Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy (Philosophy Series) - Hardcover

Feinberg, Joel (ed)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534197221 ISBN 13: 9780534197223

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, 1992

Synopsis

The eighth edition of this introductory textbook anthology presents historic selections, recent material, and opposing points of view on the problems basic to philosophy: knowledge, mind, free will, determinism, responsibility, ethics and God. The text includes whole or substantial portions of classic works, balanced by views of contemporary writers (some of which have been specially commissioned for the book). All major points of view are represented.

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About the Author

Joel Feinberg (Professor Emeritus, late of University of Arizona) was widely recognized as one of America's leading political and social philosophers. Acclaimed both for his ground-breaking scholarship and his exemplary teaching skills, Feinberg published widely on topics such as individual rights, legal theory, capital punishment, the treatment of the mentally ill, civil disobedience, and environmental ethics. Before joining the University of Arizona faculty, he taught at Brown, Princeton, and Rockefeller universities. Feinberg was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1987-88 to work in Japan and served as chairman of the National Board of Officers in the American Philosophical Association in the mid-1980s. Some of the royalties from Reason and Responsibility have been used to establish the Regents Professor Joel Feinberg Dissertation Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0534197221
• ISBN 13: 9780534197223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 607