New Directions in Philosophy, Volume XXIII

by French, Peter A.; Wettstein, Howard K.

• ISBN13: 9780631215936
• ISBN10: 063121593X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this annual volume key thinkers explore evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing.

Author Biography

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books and has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized.

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion.

Table of Contents

Metaphysics as Prolegomenon to Ethics	1	(16)
Joel Kupperman
The Meaning of Life	17	(18)
John Kekes
In Defense of a Common Ideal for a Human Life	35	(11)
E. M. Adams
Can the Dead Really Be Buried?	46	(23)
Palle Yourgrau
Later Death/Earlier Birth	69	(15)
Christopher Belshaw
Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity	84	(10)
John Martin Fischer
Daniel Speak
Thick and Thin Selves: Reply to Fischer and Speak	94	(4)
Frederik Kaufman
The Termination Thesis	98	(18)
Fred Feldman
The Evil of Death Revisited	116	(19)
Harry S. Silverstein
Death and Asymmetries in Normative Appraisals	135	(16)
Ishtiyaque Haji
Appraising Death in Human Life: Two Modes of Valuation	151	(21)
Stephen E. Rosenbaum
``For Now Have I My Death'': The ``Duty to Die'' versus the Duty to Help the III Stay Alive	172	(14)
Felicia Ackerman
Taking Life and the Argument from Potentiality	186	(13)
Roy W. Perrett
Privatizing Death: Metaphysical Discouragements of Ethical Thinking	199	(19)
John Woods
Justifications for Killing Noncombatants in War	218	(10)
F.M. Kamm
Capital Punishment and the Sanctity of Life	228	(15)
Philip E. Devine
Aesthetics: The Need for a Theory	243	(12)
Mary Mothersill
Contributors	255