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Author:   James Stacey Taylor (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, The College of New Jersey)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780199751136

ISBN 10:   0199751137
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 November 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - James Stacey Taylor Section I: Classical Approaches to Death and their Critics The Damage of Death: Incomplete Arguments and False Consolations - Martha C. Nussbaum The harm of death in Cicero's first Tusculan disputation - James Warren Epicurus on the Value of Death - Kai Draper Section II: Death, and the Value of Death The Evil of Death One More Time: Parallels between Time and Space - Harry S. Silverstein, Adaptation - Steven Luper Death and Desires - Ben Bradley and Kris McDaniel Kripke's Moses - Palle Yourgrau Concepts of Value and Our Thinking about Death - Stephen E. Rosenbaum Section III: Posthumous Harm The Vulnerability of the Dead - Geoffrey Scarre Welfare and Harm After Death - Barbara Baum Levenbook Section IV: Death and Bioethics Doing Posthumous Harm - John Harris Suicide: A Qualified Defense - David Benatar Brain Injury and Survival - Walter Glannon Index

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Readers will find much of interest in this volume. J. A. Kegley, Choice,

Readers will find much of interest in this volume. * J. A. Kegley, Choice, *

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James Stacey Taylor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He primarily writes on autonomy theory, and the metaphysics of death, as well as on how these theoretical issues relate to matters of practical ethical concern.

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