Questions That Matter: An Invitation to Philosophy, Shorter Version - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072975016 ISBN 13: 9780072975017

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2005

Synopsis

This accessible text-reader includes extensive student pedagogy--running summaries, high-interest boxes, biographies, epigrams, a philosophical dictionary, and a timeline/map. The new edition offers a new chapter on virtue ethics, new cases and questions from environmental and biomedical ethics, a new chapter on communitarian and feminist critiques of contemporary liberalism, and more!

About this title

About the Author:

JON JENSEN received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was a student of Professor Miller. While his philosophical interests vary widely, his research and publications focus on environmental philosophy. Jensen has taught at the University of Colorado, Green Mountain College, and now at Luther College, his alma mater. In addition to teaching philosophy, he is an active member of Luther’s Environmental Studies program and enjoys canoeing, bicycling, backpacking, and gardening.

Ed L. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California and a Doctorate of Theology from the University of Basel, Switzerland. He has taught for the last thirty years at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to being a member of the philosophy faculty, he also teaches for the Religious Studies Department and is Director of the Theology Forum. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Philosophers, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0072975016
• ISBN 13: 9780072975017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: L. Miller, Jon Jensen