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    The Anthropocene Project: Virtue in the Age of Climate Change.Byron Williston - 2015 - Oxford University Press UK.
    The recent Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested that continuing inaction on climate change presents a significant threat to social stability. This book examines the reasons for the inaction highlighted by the IPCC and suggests the normative bases for overcoming it.
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  2. Climate Change and Radical Hope.Byron Williston - 2012 - Ethics and the Environment 17 (2):165-186.
    In The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock provides a memorable description of what the future might hold for us in a world severely blighted by climate change. In this scenario the human population has been pushed to the high Northern latitudes: Meanwhile in the hot arid world survivors gather for the journey to the new Arctic centres of civilization; I see them in the desert as the dawn breaks and the sun throws its piercing gaze across the horizon at the (...)
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    The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction.Byron Williston - 2018 - Routledge.
    The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the greatest threat now facing humanity. Williston addresses important questions such as: Has humanity entered the Anthropocene? Is climate change primarily an ethical issue? Does climate change represent a moral wrong? What are the impacts of climate change? What are the main causes of political inaction? What is the argument for climate change denial? What are intragenerational justice and intergenerational justice? To what extent is (...)
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    Passion and virtue in Descartes.Byron Williston & André Gombay (eds.) - 2003 - Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books.
    Anglophone philosophers have on the whole overlooked much of the last ten years or so of Descartes' philosophical career. In the period following publication of the Meditations, however, Descartes was extremely active in attempting to develop a comprehensive ethics, rooted in his analysis of human passions. His work in this area grew out of a lengthy correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and was later systematically presented in the Passions of the Soul. The present volume is the first collection of (...)
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    Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present.Byron Williston - 2020 - New York: Routledge.
    This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times. This book explores five past crises, each involving a unique form of collective trauma. These events-war, occupation, exile, scientific revolution and political revolution-inspired the philosophers to remake the whole world in thought, to (...)
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    Akrasia and the passions in Descartes.Byron Williston - 1999 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1):33 – 55.
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    The Question Concerning Geo-Engineering.Byron Williston - 2017 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21 (2/3):199-221.
    The Anthropocene, as we encounter it now, is the age in which we can no longer avoid postnaturalism, that is, a view of the ‘environment’ as largely ‘built.’ This means that we exist in a highly technologically mediated relationship to the rest of the earth system. But because the Anthropocene has barely emerged this time is best thought of as a transition phase between two epochs, i.e., it is ‘the end-Holocene.’ The end-Holocene is essentially a period of ecological crisis, the (...)
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  8. The Importance of Self-Forgiveness.Byron Williston - 2012 - American Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1):67 - 80.
    To self-forgive is to foreswear specific self-directed negative attitudes, attitudes that result from an agent’s recognition of his own moral failing. What does this foreswearing process involve? When is it justified? And what is the relation between self-forgiveness and interpersonal forgiveness? I will make two arguments in an attempt to answer these questions. First, self-forgiveness essentially involves a process of shaming whose ultimate goal is restoration of the wrongdoer’s goodness. Second, if a wrongdoer is to merit the forgiveness of his (...)
     
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    Descartes on Love and/as Error.Byron Williston - 1997 - Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (3):429-444.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Descartes on Love and/as ErrorByron WillistonBut 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.1One (...)
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  10. The Sublime Anthropocene.Byron Williston - 2016 - Environmental Philosophy 13 (2):155-174.
    In the Anthropocene, humanity has been forced to a self-critical reflection on its place in the natural order. A neglected tool for understanding this is the sublime. Sublime experience opens us up to encounters with ‘formless’ nature at the same time as we recognize the inevitability of imprinting our purposes on nature. In other words, it is constituted by just the sort of self-critical stance towards our place in nature that I identify as the hallmark of the Anthropocene ‘collision’ between (...)
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  11. Situating Environmental Philosophy in Canada.C. Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis & Byron Williston - 2019 - In C. Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis & Byron Williston (eds.), Canadian Environmental Philosophy. Mcgill-Queen's University Press.
    The volume includes topics from political philosophy and normative ethics on the one hand to philosophy of science and the philosophical underpinnings of water management policy on the other. It contains reflections on ecological nationalism, the legacy of Grey Owl, the meaning of ‘outside’ to Canadians, the paradigm shift from mechanism to ecology in our understanding of nature, the meaning of the concept of the Anthropocene, the importance of humans self-identifying as ‘earthlings’, the challenges of biodiversity protection and the status (...)
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    Reasons for Action and the Motivational Gap.Byron Williston - 2005 - Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (3-4):309-324.
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    Blaming Agents in Moral Dilemmas.Byron Williston - 2006 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (5):563-576.
    Some philosophers – notably Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum and Ruth Barcan Marcus – argue that agents in moral dilemmas are blameworthy whatever they do. I begin by uncovering the connection these philosophers are presupposing between the agent’s judgement of wrongdoing and her tendency to self-blame. Next, I argue that while dilemmatic choosers cannot help but see themselves as wrongdoers, they both can and should divorce this judgement from an ascription of self-blame. As I argue, dilemmatic choosers are morally sui generis (...)
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  14. Canadian Environmental Philosophy.C. Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis & Byron Williston (eds.) - 2019 - Mcgill-Queen's University Press.
    Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective. The essays cover various subjects, including ecological nationalism, the legacy of Grey Owl, the meaning of “outside” to Canadians, the paradigm shift from mechanism to ecology in our understanding of nature, the meaning and significance of the Anthropocene, the challenges of biodiversity protection in Canada, the conservation status of crossbred species in the age of climate change, (...)
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  15. Andrew Cutrofello, The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 1995 - Philosophy in Review 15 (6):389-391.
     
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    A Tapestry of Concealments.Byron Williston - 2018 - Environmental Philosophy 15 (2):237-254.
    The Good Anthropocene is a position taken up by a diverse collection of writers, social scientists, and philosophers. Their claim is that the Anthropocene should be embraced as a more or less positive development in the history of our species. This paper pushes back against the narrative of the Good Anthropocene. But rather than confront its advocates directly, I will come at the contest obliquely. I present a Heideggerian interpretation of Annie Proulx’s Barkskins, a multi-generational novel centered on the deforestation (...)
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  17. Complete Nihilism.Byron Williston - 2001 - In John Richardson & Brian Leiter (eds.), Nietzsche. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 4--1.
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    “Complete Nihilism” in Nietzsche.Byron Williston - 2001 - Philosophy Today 45 (4):357-369.
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  19. dreams And Freedom.Byron Williston - 2002 - Florida Philosophical Review 2 (1):46-52.
  20. David Goicoechea, ed., The Nature and Pursuit of Love: The Philosophy of Irving Singer Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 1995 - Philosophy in Review 15 (2):105-106.
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    Daniel Innerarity , The Future and its Enemies: In Defense of Political Hope . Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 2014 - Philosophy in Review 34 (1-2):46-48.
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    Environmental Ethics for Canadians.Byron Williston (ed.) - 2015 - Oxford University Press Canada.
    Designed for second- and third-year university and college courses on environmental ethics or philosophy and the environment, Environmental Ethics for Canadians 2e is a comprehensive introduction to the core ethical questions shaping contemporary environmental debates.
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    Is Descartes the Archinternalist?Byron Williston - 2004 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 21 (4):357 - 375.
  24. Joyce Jenkins, Jennifer Whiting and Christopher Williams, eds., Persons and Passions: Essays in Honour of Annette Baier Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26 (5):358-360.
     
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    Matthias Fritsch: Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction and Intergenerational Justice.Byron Williston - 2019 - Environmental Ethics 41 (1):89-92.
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    Moral progress and Canada's climate failure.Byron Williston - 2011 - Journal of Global Ethics 7 (2):149 - 160.
    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. Please, Canada, clean up your act, The Globe and Mail, November 30, A15). (...)
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  27. Peter Sedgwick, Descartes to Derrida: An Introduction to European Philosophy Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 2002 - Philosophy in Review 22 (2):147-149.
     
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    Self-Deception and the Ethics of Belief: Locke’s Critique of Enthusiasm.Byron Williston - 2002 - Philo 5 (1):62-83.
    Locke’s critique of enthusiastic religion is an attempt to undermine a form of supernaturalist belief. In this paper, I argue for a novel interpretation of that critique. By opening up a middle path between the views of John Passmore and Michael Ayers, I show that Locke is accusing the enthusiast of being a self-deceived believer. First, I demonstrate the manner in which a theory of self-deception squares with Locke’s intellectualist epistemology. Second, I argue that Locke thinks he can show that (...)
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  29. (1 other version)Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23 (2):107-110.
     
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    The Epistemic Problem of Cartesian Passions.Byron Williston - 2003 - International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (3):309-332.
    For Descartes, the passions are the key to the good life. But he is also wary of the extent to which they may lead us astray. As I argue, there is reason to be skeptical that Descartes himself provides a satisfying resolution of this tension in the Passions of the Soul. The problem concerns our ability to interpret and work through intra-subjective passional conflicts. Descartes seems almost obsessed with the problem of such conflicts in this text. What he needs to (...)
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  31. Tad M. Schmaltz, Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23 (4):282-284.
     
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  32. (1 other version)William R. Reddy, The Navigation of Emotion Reviewed by.Byron Williston - 2002 - Philosophy in Review 22 (5):358-360.
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    Alienation and nature in environmental philosophy Simon Hailwood cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2015; IX + 266 pp. $113.95. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2018 - Dialogue 57 (4):938-940.
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    Defiant earth: The fate of humans in the anthropocene Clive Hamilton cambridge: Polity press,2017, XIV + 185 pp. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2018 - Dialogue 57 (4):897-899.
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    Dwelling in the Age of Climate Change: The Ethics of Adaptation, Elaine Kelly (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), 224 pp., cloth $110, paperback $29.95. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2020 - Ethics and International Affairs 34 (2):257-259.
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    Descartes’s Meditations. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2006 - Dialogue 45 (1):203-205.
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    Descartes’s Meditations: An Introduction. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2006 - Dialogue 45 (1):203.
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    Enlightenment shadowsgenevieve Lloyd oxford: Oxford university press, 2013. V + 185 pp. £30.00. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2014 - Dialogue 53 (2):356-358.
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  39. Gary Fuller, Robert Stecker and John P. Wright, eds., John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding In Focus Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2001 - Philosophy in Review 21 (4):259-261.
     
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    Humanism with a Human Face: Intimacy and the Enlightenment Howard B. Radest Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, xi + 212 pp., $59.95. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 1998 - Dialogue 37 (4):849-.
    In The Devil and Secular Humanism Howard Radest explored the enlightenment roots of humanism; in this book he moves on humanism’s “personal and transcendental” features. As he sees it, contemporary humanism faces two enemies. There is, first, the “shadow enlightenment.” Radest describes this as that version of enlightenment principles with which humanists operate today, but which distorts the original meaning of those principles. Thus, for example, in place of the revolutionary idea of the moral equivalence of all persons, we are (...)
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    Integrity and the virtues of reason: Living a convincing lifegreg scherkoske cambridge university press, 2013; V + 213 pp. $99.00. [REVIEW]Byron Williston - 2014 - Dialogue 53 (3):577-579.
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