Annihilation the Sense and Significance of Death
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781844651351
Subjects: Death; Immortality
Description: Explores the sense and significance of death in general, and human death in particular. This book examines metaphysical questions about the nature of death and what it is that we are seeking to understand, for example, is the death of the brain a necessary and sufficient condition of death?

"A very good book. It addresses many of the most interesting and important philosophical issues concerning death, is well-informed by the relevant literature, and offers Belshaw's distinctive and suggestive views on a range of issues. Belshaw offers a nice combination of philosophical rigour and a crisp, accessible writing style that should give the book a broad appeal."--John Fischer, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside and editor of The Metaphysics of Death."