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• catalog abstract ""What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death, concluding with a novel consequentialist theory about the morality of killing, applying it to such thorny practical issues as abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b3155416.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description ""What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death, concluding with a novel consequentialist theory about the morality of killing, applying it to such thorny practical issues as abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.".
• catalog description "The Reaper--Mysterious and Evil -- The Nature of Death -- The Search for Death Itself -- The Problems of Death -- Conceptual Analysis -- Analysis of Death or Criterion for Death? -- The Biological Concept of Death -- Life as a Part of Death -- Life-Functional Theories of Life -- Life Itself -- Some Preliminary Objections -- Aristotle's Life-Functional Analysis of Life -- Some Modern Life-Functional Analyses of Life -- The Matthews Approach -- Vitalist Theories of Life -- Vitalism -- The Empirical Problem -- The Jonah Problem -- The Failure of Analyticity -- DNA-ism -- Genetic Informationism -- Problems for Genetic Informationism -- The Enigma of Death -- The Gift of Life -- The Biological Concept of Death -- Perrett's Analysis -- The Standard Analysis -- Puzzles About Suspended Animation -- Problems Concerning Fission and Fusion -- The Mystery of Death -- On Dying as a Process -- Two Senses of 'Dying, ' -- Some Preliminary Proposals -- Smart's Analysis of Dying2 -- Problems for Smart's Analysis -- A New Proposal -- More Mysteries of Dying2 -- On Death and Dying2 -- The Survival of Death -- The Termination Thesis -- Some Philosophers Who Have Accepted the Termination Thesis -- Doubts About the Termination Thesis -- The Argument from Definition -- The Argument from Dualism -- Corpses and People -- Death and Nonexistence As -- A Materialist Conception of Death -- A New Approach to Death -- The Lifeline -- Death Itself, "a Death," and Being Dead -- Death and Life -- Death and Existence -- Deaths, Lives, and Histories.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 249 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Confrontations with the reaper.".
• catalog identifier "0195071026 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Confrontations with the reaper.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Confrontations with the reaper.".
• catalog subject "128/.5 20".
• catalog subject "Abortion.".
• catalog subject "BD444 .F44 1992".
• catalog subject "Death.".
• catalog subject "Life.".
• catalog subject "Suicide.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Reaper--Mysterious and Evil -- The Nature of Death -- The Search for Death Itself -- The Problems of Death -- Conceptual Analysis -- Analysis of Death or Criterion for Death? -- The Biological Concept of Death -- Life as a Part of Death -- Life-Functional Theories of Life -- Life Itself -- Some Preliminary Objections -- Aristotle's Life-Functional Analysis of Life -- Some Modern Life-Functional Analyses of Life -- The Matthews Approach -- Vitalist Theories of Life -- Vitalism -- The Empirical Problem -- The Jonah Problem -- The Failure of Analyticity -- DNA-ism -- Genetic Informationism -- Problems for Genetic Informationism -- The Enigma of Death -- The Gift of Life -- The Biological Concept of Death -- Perrett's Analysis -- The Standard Analysis -- Puzzles About Suspended Animation -- Problems Concerning Fission and Fusion -- The Mystery of Death -- On Dying as a Process -- Two Senses of 'Dying, ' -- Some Preliminary Proposals -- Smart's Analysis of Dying2 -- Problems for Smart's Analysis -- A New Proposal -- More Mysteries of Dying2 -- On Death and Dying2 -- The Survival of Death -- The Termination Thesis -- Some Philosophers Who Have Accepted the Termination Thesis -- Doubts About the Termination Thesis -- The Argument from Definition -- The Argument from Dualism -- Corpses and People -- Death and Nonexistence As -- A Materialist Conception of Death -- A New Approach to Death -- The Lifeline -- Death Itself, "a Death," and Being Dead -- Death and Life -- Death and Existence -- Deaths, Lives, and Histories.".
• catalog title "Confrontations with the reaper : a philosophical study of the nature and value of death / Fred Feldman.".
• catalog type "text".