Dead Wrong - The Ethics of Posthumous Harm

It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if that person is dead. David Boonin explains the puzzle of posthumous harm and examines its ethical implications for such issues as posthumous organ removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves, and posthumous punishment.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Unfelt Harm


• 3: From Unfelt Harm to Unsatisfied Desire


• 4: From Unsatisfied Desire to Posthumous Harm


• 5: From Posthumous Harm to Posthumous Wrongs

About the author

David Boonin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Department's Center for Values and Social Policy. He is also the editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. Boonin received his BA from Yale University in 1986 and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992. He taught at Georgetown University (1992-4) and Tulane University (1994-8) before taking up his current position at CU in 1998. He also held a visiting position for a semester as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006.

Summary

It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if that person is dead. David Boonin explains the puzzle of posthumous harm and examines its ethical implications for such issues as posthumous organ removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves, and posthumous punishment.

Additional text

David Boonin's Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm is a fantastic contribution to the consistently bourgeoning, and increasingly important, philosophy of death literature.

Product details

• Authors: David Boonin, David (Professor of Philosophy Boonin, David (University of Colorado Boulder) Boonin, Boonin David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198842101
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884210-1
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy