TY - BOOK AU - Benjamin,Martin TI - Philosophy & this actual world: an introduction to practical philosophical inquiry SN - 9780742513990 AV - B72 .B45 2003 U1 - 100 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Philosophy KW - Introductions N1 - "An introduction to practical philosophical inquiry" -- Cover; A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003; Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-213) and index N2 - Publisher description: ... Presupposing little or no formal background, Philosophy & This Actual World addresses general questions of knowledge, reality, mind, will, and ethics, as well as more specific questions about moral pluralism, assisted suicide, the nature of death, and life's meaning. At the same time, it incorporates the advances of academic philosophers like Wittgenstein, Rorty, Putnam, and Rawls, making it equally as valuable to the scholar as to the philosophically uninitiated ER -