Our Stories - Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will

Zusatztext a provocative work whose constitutive essays provide both an overview of the landscape of the debates in which Fischer is engaging... as well as productive engagement in their technicalities... applied philosophy at its best. Informationen zum Autor John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Klappentext This is a collection of essays by noted philosopher John Martin Fischer that seeks to show important connections between the metaphysics of death and free will. John Martin Fischer defends the commonsense views that death can be bad and immortal life can be good, and argues that in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of essays by noted philosopher John Martin Fischer that seeks to show important connections between the metaphysics of death and free will. John Martin Fischer defends the commonsense views that death can be bad and immortal life can be good, and argues that in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction, "Meaning in Life and Death: Our Stories" 2: "Why is Death Bad?" 3: "Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of Experience" 4: "Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity" 5: "Earlier Birth and Later Death: Symmetry Through Thick and Thin" 6: "Why Immortality is Not So Bad" 7: "Epicureanism About Death and Immortality" 8: "Stories" 9: "Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of Narrative" 10: "Stories and the Meaning of Life"

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Martin Fischer, John Martin (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Fischer
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780195374957
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537495-7
• Pagine: 192
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology