Life and death : metaphysics and ethics /
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Imprint: | Boston, MA : Blackwell Publishers, c2000. |
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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 |
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.