This clear, learner-friendly text helps today's students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. The text covers all the basics of critical thinking, beginning where students are, not where we think they should be. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting in an exceptionally versatile text.

The director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life presents a series of essays on the philosophical implications of the Narnia series, exploring Lewis's perspectives on gender, the Nietzschean 'master morality' among Narnia's villains, and much more. Original.

The chairman of the philosophy department at King's College culls dozens of life lessons from the pages of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic tale, finding much to mull over in the author's treatment of issues of happiness, morality, and the search for ultimate truth.

Product Description: This book is the first full-length study by a professional philosopher of one of the most important constitutional controversies of our time: whether courts, in deciding constitutional cases, must adhere to the 'original intent' of the framers.