John Martin Fischer

Our Stories

Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780199767236
• ISBN-10: 0199767238
• Artikelnr.: 32189796

Autorenporträt

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of My Way and the co-editor of Introduction to Philosophy, Fifth Edition.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction, "Meaning in Life and Death: Our Stories"
2: "Why is Death Bad?"
3 C "Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of4: "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"