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Life and death : metaphysics and ethics
- Title
- Life and death : metaphysics and ethics / editors, Peter A. French, Howard K. Wettstein.
- Publication
- Boston, MA : Blackwell Publishers, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- 254 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Midwest studies in philosophy, 0363-6550 ; v. 24
- Uniform Title
- Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 24.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Metaphysics as prolegomenon to ethics / Joel Kupperman -- The meaning of life / John Kekes -- In defense of a common ideal for a human life / E.M. Adams -- Can the dead really be buried? / Palle Yourgrau -- Later death/earlier birth / Christopher Belshaw -- Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / Jon Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak -- Thick and thin selves: reply to Fischer and Speak / Frederik Kaufman -- The termination thesis / Fred Feldman -- The evil of death revisited / Harry S. Silverstein -- Death and asymmetries in normative appraisals / Ishtiyaque Haji -- Appraising death in human life: two modes of valuation / Stephen E. Rosenbaum -- "For now have I my death": the "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive / Felicia Ackerman -- Taking life and the argument from potentiality / Roy W. Perrett -- Privatizing death: metaphysical discouragements of ethical thinking / John Woods -- Justification for killing noncombatants in war / F.M. Kamm -- Capital punishment and the sanctity of life / Philip E. Devine -- Aesthetics: the need for a theory / Mary Mothersill.
- ISBN
- 063121593X (alk. paper)
- 063121691X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0631221514 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 00058505
- OCLC
- ocm44701136
- SCSB-4017464
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries