POJMAN, Louis P. 1935-

PERSONAL: Born April 22, 1935, in Chicago, IL; son of Louis A. (a tool and die maker) and Helen (Slodicek) Pojman; married Gertrude Berggraaff, December 29, 1962; children: Ruth Freedom, Paul Theodore. Ethnicity: "Czech-German." Education: Union Theological Seminary, Ph.D., 1972; Oxford University, D.Phil., 1977. Politics: "Independent-Green." Religion: Unitarian-Universalist. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, reading, environmentalism.

ADDRESSES: Home—32 Walnut Ave., Highland Falls, NY 10928. Offıce—U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Minister of religion in New York, NY, 1962-67; University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, visiting assistant professor, 1977-79; University of Texas—Dallas, Dallas, TX, assistant professor, 1979-84; University of Mississippi, Oxford, professor, 1984-95; U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, professor, 1995—.

MEMBER: Sierra Club, Appalachian Mountain Club.

WRITINGS:

The Logic of Subjectivity: A Critique of Kierkegaard'sPhilosophy of Religion, University of Alabama Press (University, AL), 1984.

Religious Belief and the Will, Routledge & Kegan Paul (New York, NY), 1986.

Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1986, 4th edition, 2003.

Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1988, 4th edition, 2001.

Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (textbook anthology), Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1989, 5th edition, 2002.

Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1989, 4th edition, 2001.

Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1990.

Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time, Jones & Bartlett (Sudbury, MA), 1992, 2nd edition, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1999.

Life and Death: A Reader, Jones & Bartlett (Sudbury, MA), 1992, 2nd edition, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1999.

The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1992, 3rd edition, 2003.

Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1993, 4th edition, 2003.

Moral Philosophy: A Reader, Hackett Publishing (Indianapolis, IN), 1994.

Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, Jones & Bartlett (Sudbury, MA), 1994, 3rd edition, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 2000.

(Editor, with Francis J. Beckwith) The AbortionControversy: A Reader, Jones & Bartlett (Sudbury, MA), 1994.

What Can We Know? An Introduction to the Theory ofKnowledge, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1994, 2nd edition, 2000.

Philosophy: The Traditions, Wadsworth Group (Belmont, CA), 1997.

(Editor, with Robert Westmoreland) Equality: AReader, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1996.

Philosophy: The Classics, two volumes, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997, 2nd edition, 2002.

(With Jeffrey Reiman) The Death Penalty: For andAgainst, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1998.

(Editor, with Owen McLeod) What Do We Deserve?, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1998.

Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion, International Scholars Press (Bethesda, MD), 1999.

Global Environmental Ethics, Mayfield Publishing (Palo Alto, CA), 1999.

The Moral Life, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1999.

Philosophy of Religion, Mayfield Publishing (Palo Alto, CA), 2000.

Modern and Contemporary Political Philosophy, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 2001.

Global Political Philosophy, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A book on justice, for Prentice-Hall (Tappan, NJ); research on "cosmopolitan ethics."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Ethics, April, 1999, review of The Death Penalty: For and Against, p. 703; October, 2000, review of What Do We Deserve?, p. 208.

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, winter, 1999, Leigh B. Bienen, review of The Death Penalty, p. 752.