|
|
Sold Out
Book Categories |
Pt. I Epistemology, Metaphysics and Death 1
A Epistemological Issues 3
1 Paul Edwards (1969). "Existentialism and Death: A Survey of Some Confusions and Absurdities" 3
B Personal Identity and Survival 39
2 Plato. Excerpts from Phaedo 39
3 John Perry (1978). Excerpts from A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality 65
4 Stephen T. Davis (1988). "Traditional Christian Belief in the Resurrection of the Body" 77
C The Nature of Death 99
5 Louis Pojman (1992). "What is Death? The Crisis of Criteria" 99
6 Jeff McMahan (1995). "The Metaphysics of Brain Death" 109
7 Fred Feldman (1992). "The Enigma of Death" 143
Pt. II The Badness of Death 161
A Ancient Reflections on the Badness of Death 163
8 Epicurus. "Letter to Menoeceus" and "The Principal Doctrines" 163
9 Titus Lucretius Carus. Excerpts from Book Three of On the Nature of Things 172
B Some Recent Responses 177
10 Thomas Nagel (1979). "Death" 177
11 Harry S. Silverstein (1980). "The Evil of Death" 185
C The Goodness of Immortality 207
12 Bernard Williams (1973). "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" 207
13 John Martin Fischer (1994). "Why Immortality is Not So Bad" 224
D Gender and the Badness of Death 239
14 Samantha Brennan (2006). "Feminist Philosophers Turn Their Thoughts to Death" 239
Pt. III The Ethics of Killing 247
A Three Case Studies in the Ethics of Killing 249
Abortion 249
15 Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971). "A Defense of Abortion" 249
16 Don Marquis (1989). "Why Abortion is Immoral" 266
17 Walter Sinnet-Armstrong (1999). "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had: A Reply to Marquis on Abortion" 285
Euthanasia 297
18 James Rachels(1975). "Active and Passive Euthanasia" 297
19 Bonnie Steinbock (1979). "The Intentional Termination of Life" 303
Suicide 312
20 Richard Brandt (1975). "The Morality and Rationality of Suicide" 312
21 John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert Nozick, Ronald Dworkin, T. M. Scanlon, and Thomas Nagel (1997). "Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher's Brief" 331
B The Wrongness Of Killing 345
22 Jonathan Glover (1977). "The Sanctity of Life" 345
23 Jeff McMahan (2002). "The Wrongness of Killing and the Badness of Death" 362
24 Samantha Brennan (2001). "The Badness of Death, the Wrongness of Killing, and the Moral Importance of Autonomy" 380
Sources 395
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
William Bright
reviewed Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings on October 16, 2012
Philosophy and Death
This book asks difficult questions about service-learning, some of which are unanswerable. There's no good way to reconcile the academic calendar of universities with the K-12 calendar, and still less with the 12-month, never-ending calendar of real life. So if our university semester ends in late April, but a K-12 school has its big science fair or Shakespeare festival in May, undergraduates wind up abandoning the schools (and children who, in many cases, have become attached to them) just when they are needed most. At the same time, undergraduates have responsibilities on campus and at home as well as at the service-learning site, and financial constraints that make it hard for them to stay around after the end of a semester. Similarly, faculty who are budgeted for research and instruction, but not for service and outreach (especially at R1 institutions), find it difficult to commit time that would normally be dedicated to research or to supervising dissertation students to service, when such service will not be weighted in tenure, promotion, and awards decisions. Faculty also run into financial constraints: many are indebted from graduate school and can't take the financial hit of teaching a May/summer class for free when they could be teaching one for pay.
Login|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CLICK HERE!!! X
You must be logged in to add to WishlistX
This item is in your Wish List
X
This item is in your Collection
Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings
X
This Item is in Your Inventory
Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings
X
You must be logged in to review the productsX
X
X
Add Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings, , Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
X
Add Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings, , Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings to your collection on WonderClub |