The Metaphysics of death
This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral, issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing.
Print Book, English, 1993
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1993
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 423 pages ; 22 cm.
9780804720465, 9780804721042, 0804720460, 0804721041
26855305
Introduction : death, metaphysics, and morality / John Martin Fischer
Death knocks / Woody Allen
Rationality and the fear of death / Jeffrie G. Murphy
Death / Thomas Nagel
The Makropulos case : reflections on the tedium of immortality / Bernard Williams
The evil of death / Harry S. Silverstein
How to be dead and not care : a defense of Epicurus / Stephen E. Rosenbaum
The dead / Palle Yourgrau
The misfortunes of the dead / George Pitcher
Harm to others / Joel Feinberg
Reasons and persons / Derek Parfit
Why is death bad? / Anthony L. Brueckner and John Martin Fischer
Death and the value of life / Jeff McMahan
Annihilation / Steven Luper-Foy
Epicurus and annihilation / Stephen E. Rosenbaum
Some puzzles about the evil of death / Fred Feldman
Well-being and time / J. David Velleman