John Martin Fischer

Our Stories

Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of essays by noted philosopher John Martin Fischer that seeks to show important connections between the metaphysics of death and free will. John Martin Fischer defends the commonsense views that death can be bad and immortal life can be good, and argues that in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780195374957
• ISBN-10: 0195374959
• Artikelnr.: 25560844

Autorenporträt

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction, "Meaning in Life and Death: Our Stories"
2: "Why is Death Bad?"
3: "Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of Experience"
4: "Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity"
5: "Earlier Birth and Later Death: Symmetry Through Thick and Thin"
6: "Why Immortality is Not So Bad"
7: "Epicureanism About Death and Immortality"
8: "Stories"
9: "Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of Narrative"
10: "Stories and the Meaning of Life"