Our stories : essays on life, death, and free will / John Martin Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, John Martin, 1952- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Death.

Life.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of essays by John Martin Fischer that seeks to show important connections between the metaphysics of death and free will. Fischer defends the commonsense views that death can be bad and immortal life can be good, and argues that in acting freely, we transform our lives so that our stories matter.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Meaning in Life and Death; 2. Why Is Death Bad?; 3. Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of Experience; 4. 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; Appendix: Philosophical Models of Immortality in Science Fiction; 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; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S

TU; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773117-1

0-19-970530-5

OCLC:

1406788928