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.

• Collects classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics
  
• Answers some of the most puzzling questions about our world and our place in it
  
• Covers an unparalleled range of topics
  
• Now includes a new section on existence and reality, expanded discussions on many classic issues,...

This book contains a collection of the essential readings treating both classic and contemporary issues in philosophy of religion.

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.

• Presents students with a unique focus on three main challenges to ethics: feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism
• Pedagogical focus on the 'big questions' motivates student interest
• Collects readings on all key traditional theoretical and practical questions in ethics

This ambitious philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorising on social identity.

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.

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.

Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s.

• Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics
• Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field
• Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by...

Through a series of multidisciplinary readings, Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of Western intellectual tradition and traces the development of theory since the 1970s.

• Includes an extended introduction that provides an historical and thematic introduction to the field of environmental ethics
• Features a selection of brief original essays on why to study environmental ethics by leaders in the field
• Contextualizes environmental ethics within the history of the Western intellectual tradition by...