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STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Texas-based educator and top editor of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy will speak Friday [Feb. 5] at Mississippi State University.
J. Baird Callicott will be featured during a 90-minute public program to begin at 4 p.m. in Colvard Student Union's Bill Foster Ballroom M. "From the Land Ethic to the Earth Ethic: Aldo Leopold in a Time of Climate Change" will be the title of his presentation.
The University of North Texas's Regents Professor of Philosophy and chair of philosophy and religion studies department, Callicott may best be known as the leading contemporary exponent of Aldo Leopold's land ethic.
Leopold (1887--1948) is regarded as the father of U.S. wildlife management. A lifelong hunter and fisherman, the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member helped develop the modern environmental ethics and wilderness conservation movements.
In addition to holding the ethics encyclopedia's co-editor-in-chief post, Callicott is a former president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics and Yale University's bioethicist-in-residence. [For more, visit www.eoearth.org/contributor/baird.callicott.]
His campus visit is organized by the Mississippi Philosophical Association and MSU's department of philosophy and religion.
For more information, contact Trisha Phillips at 662-325-8078 or trisha.phillips@msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.