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Baird Callicott took some time this spring to answer some of Purlieu's questions regarding philosophical divisiveness, environmental philosophy, and the role of the natural sciences in the 21st century.

***J. Baird Callicott is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and formerly Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, taught the world's first course in environmental ethics in 1971 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and is considered a uniquely foundational thinker within environmental philosophy and ethics.