J. Baird Callicott

J. Baird Callicott is Regents Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies in the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of North Texas. From 1997-2000 he served the International Society for Environmental Ethics as president. He is author of Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback, In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy, American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study, and more than a hundred book chapters, journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews. He is editor or co-editor of Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays, Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays and Other Writings by Aldo Leopold; Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Theory of Environmental Education, Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology, and The Great New Wilderness Debate. He serves on a more than a dozen editorial boards of academic journals and university presses. Callicott's research proceeds on four major fronts: theoretical environmental ethics, land ethics, the philosophy of ecology and conservation, and comparative environmental philosophy.