Books in the Philosophy: The Big Questions series

aeo Offers all the current topics of liberatory scholarship. aeo Readings consist of scholarly, popular, autobiographical, and literary writings that engage issues in racial theory, social and political philosophy, and feminism.

Presents canonical and contemporary works in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and epistemology. This work discusses topics including knowledge, religion, freedom, morality and the meaning of life. It also presents non-traditional, feminist readings from a continental perspectives.

This text contains a collection of readings treating both classical and contemporary issues in philosophy of religion. The text includes a special section devoted to multi-cultural perspectives on contemporary philosophy of religion.

This extensively revised and expanded edition of van Inwagen and Zimmerman's popular collection of readings in metaphysics now features twenty-two additional selections, new sections on existence and reality, and an updated editorial commentary.

Includes new papers by distinguished authors. Extensive treatment of currently "hot" topics. Helpful suggestions concerning use with the most popular single-author texts. Covers a much wider range of topics than the competition.

Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present.

This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding.

This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding.

This text contains a collection of readings treating both classical and contemporary issues in philosophy of religion. The text includes a special section devoted to multi-cultural perspectives on contemporary philosophy of religion.

Presents canonical and contemporary works in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and epistemology. This title discusses topics that include knowledge, religion, freedom, morality, and the meaning of life. Together with traditional readings, it also presents non-traditional, feminist readings from a continental perspectives.

As with the first edition, Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian viewpoints are all well represented here, and this second edition features updated sections throughout-including eighteen new readings-and an entirely new section on multiculturalism.