Implementing a selection of diverse and historically important essays from classic, modern and contemporary philosophers Fred Felman introduces students to the essential ideas and philosophical issues of freedom and determinism, mind-body dualism or the nature of persons (philosophical anthropology) , the existence of God and the problem of evil (philosophical theology), and epistemology (the philosophical study of knowledge)
About the Author
Fred Feldman is an American philosopher who specializes in ethical theory. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. His research primarily focuses on normative ethics, metaethics, the nature of happiness, and justice. He has long been fascinated by philosophical problems about the nature and value of death. He received a NEH research fellowship for the academic year of 2008/09.
