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Confrontations with the reaper : a philosophical study of the nature and value of death / Fred Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Fred, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death.
- Life.
- Abortion.
- Suicide.
- Attitude to Death.
- Medical Subjects:
- Attitude to Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)
- Other Title:
- Philosophical study of the nature and value of death
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting a clear discussion of the philosophical questions surrounding death, the author investigates in a cohesive and comprehensive manner the great metaphysical and moral problems of death.
- Contents:
- The Reaper
- Mysterious and Evil
- The Nature of Death
- The Search for Death Itself
- The Problems of Death
- Conceptual Analysis
- Analysis of Death or Criterion for Death?
- The Biological Concept of Death
- Life as a Part of Death
- Life-Functional Theories of Life
- Life Itself
- Some Preliminary Objections
- Aristotle's Life-Functional Analysis of Life
- Some Modern Life-Functional Analyses of Life
- The Matthews Approach
- Vitalist Theories of Life
- Vitalism
- The Empirical Problem
- The Jonah Problem
- The Failure of Analyticity
- DNA-ism
- Genetic Informationism
- Problems for Genetic Informationism
- The Enigma of Death
- The Gift of Life
- Perrett's Analysis
- The Standard Analysis
- Puzzles About Suspended Animation
- Problems Concerning Fission and Fusion
- The Mystery of Death
- On Dying as a Process
- Two Senses of 'Dying, '
- Some Preliminary Proposals
- Smart's Analysis of Dying2
- Problems for Smart's Analysis
- A New Proposal
- More Mysteries of Dying2
- On Death and Dying2
- The Survival of Death
- The Termination Thesis
- Some Philosophers Who Have Accepted the Termination Thesis
- Doubts About the Termination Thesis
- The Argument from Definition
- The Argument from Dualism
- Corpses and People
- Death and Nonexistence As
- A Materialist Conception of Death
- A New Approach to Death
- The Lifeline
- Death Itself, "a Death," and Being Dead
- Death and Life
- Death and Existence
- Deaths, Lives, and Histories.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028233-9
- 0-19-535833-3
- 1-4294-0594-5
- OCLC:
- 476006671
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