Michael R Byron

Research Ethics: Text and Readings

Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason

Michael Byron: Witte De With, Centrum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Rotterdam, 12 Oktober-24 November 1991 .. Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Een Serie Van 100 Tekeningen 1989-1991, 6 Oktober-17 No

Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy, Climate and Globalization

Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy, Climate and Globalization

Michael Byr (composer)

Michael Byron (born September 7, 1953) is an American composer and editor of contemporary music anthologies. The trajectory of Byron's musical life...

Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy, Climate and Globalization

Ready for a dramatic lifestyle change? If mankind continues to deplete Earth's bounteous resources at an accelerating pace, drastic changes are inevitable. Exploring the links between politics and economics, globalization, peak oil, global warming, and disastrous weather, the author shows how human ...

Research Ethics Text and Readings

A comprehensive introduction to ethical questions based on the premise that ethical research is better research. The text explores the ethical complexities of research in order to enhance researchers existing capacities of ethical reflection and decision making. Examines all aspects of the resear...

Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason

This collection of essays explores two competing views of practical rationality. How do we think about what we plan to do? One dominant answer is that we select the best possible option available. However, a growing number of philosophers would offer a different reply. Since we are not equipped to m...

The Path Through Infinity’s Rainbow: Your Guide to Personal Survival and Spiritual Transformation in a World Gone Mad

Today's energy, climate, and government crises are inarguably massive and mounting. Our civilization, our very existence, is threatened. It would be easy to despair, admits author and political scientist Michael P. Byron. But instead he offers the insight, tools, and inspiration we need to create th...

Submission and Subjection in Leviathan: Good Subjects in the Hobbesian Commonwealth

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes famously characterizes the state of nature as a predicament in which life is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' The only means of escape from that dire condition is to found the commonwealth, with its notorious sovereign. Hobbes invests the sovereign with virtua...