The Cambridge companion to life and death / (Record no. 2039)
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| fixed length control field | 01228cam a2200313 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107461666 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 128 St469 L |
| Item number | 101965 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Steven Luper Ed. |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Cambridge companion to life and death / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Steven Luper, Trinity University. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Date of publication | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 352 |
| Accompanying material | 24 cm. |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge companions |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | This volume meets the increasing interest in a range of philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death and the ethics of killing. What is it to be alive and to die? What is it to be a person? What must time be like if we are to persist? What makes one life better than another? May death or posthumous events harm the dead? The chapters in this volume address these questions and also discuss topical issues such as abortion euthanasia and suicide. They explore the interrelation between the metaphysics significance and ethics of life and death and they discuss the moral significance of killing both people and animals and the extent to which death harms them. The volume is for all those studying the philosophy of life and death for readers taking applied ethics courses and for those studying ethics and metaphysics more generally. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction Steven Luper; Part I. The Metaphysics of Life and Death: 1. The nature of life Mark A. Bedau; 2. The nature of people Eric T. Olson; 3. Persistence and time Katherine Hawley; 4. The malleability of identity Marya Schechtman; 5. The nature of human death David DeGrazia; Part II. The Significance of Life and Death: 6. Assessing lives Noah Lemos; 7. On the length of a good life Eyjólfur K. Emilsson; 8. Mortal harm John Martin Fischer; 9. When do we incur mortal harm? Jens Johansson; 10. The symmetry problem James Warren; 11. Posthumous harm Simon Keller; 12. Life's meaning Steven Luper; Part III. The Ethics of Life and Death: 13. Enhancing humanity Nicholas Agar; 14. Procreating David Archard; 15. Abortion Michael Tooley; 16. Killing ourselves Thomas Hill Jr; 17. Killing in self-defense Kadri Vihvelin; 18. Imperfect aiding Matthew Hanser; 19. Killing and extinction Krister Bykvist. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Life. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY -- TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Death. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Luper, Steven, |
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