Our stories
Subtitle: essays on life, death, and free will
By: John Martin Fischer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; ew York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780195374957
Subjects: Metaphysics; Death; Life; Free will and determinism
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "meaning in life and death : our stories"; title: John Martin Fischer and Anthony B rueckner, "Why is death bad?", Philosophical studies, vol. 50, no. 2 (September 1986); title: "Death, badness, and the impossibility of experience," Journal of ethics; title: John Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak, "Death and the psychological conception of personal identity," Midwest studies in philosophy, vol. 24; title: "Earlier birth and later death : symmetry through thick and thin," Richard  Feldman, Kris McDaniel, Jason R. Raibley, eds., The good, the right, life and death (Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing, 2006); title: "Why immortality is not so bad," International journal of philosophical studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (September 1994); title: John Martin Fischer and Ruth Curl, "Philosophical models of immortality in science fiction," in George Slusser et. al., eds., Immortal engines : life extension and immortality in science fiction and fantasy (Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1996); title: "Epicureanism about death and immortality," Journal of ethics, vol. 10, no. 4; title: "Stories," Midwest studies in philosophy, vol. 20; title: "Free will, death, and immortality : the role of narrative," Philosophical papers (Special issue : meaning in life) volume 34, number 3, November 2005; title: "Stories and the meaning of life," revised and expanded version of "A reply to Pereboom, Zimmerman, and Smith," part of a book symposium on John Martin Fischer, my way : essays on moral responsibility, philosophical books, vol. 47, no. 3.