Michael Charles Tobias earned his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness at the University of California-Santa Cruz, specializing in global ecological ethics and the interdisciplinary humanities. He has conducted field research in over 90 countries, producing a wide-ranging, body of work that embraces the history of science, aesthetics, anthrozoology, comparative literature, philosophy, and natural history in the context of a multitude of current and potential-future scientific, geo-political, economic, and social scientific scenarios. Tobias has been on the faculties of such colleges and universities as Dartmouth, the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque and Georgia College & State University. For 18 years Tobias has been President of the Dancing Star Foundation (www.dancingstarfoundation.org; www.dancingstarnews.com). The Theoretical Individual is Tobias’ 4th book with Springer.
Jane Gray Morrison, Executive Vice President of the Dancing Star Foundation for 18 years, has written and co-edited dozens of books, including Sanctuary: Global Oases of Innocence (www.sanctuary-thebook.org), Donkey: The Mystique of Equus Asinus (Council Oak Books), Why Life Matters (Springer) and Anthrozoology (Springer). In addition, Morrison has written, produced and/or directed numerous major film documentaries and docudramas that have been broadcast throughout the world. Among them are the ten-hour series, “Voice of the Planet” (TBS), “A Parliament of Souls” (PBS), “No Vacancy” (PBS), “A Day in the Life of Ireland” (PBS), “Mad Cowboy” (PBS) and “Hotspots” (www.hotspots-thefilm.com, PBS). A Goodwill Ambassador to Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park and early advocate for an Antarctic World Park (“Antarctica: The Last Continent” [PBS]), Ms. Morrison has worked to save endangered species and habitat on every continent. Those efforts have included the creation