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010 _a2008040481
020 _a9780195374957 (hbk.)
020 _a9780199767236 (pbk.)
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050 0 0 _aBD95
_b.F57 2009
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100 1 _aFischer, John Martin,
_d1952-
_zFIS
245 1 0 _aOur stories :
_bessays on life, death, and free will /
_cJohn Martin Fischer.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2009.
300 _avii, 184 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 _aMetaphysics.
650 0 _aDeath.
650 0 _aLife.
650 0 _aFree will and determinism.
942 _2ddc
_cBOOKS
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_d5497