophy
305 Shatzel Hall,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, OH 43403.
Phone: 419-372-2117
Fax: 419-372-8191
Email: mdeluca@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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