Our stories :
Fischer, John Martin, 1952-
Our stories : essays on life, death, and free will / John Martin Fischer. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - vii, 184 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Meaning in life and death -- Why is death bad? / John Martin Fischer and Anthony Brueckner -- Death, badness, and the impossibility of experience / John Martin Fischer -- Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / John Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak -- Earlier birth and later death: symmetry through thick and thin / John Martin Fischer -- Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer -- Philosophical models of immortality in science fiction / John Martin Fischer and Ruth Curl -- Epicureanism about death and immortality / John Martin Fischer -- Stories / John Martin Fischer -- Free will, death, and immortality: the role of narrative / John Martin Fischer -- Stories and the meaning of life / John Martin Fischer.
9780195374957 (hbk.) 9780199767236 (pbk.)
2008040481
Metaphysics.
Death.
Life.
Free will and determinism.
BD95 / .F57 2009
113/.8
Our stories : essays on life, death, and free will / John Martin Fischer. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - vii, 184 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Meaning in life and death -- Why is death bad? / John Martin Fischer and Anthony Brueckner -- Death, badness, and the impossibility of experience / John Martin Fischer -- Death and the psychological conception of personal identity / John Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak -- Earlier birth and later death: symmetry through thick and thin / John Martin Fischer -- Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer -- Philosophical models of immortality in science fiction / John Martin Fischer and Ruth Curl -- Epicureanism about death and immortality / John Martin Fischer -- Stories / John Martin Fischer -- Free will, death, and immortality: the role of narrative / John Martin Fischer -- Stories and the meaning of life / John Martin Fischer.
9780195374957 (hbk.) 9780199767236 (pbk.)
2008040481
Metaphysics.
Death.
Life.
Free will and determinism.
BD95 / .F57 2009
113/.8