Immortality and the Philosophy of Death

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New York: Rowman & Littlefield International (2015)
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A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us – and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.

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BD444.I46 2016

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1783483849   9781783483839   1783483830   9781783483846
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Epicureanism, Extrinsic Value, and Prudence.Karl Ekendahl & Jens Johansson
Love and Death: The Problem of Resilience.Aaron Smuts
Reconsidering Categorical Desire Views.Travis Timmerman
Victims.Christopher Belshaw
Fearing Death as Fearing the Loss of One's Life: Lessons from Alzheimer's Disease.  (pages 101-114)David Beglin
Love and Death.  (pages 135-156)Daniel Werner
Learning to be Dead: the Narrative Problem of Mortality.  (pages 157-172)Kathy Behrendt
Immortality, Identity, and Desirability.  (pages 191-203)Roman Altshuler
Immortality and the Exhaustibility of Value.  (pages 221-236)Michael Cholbi

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