Life and death : metaphysics and ethics /

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Imprint:Boston, MA : Blackwell Publishers, c2000.
Description:254 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Midwest studies in philosophy, 0363-6550 ; v. 24
Midwest studies in philosophy v. 24
Subject:Life.
Death.
Vie
Mort
Death.
Life.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4585604
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Other authors / contributors:French, Peter A.
Wettstein, Howard K.
ISBN:063121593X (alk. paper)
063121691X (pbk. : alk. paper)
0631221514 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents:
  • Metaphysics as prolegomenon to ethics / Joel Kupperman
  • The meaning of life / John Kekes
  • In defense of a common ideal for a human life / E.M. Adams
  • Can the dead really be buried? / Palle Yourgrau
  • Later death/earlier birth / Christopher Belshaw
  • Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / Jon Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak
  • Thick and thin selves: reply to Fischer and Speak / Frederik Kaufman
  • The termination thesis / Fred Feldman
  • The evil of death revisited / Harry S. Silverstein
  • Death and asymmetries in normative appraisals / Ishtiyaque Haji
  • Appraising death in human life: two modes of valuation / Stephen E. Rosenbaum
  • "For now have I my death": the "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive / Felicia Ackerman
  • Taking life and the argument from potentiality / Roy W. Perrett
  • Privatizing death: metaphysical discouragements of ethical thinking / John Woods
  • Justification for killing noncombatants in war / F.M. Kamm
  • Capital punishment and the sanctity of life / Philip E. Devine
  • Aesthetics: the need for a theory / Mary Mothersill.