February 12: Waide Center Seminar | "Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene"

J. Baird Callicott 

Date: Wednesday, February 12^th

Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Title: “Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene”

Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/95197924493

Event will be held remotely, via Zoom, and is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members.

About the Speaker: J. Baird Callicott is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and former Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. Calicott held the position of Professor of Philosophy and Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1969 to 1995, where he taught the world’s first course in environmental ethics in 1971. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Vice President and President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. Other distinguished positions include visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Hawaii. He is author of eighteen books, editor of fifteen additional volumes, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. He is perhaps best known as the leading contemporary exponent of Aldo Leopold’s land ethics and has recently explored an Aldo Leopold Earth ethic in response to global climate change. 

About the series: The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. The seminars aim to provide speakers with feedback on their current research projects. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso, for more information.