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Zusatztext As a collection on cutting-edge work in metaphysics of death and, to a lesser extent, related ethical issues, this is a solid collection that both engages recent debates and furnishes multiple possible directions that these debates may take. Informationen zum Autor Ben Bradley is Allan and Anita Sutton Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University.Fred Feldman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Jens Johannson is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala Universitet. Klappentext Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics--such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death--as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm, and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses, non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. Zusammenfassung This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Philosophy of Death Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, Jens Johansson 1. When Do Things Die? Cody Gilmore 2. Death and the Disintegration of Personality Fred Feldman 3. The Person and the Corpse Eric Olson 4. Personal Identity and the Survival of Death Dean Zimmerman 5. The Evil of Death: What Can Metaphysics Contribute? Theodore Sider 6. Death and Eternal Recurrence Lars Bergström 7. Death in Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle Gareth B. Matthews 8. When Death Is There, We Are Not: Epicurus on Pleasure and Death Phillip Mitsis 9. The Badness of Death and the Goodness of Life John Broome 10. The Symmetry Problem Roy Sorensen 11. The Timing Problem Jens Johansson 12. Death, Value, and Desire Christopher Belshaw 13.Death and Rational Emotion Kai Draper 14. Retroactive Harms and Wrongs Steven Luper 15. Immortality John Martin Fischer 16. The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency Connie Rosati 17. The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death Matthew Hanser 18. Abortion and Death Don Marquis 19. The Morality of Killing in War Frances Kamm 20. The Significance of Death for Animals Alastair Norcross 21. Capital Punishment Torbjörn Tännsjö Index ...
