This work draws in part on our published books and articles, including those we authored individually or jointly. All the material, however, has been reworked to provide a unified presentation of a position we have developed over many years.
Here are our sources:
Cahn, Steven M. A New Introduction to Philosophy. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Reprinted in 2004 by Wipf & Stock Publishers.
——. Education and the Democratic Ideal. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979. Reprinted in 2004 by Wipf & Stock Publishers.
——. God, Reason, and Religion. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/ Wadworth, 2006.
——. Puzzles & Perplexities. 2nd edition. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2007.
Vitrano, Christine. The Nature and Value of Happiness. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2014.
——. “The Happy Immoralist.” In A Teacher’s Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn, edited by Robert B. Talisse and Maureen Eckert, 149–53. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009.
——. “The Subjectivity of Happiness.”
Journal of Value Inquiry 44, no. 1 (2010): 47–54.
——. “Meaningful Lives.” Ratio 26, no. 1 (2013): 79–90.
——. “Meaningful Lives?” In Exploring Ethics, edited by Steven M. Cahn, 462–64. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Cahn, Steven M., and Christine Vitrano. Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
——. “Choosing the Experience Machine.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 20, no. 1 (2013): 52–58.
——. “Living Well.” Think 13 (Autumn 2014): 13–23.
The material from
God, Reason and Religion is copyright © 2006 by Wadsworth, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission.
www.cengage.com/permissions.
The selections from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures are reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1985 Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
We wish to express appreciation to Wendy Lochner, our editor at Columbia University Press, for her support and guidance. We also wish to thank assistant editor Christine Dunbar, manuscript editor Kathryn Jorge, and other members of the staff of the Press for their generous help.
We are especially grateful to Robert B. Talisse for his illuminating foreword, and deeply appreciate his kind words.
