Overview of Environmental Philosophy & Ethics

Abstract

J. Baird Callicott's research goes forward simultaneously on four main fronts: theoretical environmental ethics; comparative environmental ethics and philosophy; the philosophy of ecology and conservation policy; and biocomplexity in the environment and coupled natural–human systems. He is perhaps best known as the leading contemporary exponent of Aldo Leopold’s land ethic and is currently exploring an Aldo Leopold Earth ethic in response to global climate change. He taught the world’s first course in environmental ethics in 1971 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His teaching at UNT includes graduate and undergraduate courses in ancient Greek philosophy and ethical theory in addition to environmental philosophy.

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J. Baird Callicott

Visiting Scholar in Residence

Dr. J. Baird Callicott is a University Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Regents Professor of Philosophy, retired, at the University of North Texas (UNT). He taught the world’s first course in environmental ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1971.He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and author/editor of many books, as well as the author of dozens of journal articles, encyclopedia articles, and book chapters in environmental philosophy and ethics. His writings have been translated into French, Spanish, German...

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J. Baird Callicott

Visiting Scholar in Residence

Dr. J. Baird Callicott is a University Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Regents Professor of Philosophy, retired, at the University of North Texas (UNT). He taught the world’s first course in environmental ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1971.He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and author/editor of many books, as well as the author of dozens of journal articles, encyclopedia articles, and book chapters in environmental philosophy and ethics. His writings have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. Baird has served the UNT Department of Philosophy as chair, the International Society for Environmental Ethics as President, Yale University as Bioethicist-in-Residence, and SESYNC as Visiting Senior Research Scientist. He is a leading contemporary exponent of Aldo Leopold’s land ethic and has elaborated an Earth ethic, Thinking Like a Planet (Oxford University Press 2013), in response to climate change. Most recently, he returned to his roots in classical scholarship with Greek Natural Philosophy: The Presocratics and their Importance for Environmental Philosophy (Cognella 2018). At SESYNC, Baird led an interdisciplinary group focused on the art or practice of ecological restoration from the 1930s to the present and the science of restoration ecology from the 1990s to the present. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College and his master’s degree and PhD from Syracuse University.

External Links:
https://jbcallicott.weebly.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Baird_Callicott

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12:30 p.m. ET
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SESYNC – 1 Park Place Suite 300 Annapolis, MD 21401
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