Life and death
Subtitle: metaphysics and ethics
By: editors, Peter A. French, Howard K. Wettstein
Contributors: French, Peter A; Wettstein, Howard K
Series: Midwest studies in philosophy -- v. 24
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers; Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Life; Death
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Metaphysics as prolegomenon to ethics / Joel Kupperman; title: The meaning of life / John Kekes; title: In defense of a common ideal for a human life / E.M. Adams; title: Can the dead really be buried? / Palle Yourgrau; title: Later death/earlier birth / Christopher Belshaw; title: Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / Jon Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak; title: Thick and thin selves: reply to Fischer and Speak / Frederik Kaufman; title: The termination thesis / Fred Feldman; title: The evil of death revisited / Harry S. Silverstein; title: Death and asymmetries in normative appraisals / Ishtiyaque Haji; title: Appraising death in human life: two modes of valuation / Stephen E. Rosenbaum; title: "For now have I my death": the "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive / Felicia Ackerman; title: Taking life and the argument from potentiality / Roy W. Perrett; title: Privatizing death: metaphysical discouragements of ethical thinking / John Woods; title: Justification for killing noncombatants in war / F.M. Kamm; title: Capital punishment and the sanctity of life / Philip E. Devine; title: Aesthetics: the need for a theory / Mary Mothersill