Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

Herausgegeben von Bradley, Ben; Feldman, Fred; Johansson, Jens

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: OUP USA / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9780190271459
• ISBN-10: 0190271450
• Artikelnr.: 43556211

Autorenporträt

Ben Bradley is Allan and Anita Sutton Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Fred Feldman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jens Johannson is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala Universitet.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Philosophy of Death
Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, Jens Johansson
1. When Do Things Die?
Cody Gilmore
2. Death and the Disintegration of Personality
Fred Feldman
3. The Person and the Corpse
Eric Olson
4. Personal Identity and the Survival of Death
Dean Zimmerman
5. The Evil of Death: What Can Metaphysics Contribute?
Theodore Sider
6. Death and Eternal Recurrence
Lars Bergström
7. Death in Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Gareth B. Matthews
8. When Death Is There, We Are Not: Epicurus on Pleasure and Death
Phillip Mitsis
9. The Badness of Death and the Goodness of Life
John Broome
10. The Symmetry Problem
Roy Sorensen
11. The Timing Problem
Jens Johansson
12. Death, Value, and Desire
Christopher Belshaw
13.Death and Rational Emotion
Kai Draper
14. Retroactive Harms and Wrongs
Steven Luper
15. Immortality
John Martin Fischer
16. The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency
Connie Rosati
17. The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death
Matthew Hanser
18. Abortion and Death
Don Marquis
19. The Morality of Killing in War
Frances Kamm
20. The Significance of Death for Animals
Alastair Norcross
21. Capital Punishment
Torbjörn Tännsjö
Index