Byron Williston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Byron Williston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Byron |
| FAMILY NAME | Williston |
| SIGNATURE | WILLISTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9003-2502 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ethics of Climate Change
Philosophy and the Climate Crisis
Matthias Fritsch
Moral progress and Canada's climate failure
In a recent letter to Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, British columnist and climate change gadfly George Monbiot pleaded with Canada to clean up its greenhouse gas emissions act. The letter appeared just a week before the Copenhagen climate conference. In it, Monbiot alleged that Canada's newly acquired status as oil superpower threatens to ‘brutalize’ the country, as it has other oil-rich countries (Monbiot, G. 2009 Monbiot, G. …
Reasons for Action and the Motivational Gap
Descartes on Love and/as Error
Descartes on Love and/as Error Byron Williston But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow With more, not only be no quintessence, But mixed of all stuffs, paining soul, or sense, And of the sun his working vigour borrow, Love's not so pure, and abstract, as they use To say, which have no mistress but their Muse, But as all else, being elemented too, Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do.1 One of philosophy's most enduring questio…
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Descartes on Love and/as Error
Descartes on Love and/as Error Byron Williston But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow With more, not only be no quintessence, But mixed of all stuffs, paining soul, or sense, And of the sun his working vigour borrow, Love's not so pure, and abstract, as they use To say, which have no mistress but their Muse, But as all else, being elemented too, Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do.1 One of philosophy's most enduring questio…
Reasons for Action and the Motivational Gap
Moral progress and Canada's climate failure
In a recent letter to Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, British columnist and climate change gadfly George Monbiot pleaded with Canada to clean up its greenhouse gas emissions act. The letter appeared just a week before the Copenhagen climate conference. In it, Monbiot alleged that Canada's newly acquired status as oil superpower threatens to ‘brutalize’ the country, as it has other oil-rich countries (Monbiot, G. 2009 Monbiot, G. …
Matthias Fritsch
Philosophy and the Climate Crisis
Ethics of Climate Change
Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Changements (2 works) · Climat (2 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (2 works) · Climatic changes (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethics & Moral Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works)