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J. Baird Callicott is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States and specializes in environmental science. Their research spans various interdisciplinary subfields, including sociology and political science, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, history and philosophy of science, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their scholarly work primarily addresses topics related to religion, ecology, and ethics, environmental philosophy and ethics, climate change and geoengineering, climate change and health impacts, health and conflict studies, environmental and cultural studies in Latin America and beyond, as well as plant and animal studies.

Callicott has published several papers focusing on these themes, among which are:

  • The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic(s), 2021, published in Ethics Policy & Environment
  • Three project ideas to fill research gaps in Aldo-Leopold scholarship, 2022, published in Socio-Ecological Practice Research
  • "Odyssey" complements "A Biotic View of Land" to bolster the case for a more prominent place for Leopold, 2022, published in Socio-Ecological Practice Research
  • The Topos of Mu and the Predicative Self, 2023, published in Dialogue and Universalism

Callicott's frequent coauthors include Warwick Anderson, Jakelin Troy, Tamara Lucas, Anthony Capon, and Paul A. Komesaroff, with collaboration contributing to the diversity of research topics.

Their publications appear regularly in journals such as Socio-Ecological Practice Research, Ethics Policy & Environment, The Lancet, Dialogue and Universalism, and The Harvard Review of Philosophy, demonstrating a consistent engagement with both environmental ethics and interdisciplinary scholarly discourse.

Best Publications

  • In defense of the land ethic: essays in environmental philosophy

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback

    J. Baird Callicott

  • The Great New Wilderness Debate

    J. Baird Callicott;Michael P. Nelson

  • Committing to ecological restoration

    Katharine Suding;Eric Higgs;Margaret Palmer;J. Baird Callicott

  • Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Current Normative Concepts in Conservation

    J. Baird Callicott;Larry B. Crowder;Karen Mumford

  • In defense of the land ethic

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Non-Anthropocentric Value Theory and Environmental Ethics

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Committing to ecological restoration: Efforts around the globe need legal and policy clarification

    Kathering Suding;Eric Higgs;Margaret Palmer;J. Baird Callicott

  • Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Ecological Sustainability as a Conservation Concept

    J. Baird Callicott;Karen Mumford

  • Intrinsic Value, Quantum Theory, and Environmental Ethics

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Companion to a Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology

    Michael E. Zimmerman;J. Baird Callicott

  • Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

    J. Baird Callicott;Roger T. Ames

  • Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas

    Ricardo Rozzi;Juan J. Armesto;Julio R. Gutiérrez;Francisca Massardo

  • The Case against Moral Pluralism

    J. Baird Callicott

  • Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes toward Nature: An Overview

    J. Baird Callicott

  • The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

    Aldo Leopold;J. Baird Callicott;Susan L. Flader

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
Luna Bergere Leopold
Luna Bergere Leopold University of California, Berkeley

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