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40Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big QuestionsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better if we were immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Life, Death, and Meaning brings together key readings, primarily by English-speaking philosophers, on such 'big questions.'.
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37Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.
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7Two Arguments for the Harmlessness of DeathIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.This chapter contains sections titled: Epicurus' Death is Nothing to Us Argument Lucretius'Symmetry Argument.
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6The Existence of the DeadIn Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.What is death? How is it related to the existence of living things? Is it possible for something to continue its existence while dead? In this chapter I will attempt to answer these questions. I will begin by arguing that death is the loss of life. I will then consider whether living things could cease to exist without dying, and whether they could die yet continue existing. Finally, I will discuss some ways my conclusions bear on creatures like you and me.
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314. AnnihilationIn John Martin Fischer (ed.), The Metaphysics of death, Stanford University Press. pp. 267-290. 1993.
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DeathIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.
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2Problems of International JusticeRoutledge. 1988.When the topic of international justice did arise, discussion rarely got beyond recommendations about how nations could avoid war, as well as suggestions about when a declaration of war was morally justifiable and what sorts of methods might be used in the course of a justifiable war the topics of so-called just-war theory. Such is no longer the case.To be sure, just-war theory is reaching greater states of sophistication,much of it focused around Michael Walzer's book Just and Unjust Wars.Excer…Read more
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28Mortal Objects: Identity and Persistence Through Life and DeathCambridge University Press. 2022.How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist ac…Read more
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7Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead: Kamm, F.M., New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. xii + 330, US$29.95 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (3): 629-629. 2021.
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16A Guide to EthicsMcGraw-Hill. 2001.Provides a concise introduction to ethics or moral philosophy, surveying the main ideas of moral philosophy and discussing its controversial areas. In pursuing ethics' fundamental query, how we ought to live, this book devotes space - two chapters - to the question of what the best life is like.
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45Morality and the Emotions (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3): 725-728. 1994.
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25Death and the Afterlife, written by Samuel SchefflerJournal of Moral Philosophy 14 (1): 113-115. 2017.
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52Justice and Natural ResourcesEnvironmental Values 1 (1): 47-64. 1992.Justice entitles everyone in the world, including future generations, to an equitable share of the benefits of the world's natural resources. I argue that even though both Rawls and his libertarian critics seem hostile to it, this resource equity principle, suitably clarified, is a major part of an adequate strict compliance theory of global justice whether or not we take a libertarian or a Rawlsian approach. I offer a defence of the resource equity principle from both points of view
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31Natural Resources, Gadgets and Artificial LifeEnvironmental Values 8 (1): 27-54. 1999.I classify different sorts of natural resources and suggest how these resources may be acquired. I also argue that inventions, whether gadgets or artificial life forms, should not be privately owned. Gadgets and life-forms are not created (although the term 'invention' suggests otherwise); they are discovered, and hence have much in common with more familiar natural resources such as sunlight that ought not to be privately owned. Nonetheless, inventors of gadgets, like discoverers of certain mor…Read more
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The Epistemic Predicament: A Causal Indicator Analysis of KnowledgeDissertation, Harvard University. 1982.After critically discussing the traditional account of knowledge and alternatives to it, this thesis offers an account of empirical knowledge and rational belief then applies the proposal to various issues about skepticism and epistemic logic. In the first part, I consider the causal theory, defeasibilism, the conclusive reasons analysis and Robert Nozick's tracking theory. In the second part I propose an account of empirical knowledge. S noninferentially knows that h if, and only if, S's belief…Read more
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1The possibility of skepticismIn Luper-Foy Steven (ed.), The Possibility of Knowledge: Nozick and His Critics, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 219. 1987.
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23The Skeptics: Contemporary Essays (edited book)Ashgate Press. 2003.Skepticism and foundations / Gilbert Harman -- How should we respond to scepticism with regard to the senses / Michael Ayers -- Scepticism and justification / Anthony Grayling -- Is knowledge easy--or impossible? Externalism as the only alternative to skepticism / James Van Cleve -- Three attempts to refute skepticism and why they fail / Richard Foley -- How a pyrrhonian skeptic might respond to academic skepticism / Peter Klein -- Skepticism, fallibility and circularity / Keith Lehrer -- Skepti…Read more
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28The Possibility of Knowledge: Nozick and His Critics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 1987.This volume of original essays assesses Nozick's analyses of knowledge and evidence and his approach to skepticism. Several of the contributors claim that Nozick has not succeeded in rebutting the skeptic; some offer fresh accounts of skepticism and its flaws; others criticize Nozick's externalist accounts of knowledge and evidence; still others welcome externalism but attempt to replace Nozick's accounts of knowledge and evidence with more plausible analyses.
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