CALLICOTT, J(ohn) Baird

CALLICOTT, J(ohn) Baird. American, b. 1941. Genres: Philosophy, Literary criticism and history. Career: Syracuse University, Ithaca, NY, lecturer in philosophy, 1965-66; Memphis State University, TN, instructor in philosophy, 1966-69; University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, assistant professor, 1969-74, associate professor, 1974-82, professor of philosophy, 1982-95, director of environmental studies program, 1980-86, professor of natural resources, 1984-95; University of North Texas, professor of philosophy and religion studies, 1995-. Visiting professor, University of Florida, 1983, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988, and University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1988. Institute for Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, fellow, 1984; University of California, Berkeley, research associate, 1987-90, visiting scholar, 1990-91. Publications: (with T.W. Overholt) Clothed-in-Fur and Other Tales, 1982; In Defense of the Land Ethic (essays), 1989; Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics, 1994; Beyond the Land Ethic, 1999. EDITOR: (and contrib.) Companion to A Sand County Almanac (essays), 1987; (with R.T. Ames, and contrib.) Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought (essays), 1989; (with S.L. Flader, and author of intro.) A. Leopold, The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays, 1991; (with others) Environmental Philosophy, 1993; (with F. duRocha) Earth Summit Ethics, 1996; (with M.P. Nelson) The Great New Wilderness Debate, 1998; (with E.T. Freyfogle) For the Health of the Land. Address: Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, U.S.A.