The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
(Sprache: Englisch)
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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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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Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics--such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death--as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm, and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses, non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. With chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics, ethics, and conceptual analysis, and designed to give the reader a comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical study of death, this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in philosophy, particularly in ethics and metaphysics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death “
- 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
Autoren-Porträt
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2015, 528 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 24,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, Jens Johansson
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190271450
- ISBN-13: 9780190271459
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This handbook offers a diverse survey of contemporary work with some discussion of its historical touchstones (particularly the thought of Epicurus and Lucretius). Topics range from ordinary-language analysis of the concept of death, and the associated problems personal identity and temporal persistence, to value-oriented examination of whether death is bad or evil, the possibility and value of immortality, and what constitutes the wrongness of killing. Contributors make frequent and helpful use of thought experiments and references to popular culture to ensure that difficult concepts and arguments are clear. The argumentation will be accessible for those possessing basic familiarity with analytic methodology. D.A. Forbes, CHOICE
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