Blues - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking Deep About Feeling Low

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Jesse R. Steinberg is an assistant professor of philosophy and the director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.  He has been a visiting professor at Victoria University in New Zealand at the University of California at Riverside and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published a number of articles on topics including philosophy of mind metaphysics philosophy of religion and ethics. Abrol Fairweather is an instructor at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. He has published in the area of Virtue Epistemology and sustains interests in philosophy of mind metaphysics and philosophy of language. He has contributed to popular culture volumes on Facebook and Dexter. The guitar vocals and lyrics of Lightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt are major influences. Series editor: Fritz Allhoff is an associate professor in the philosophy department at Western Michigan University as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell 2007) Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams Wiley 2009) and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe Wiley-Blackwell 2007).  His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics ethical theory and the history and philosophy of science.