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. He is the author of My Way and the co-editor of Introduction to Philosophy, Fifth Edition. Klappentext In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies. Zusammenfassung In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction, "Meaning in Life and Death: Our Stories" 2: "Why is Death Bad?" 3 C "Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of4: "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
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.01.2011
• EAN: 9780199767236
• ISBN: 978-0-19-976723-6
• 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