Louis P. Pojman
Louis P. Pojman was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A man of extraordinary intellect and personal integrity, he thought deeply and wrote prolifically about the ethical challenges facing our world today and also actively participated in addressing these challenges. He was an anti-war and civil rights activist in the 1960s, and he and his wife Trudy have been active environmentalists and life-time members of the Sierra Club.
A philosopher of religion, Prof. Pojman held an M.A. in Religious Studies (1967) and a Ph.D. in Ethics (1972) from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. In 1969-71 he was a Fulbright Fellow and Kent Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and in 1971 a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 1977.
Prof. Pojman taught at Oxford University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas, the University of Mississippi (where he was Chair of Philosophy and Religion from 1987-1990) and BYU, and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and NYU and at Clare Hall, Cambridge University (2004-2005). In 1995 he accepted an offer to become Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prof. Pojman has won a number of research and teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1988), the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities at the University of Mississippi (1994) and the U. S. Military Academy Outstanding Scholar/Teacher Award (1999). He served as a member of the International Board of Consultants of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum from 2003-2005.
He published 92 articles and authored or edited 38 books, including The Logic of Subjectivity (1984); Religious Belief and the Will (1986); Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong (3rd ed., 1998), Global Environmental Ethics (1999), Global Political Philosophy (2003); The Death Penalty: For and Against, with Jeffrey Reiman (1998); and The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (2000). He has presented more than 100 papers at over 60 universities and conferences in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Books by Louis P. Pojman:
1. The Logic of Subjectivity: A Critique of Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion (University of Alabama Press, 1984)
2. Religious Belief and the Will (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986)
3. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Wadsworth Publishing Company, August, 1986)
4. Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Wadsworth Publishing Company, August, 1988)
5. Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, textbook anthology (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1989)
6. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1989).
7. Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Wadsworth Publishing Company 1990)
8. Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time (Jones and Bartlett, March, 1992)
9. Life and Death: A Reader (Jones and Bartlett, 1992)
10. Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, a textbook anthology, (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992)
11. The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992)
12. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993)
13. Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1993)
14. Moral Philosophy: A Reader (Hackett Publishing Company, 1994)
15. Environmental Ethics: A Readings in Theory and Application (Jones and Bartlett, 1994)
16. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994)
17. Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994)
18. The Abortion Controversy: A Reader, ed. with Francis J. Beckwith (Jones and Bartlett, 1994)
19. What Can We Know? An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994)
20. Philosophy: The Traditions (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997).
21. Equality: A Reader, ed. with Robert Westmoreland (Oxford University Press, 1996).
22. Philosophy: The Pursuit of Wisdom (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997)
23. Environmental Ethics (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998).
24. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong (3rd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998)
25. Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings (3rd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998)
26. Philosophy: The Classics (two volumes) (Oxford University Press, 1997)
27. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (3rd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998)
28. Philosophy: The Quest for Truth (4th ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998)
29. Moral Philosophy: A Reader (2nd ed., Hackett Publishing Company, 1998)
30. Theory of Knowledge (2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998)
31. The Death Penalty: For and Against (Point-Counterpoint Series), joint-authored with Jeffrey Reiman (Rowman & Littlefield, Jan.1998)
32. Desert: A Reader, with Owen McLeod, (Oxford University Press, 1998)
33. Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion (International Scholar's press, 1999)
34. Global Environmental Ethics (Mayfield Publishing Co., 1999)
35. The Moral Life: Philosophy and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1999)
36. Philosophy of Religion (McGraw-Hill, 2000)
37. Modern and Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology (McGraw-Hill, 2001)
38. Global Political Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 2002)